Miscellaneous

64 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Transformation / Single Card / Miscellaneous
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Eddie Clever Encore Voodoo card is put in envelope with ribbon band and hidden by spectator, light out, performer suddenly has card and mutilates it, when spectator retrieves card it has same appearance, dressed up Chinese Laundry Ticket
Related toAlso published here 1938 The Jinx 51-100 (Issue 51) 358
Oscar "Oscarelli" Rey Magie mit Blitzpapier ideas with flash paper
  • I. Die geheimnisvolle Tafel
  • II. Pique Ass
  • III. Das Geld des Teufels
  • V. Ein Schlusseffekt
  • VI. Die Meteorkarte
Related to Sep. 1941 Hokus Pokus (Vol. 3 No. 9) 3
Unknown Card and Thread wrong card is pierced with a needle and threaded, when thread is pulled, right card hangs on on it, from "The Secret Out"
 		1944 The Phoenix 51-100 (Issue 62) 255
Eddie Clever Encore Voodoo card is put in envelope with ribbon band and hidden by spectator, light out, performer suddenly has card and mutilates it, with matching corner
Also published here 1944 Practical Mental Effects 129
Arthur H. Buckley The Aces and the Chosen Card Experiment No. 30 - aces are lost, selection appears on top and changes to aces, repeated three times
 		1946 Card Control 190
John A. M. Howie Changeable card changes four times, with sucker elements
 		1951 The Phoenix 201 — 250 (Issue 221) 883
Don Tanner Blank card turns blank inside card box
 		1962 Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962) 58
Piet Forton Mid Air Throw Color Change Color change based on Piet Forton popout move
Related to 1967 Piet Forton Lecture Notes 15
Bill Derman Short Division Seven in Diamonds put in envelope and cut in two, in one half is half a Three of Diamonds, in the other Four of Diamonds, the two selections, see also p. 388
 		Winter 1968 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 1-4 (Vol. 4 No. 2nd Folio) 226
Jack Avis The Wishing Envelope gimmick envelope, including three routines with it
  • The Wishing Envelope
  • The Jokers Wild
  • Transposed Marlo Reverse
Also published here Oct. 1975 Pabular (Vol. 2 No. 2) 161
Karl Fulves The Joker's Revenge joker cut up in pieces, pieces change to jack and joker is whole again
Related to 1975 Kannibal Kards 6
Bruce Cervon Card Case Switch gaffed card/transformation happens isolated in card box, card under cellophane
 		1976 Card Secrets of Bruce Cervon 6
Karl Fulves Hallucinating Pip optical illusion in which center pip of ace of diamonds stretches and shrinks
 		1979 Shape Changers 34
Al Leech, Martin Gardner A Typographical Error variation on "Major Surgery", changing back kicker
 		1980 Al Leech's Legacy 18
Al Leech Crooked Card card changes to a crooked card
 		1980 Al Leech's Legacy 38
Terry LaGerould Minus Mustache featuring the mustaches of the king pictures
 		Mar. 1981 Apocalypse Vol. 1-5 (Vol. 4 No. 3) 466
Ben Harris Images two Aces, they change to the two missing suits in various ways, then selection appears
 		1981 Magic from which Memories are Made! 54
Jack Hughes Card Go card vanishes in frame
  • To Cause a Card Placed in the Frame to Change to Another
  • Giant Card to Bridge Size Card Variation
 		1981 Jack Hughes World of Magic — Volume One 108
Charlie Miller Torn Transformation corner is torn off a card, both card and corner transform
 		1983 The New York Magic Symposium — Collection 2 39
Karl Fulves Two Faced face of picture card changes direction in envelope with cut-out hole for face
 		1983 Ace Machine 6
Paul Harris Card Cuffs card with holes torn in is put on thumbs and changes into signed selection
Also published here 1983 The Magic Hedonists Brainstorm In The Bahamas 55
Jon Racherbaumer The So-So Notion deck rubbed with case, face card changes, a card travels into case
Variations 1984 The Collected Almanac (Vol. 2 No. Summer Extra) 219
Bob Stencel Once Torn, Twice Restored first selection reverses itself again and again, is torn and changes to second selection, double facer
Related to 1985 The Collected Almanac (Vol. 3 No. 31, 32 & 33) 328
Nick Pudar Perspective picture of joker gets smaller and bigger on card
 		1985 Best of Friends — Volume II 253
Martin Lewis The Kings Cut Out Figure of King of Diamonds disappears, leaving a card with a hole. King appears stuck on Queen of Diamonds
 		1985 Martin's Miracles 59
Gaëtan Bloom The Card on the Human Wall Deck thrown on a styrofoam board hung on spectator's back as a human wall, selected card is left stuck on wall. Card then changes into second selection
 		1986 Gaetan Bloom 86 6
Thomas Hierling Wrong Card...?! Two of Clubs chosen, Four of Clubs produced and torn in two, half card changes into miniature Two of Clubs, then grows to normal size
Inspired by 1987 New Wave Close-Up 52
Karl Fulves Visible Spread Color Change deck spread face-down on table, card waved over spread and spread visibly changes back color, or single card turns over or changes in middle of spread, posed as a problem
 		1987 Secret Session — Part Three 80
Eugene Burger A Bizarre Ritual burned out pentagram appears in selected tarot card
 		1989 The Experience of Magic 111
Karl Fulves Love Match two picture cards look away from each other and then towards each other
 		1989 Easy-to-Do Card Tricks for Children 21
Jon Racherbaumer Examination of a So-So Notion deck rubbed with second case, face card changes, a card travels into case
Related to 1992 The Collected Almanac (Issue ) xliii
Tommy Wonder, Bob Stencel Déjà ReVurse first selection reverses itself again and again, is torn and changes to second selection
Inspired byAlso published here 1996 The Books of Wonder — Volume 1 167
Paul Harris Card Cuffs card with holes torn in is put on thumbs and changes into signed selection
Also published here 1996 The Art of Astonishment — Book 3 (Issue Brainstorm in the Bahamas) 139
Karl Fulves Skeleton Crew four kings in one case, four jacks in another, king thought of, performer transfers one in jacks case, it's thought-of one and gets a big hole in the middle
 		1997 The Vampire Papers 105
Simon Lovell Vanishing Moustache moustache on printing of one of the four Kings vanishes
 		1997 Simon Says! 107
Simon Aronson Head Over Heels, into a Visual Change
Inspired by 2001 Try the Impossible 100
Jay Sankey Bloodhound Coin that is rubberbanded to the face of the deck finds selection as card on the face changes into selection. Then, coin is rubberbanded onto the deck and penetrates into the deck, found next to selection.
 		2003 Twenty Years Of Magic (Issue Tricks of the Trade) 39
Jay Sankey Pandora's Envelope Indifferent card in black envelope (with hole) changes into selection, then second signed selection appears visually in envelope
 		2003 Twenty Years Of Magic (Issue Sankadelic Magic) 52
Dai Vernon Separation Move
Related to 2003 Card Conspiracy — Vol. 2 35
David Acer Open Time Traveller Writing appears on the back of selected card "You Will Pick This Card"
 		2004 Random Acts of Magic 116
Ron Frost Jumbo Coin Card Mini card stuck to a jumbo coin changes from first selection to second selection
 		2004 After The Force 83
Bob Ostin Bandinage cards is wrapped with rubber band, card on front changes to performer's and to spectator's card, gaff with pull
 		2005 Bob Ostin — A Lifetime of Magical Inventions 59
Derek Dingle, Karl Fulves Chump Change Ten to Ace straight in mixed red suits, one freely chosen and put in deck, found again face-up and value of bottom card after dealing top four card face-down on table, those cards are Royal Flush in Spades except for the chosen value which changes to Spades
  • For The Expert (different finish)
 		2006 Prolix (Issue 2) 81
Jack Parker Trial Separation Two spectators selects a card each - realise they both somehow impossibly selected the same card, and Joker changes into selection.
Variations 2007 52 Memories 95
Robert E. Neale My Lady Truth Picture of old lady becomes picture of young lady, optical illusion. Has second version using a printed playing card
 		2008 This Is Not a Book 44
Oliver Meech Correctional Facility... the playing card version Date written on card is wrong, changes to correct date
 		2009 The Plot Thickens 18
Karl Fulves Blankety Blank "Color Erase"
card with open cut-outs, put on deck, it becomes blank, then it changes into named Two value
 		2009 Xtra Credit (Issue 3) 12
Tyler Wilson Shrinkage card is openly edgemarked for its full length, the mark visibly shrinks and transforms into shorter mark
 		2010 Reinventing the Real 38
Tyler Wilson Filler card with text on both sides, one side changes
 		2010 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 8 41
Steve Reynolds For Marlo's Anchored Add On using "S. P. Hideout"
Inspired by 2010 Six Deep — Part One 10
David Acer, Bedros "Spidey" Akkelian Squancho 2.0 stickman drawn on top card, wrong card found by this card, card turned face-up and it now is selection itself, stickman changes into disfigured stickman after clapping the card
Also published here May 2010 Genii (Vol. 73 No. 5) 16
David Acer, Bedros "Spidey" Akkelian Squancho 2.0 stickman drawn on top card, wrong card found by this card, card turned face-up and it now is selection itself, stickman changes into disfigured stickman after clapping the card
Also published here 2011 More Power to You 87
Hiroshi Sawa ツインズ (Twins) Deck is shuffled, spectator deals and magician says stop. Locates two cards with pictures of two twins. Mistake is rectified via color change.
 		2013 Magic of Dr. Sawa (澤浩の奇術) 111
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Ad Copy blendo, spectator ends up with business card
 		2014 Card Men 27
Tomas Blomberg Mxyzptlk word "mirror" written on back of card, another chosen word on another card, both words change to mirror writing
Inspired by 2014 Blomberg Laboratories 222
Bébel La Dame de Trèfle Qui Pique Mon Coeur transformation in the hand of spectator into selection, apparently only suit is changed
 		2014 Notes de Conférence 2 10
Andi Gladwin Jack's in the Box two spectators select a card from upper and lower half of deck with case between the halves, both have chosen the same cards which is found in case
Inspired by Aug. 2015 Genii (Vol. 78 No. 8) 41
Alexander Hansford Mystery Card Card is selected and signed, odd-backed card shown to be the same card with different signature, signature then changes into spectator's signature
 		2016 Sprezzatura 22
Jim Steinmeyer Epidemic
  • Conjuring
packet of cards with a pink dot on the back of each is shown, card chosen, it gets lots of pink dots on them, using apparatus box
Inspired by
  • Metamorpho Spots, 1960s
 Oct. 2016 Genii (Vol. 79 No. 10) 32
Jay Jayaraman Santeria Joker scorched with lighter, scorching travels to selection
 		Dec. 2017 Genii (Vol. 80 No. 12) 52
Harapan Ong 2 + 2 = 4 Four value torn in half, both halves change into a Two each
 		2018 Principia 203
Sungwon Kim Broken Canvas blank card is torn in quarters and torn pieces transform into quarters of a playing card
 		2018 Seven Thoughts 22
Steve Beam Neck-Ringer only court cards, one is selected with a dice and suddenly looks into other direction
 		2018 Semi-Automatic Card Tricks — Volume 11 271
Unknown Center Insertion packet placed on top of deck, bottom card secretly inserted in center
 		2020 Mr. Jennings Takes It Easy 214