The Top Change

Monarch of Card Sleights

2017
Written by "Magic" Christian Stelzel
Work of "Magic" Christian Stelzel
173 pages (Hardcover), published by Hermetic Press
Illustrated with photographs
Language: English
32 entries
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Creators Title Comments & References Page Categories
"Magic" Christian Stelzel Thanks to...
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"Magic" Christian Stelzel Foreword
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"Magic" Christian Stelzel A Sleight History on the top change, glide and related switches
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"Magic" Christian Stelzel The General Concept of the top change
 		17
"Magic" Christian Stelzel Bottop Credit Information
18
Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser The Top Change
25
The Classic Bottom Change
35
"Magic" Christian Stelzel My Improvement for the Bottom Change
40
The Packet Top Change
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"Magic" Christian Stelzel, Martin A. Nash Variation of the Marlo Change
Inspired byRelated to 52
Bernard Bilis, "Magic" Christian Stelzel Bernard Bilis's Top Change of One of Two Cards
Inspired by
  • Notes de Conference (1984, p. 32)
Variations 		57
"Magic" Christian Stelzel Top Change with the Second Card from the Top of the Deck
Related to 65
"Magic" Christian Stelzel Top Change with the Third Card from the Top of the Deck... and Further
Related to 69
"Magic" Christian Stelzel To Change Two Cards, One after the Other, with the Top Two Cards of the Deck
Inspired by 75
"Magic" Christian Stelzel The Bottom Change and Back
Inspired by 79
"Magic" Christian Stelzel The Continuous Bottom Change
84
"Magic" Christian Stelzel The Bottom-to-Bottom Change
Related to 88
"Magic" Christian Stelzel A Face-Down Card Is Exchanged While the Deck Is Held Face Up using Bottom-to-Bottom Change
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"Magic" Christian Stelzel A Face-Up Card Is Exchanged While the Deck Is Held Face Down using Bottom-to-Bottom Change
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"Magic" Christian Stelzel Face-Up Bottom-to-Bottom Change
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"Magic" Christian Stelzel Multiple Bottom Change, a Card at a Time similar to David Williamson's Monte phase in his Cocktail Dazzler
Inspired by 103
"Magic" Christian Stelzel The Packet Bottom Change
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"Magic" Christian Stelzel Bottom- and Top-Change Combinations
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"Magic" Christian Stelzel To Change Each of the Four Aces with the Top Card of the Deck: A Solution to the Hofzinser Ace Problem
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"Magic" Christian Stelzel The Face-Up Top Change faces towards performer
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"Magic" Christian Stelzel Face-Up Top Change with the Face of the Deck in View
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"Magic" Christian Stelzel Bottom Change with a Card Turned Face Up on the Face-Down Deck switched-out card ends up in center
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"Magic" Christian Stelzel My Four-Ace Switch Aces apparently pushed in different parts, but switched out at beginning, also as a strip-out switch in which a spectator finds the four Aces
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"Magic" Christian Stelzel Another New Four-Ace Switch, with the Deck Face Up with assembly application
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"Magic" Christian Stelzel A Third New Packet Switch for Ace Assemblies, with the Deck Face Down
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"Magic" Christian Stelzel Other Techniques
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Denis Behr, "Magic" Christian Stelzel The Literature many references
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Data entered by Denis Behr, February 2018.