Card Sword, Knife, ...

70 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Skill Demonstration / Card Sword, Knife, ...
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Deviner la pensée d'autrui par un ancien moyen nouvellement perfectionné mutus nomen, final cards found with sword
 		1786
Testament de Jérôme Sharp
163
The Magic Sword "A Card being drawn and replaced, and the Pack flung in the Air, to catch the chosen Card on the point of the Sword"
Related to 1876
Modern Magic
121
The Magic Sword "A Chosen Card Caught on the Point of a Sword"
 		1889
Tricks with Cards
175
A Card caught on the End of a Walking-Stick
1889
Tricks with Cards
178
To Catch a Selected Card on the end of a Walking-Stick (almost) ungaffed stick
Related to 1890
More Magic
95
Mechanical Card Stick presented as different method
 		1890
More Magic
97
Das Aufspießen gezogener Karten auf einen Degen No. 16, four cards
 		1895
Der Kartenkünstler
21
Der Kartendegen No. 12
 		1895
Der Kartenkünstler
81
Der Kartendegen Eine Kartensoirée No. 2
four cards selected and shuffled back by spectator, stabbed at once from card shower
 		Oct. 1895
Der Zauberspiegel (Vol. 1 No. 2)
20
Die Degenkarten
Related to 1896
Der moderne Kartenkünstler
171
Der Kartendegen
1896
Der moderne Kartenkünstler
192
War in Peace card sword with unprepared sword and four cards (standard gaffed one briefly described)
Related to 1897
New Era Card Tricks
82
Samuel "St. Roman" Thiersfeld Der Kartendegen No. 2, card sword with three cards and ungaffed or mechanical sword
 		1899
Jedermann Zauberkünstler!
16
Emil Clauß Another Card Sword with marked card and ungaffed sword
Related to 1899
Jedermann Zauberkünstler!
18
Samuel "St. Roman" Thiersfeld Das bezauberte Ballholz No. 21, three selections appear on flat wooden stick that is pushed in shower of cards
 		1899
Jedermann Zauberkünstler!
65
Emil Clauß Der neue Kartendegen "the new card sword", borrowed deck and marked card
Related to Feb. 1899
Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 5 No. 2)
21
A Selected Card Caught on the Point of a Sword elastic cord
 		1911
Modern Card Manipulation
113
Robert Parrish Simplex Card Stabbing
1939
Do That Again!
40
Laurie Ireland Card and Whiskbroom cards thrown into air and card caught with a whiskbroom
 		1940
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1940)
3
Jean Hugard The Card Sword
Mar. 1950
Hugard's Magic Monthly (Vol. 7 No. 10)
639
Charlie Miller, Harry Mendoza Card on Knife stabbed in air
 		1961
The Magic of Charles Earle Miller
51
Lane Bateman A New Card Spatula using a cake spatula
 		1961
Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1961)
27
Magisches Notizbuch
  • Zwei Ideen zur Vorführung des Kartendegens (Charlie Miller, Harry Mendoza & Faucett Ross in "Genii" July & August 1966)
  • Robert J. Gunther's Würfelkasten ("Genii" May 1966)
  • Ein Ball-Tuch-Effekt von Frank Garcia ("Triks" June 1966)
 		1966
Hokus Pokus (Vol. 27 No. 5&6)
79
Charlie Miller Catching a Chosen Card staging the effect as a good finale
 		1967
Charlie Miller Lecture Notes
23
David Ray Stigmata design cards, one design chosen with card sword (!), design appears on skin with luminous paint
 		1969
HEX!
63
Frederick M. Shields Cagliostro's Sword card sword with business cards
 		1970
Magick (Issue 5)
22
Billy McComb The Williamised Close-up Card Sword with small sword
 		1972
McComb's Magic — 25 Years Wiser
159
Billy McComb William does the Card Sword
  • Another Solution
 		1972
McComb's Magic — 25 Years Wiser
161
Faucett Ross Card Sword
1975
Magic With Faucett Ross
197
The Card Sword
1976
The Big Book of Magic
97
Card Sword various models
 		1978/76
More Classic Magic with Apparatus
110
Ken De Courcy Card Swords for Two presentation with assistant
 		1980
Cards in Cabaret
64
Steve Spillman The Banana Stab fruit thrown in the air and named fruit is pierced with sword
 		1980
The Spill Bar and Grille
16
Nick Pudar Hit the Deck card sword type effect with frisbee
 		Aug. 1986
Apocalypse (Vol. 9 No. 8)
1247
Karl Fulves Black Belt silk initialed and mixed with other silks, tossed up and signed one caught with belt à la card sword, suggestion with other objects
 		1987
Contemporary Handkerchief Magic — Part Two
55
Fantasio Der Karten-Schwert-Stock card sword with cane, two cards are correct last card is wrong, cane changes into silk with printed card
 		1988
Fantasio
44
Harry Anderson Card Sword performing the Card Sword on the street, basic method
 		1993
Wise Guy
44
Mike Bornstein The Spirit of '76 signed card lost, deck tossed in air, folded dollar bill held into shower and a torn corner appears stuck to bill, it belongs to signed card which is missing a corner
 		1994
"Eye Popper" Money Magic Book #5
10
Chad Long The Darted Card card shot out of shower of cards with toy pistol
Also published here 1995
The Lost Cheesy Notebooks — Volume Two
7
Joe Scott The Card Sword
1995
Great Tricks Revisited
111
Pavel Die Karte in der Luft ballon is bursted with needle, and selection appears pierced on needle
 		1995
M wie Magie
8
Chad Long Shot In The Dark "A Chad Long Trick With a Catch"
card shot out of shower of cards with toy pistol
Also published here May 1999
MAGIC (Vol. 8 No. 9)
48
Bill White Tie One Off
  • Covert CardWork
selection lost and deck cased, performer announces to stab card with a sword as spectator drops cards out of case, cards drop tied together except selection which is stabbed alone on the floor
 		May/June 2001
Mr. Gadfly (Vol. 1 No. 1)
37
Basil Smith Card Sticker chewing gum put on jumbo card, used to catch selection out of shower of cards
Also published here Jan. 2002
MAGIC (Vol. 11 No. 5)
70
Jay Sankey Paper Cloud card stabbed with knife
Also published here 2004
Sankey Unleashed
177
Francis Tabary, Jean Ducatillon The Card Sword with a Rope
2004
The Award-Winning Rope Magic of Francis Tabary
254
John Cassidy Ping Pong Paddle Card Sword cards tossed up and smacked with paddle, selection stuck to gum on paddle, gum changes to balloon and is twisted into balloon animal
 		Feb. 2004
MAGIC (Vol. 13 No. 6)
80
Alan Wakeling Spain flowers appear at end of sword, then a flower bouquet, then deck is sprung in the air and all four Aces are impaled by performer
  • Notes (Jim Steinmeyer)
 		Sep. 2007
Genii (Vol. 70 No. 9)
80
Tom Stone Three-Phase Card Stabbing Routine Idea
  • padding
first two stabbed on table with different-sized knives, then card sword
 		2007
Flatland Fever
10
Tom Stone Thoughts and stuff finale idea of Eleven-Card type routines, trying to stab selection out of shower with fork without success (gag)
Inspired by 2007
Flatland Fever
18
Gaëtan Bloom Thoughts on a... Backscratcher
  • Bloomerangs
various ideas
 		Aug. 2007
MAGIC (Vol. 16 No. 12)
96
Jörg Willich Der elektrische Zauberstab selection is found using a stick blender
 		2007
Kreative Zauberei oder Die Kreation von Zauberei
21
Alexander de Cova Snookers card caught by stabbing it with a billiard cue out of card shower
Also published here 2008
Out of my Sporran
15
Alexander de Cova Snookers card caught by stabbing it with a billiard cue out of card shower
Also published here 2010
Better Than Hartz 4
24
Jay Sankey Paper Cloud card stabbed with knife
Also published here 2012
The Definitive Sankey — Volume 1
83
Jay Sankey Bladerunner seven cards are wrapped in napkin and stabbed with nail, then nail is ripped from napkin, six cards are ripped through and a previous selection remains punctured on the nail
Also published here
  • Pulp Fiction DVD, 2010
 2012
The Definitive Sankey — Volume 1
85
Scotty York The Pocket Card Sword close-up
Inspired by
  • John Kennedy's Card Stab
 Mar. 2013
Genii (Vol. 76 No. 3)
61
Mike Caveney Bow & Arrow signed selection lost and deck cased, bow and arrow used to shoot deck out of shower of cards
 		2013
Wonders
345
Alexander de Cova Billard Queue Stechen card caught by stabbing it with a billiard cue out of card shower
Also published here 2015
Burners — Vol. 2
44
John Carney Card Sword comment on the plot
 		2020
Sleights & Insights
297
Christoph Borer Zum Kartendegen on the card sword
  • Der klassische Kartendegen
 		2022
A String of Pearls
70
Christoph Borer Klarinamici card sword using a clarinet
Related to 2022
A String of Pearls
74
Christoph Borer Der Auto-Staubsauger card sword using a vacuum cleaner
 		2022
A String of Pearls
77
Christoph Borer Baloo(n) card sword using a balloon sword
 		2022
A String of Pearls
78
Christoph Borer Thrill Drill card sword using a drill
 		2022
A String of Pearls
83
Chris Ramsay, Daniel Garcia Sticky Hand Job sticky hand toy used to catch card out of shower à la card sword
 		2022
Conundrum (Issue 1)
70
Basil Smith Card Sticker chewing gum put on jumbo card, used to catch selection out of shower of cards
Also published here 2022
Talk About Tricks (Issue 1)
42
Aurelio Paviato Card Duel
  • A Study of Impalement
signed card stabbed from shower with pocket knife
Inspired by
  • John Kennedy's Card Stab, 1978
 2022
Studies in Deception
35
Jonathan Pendragon Cyrano, or: How to Fill the Stage with a Card Sword and a Deck of Cards
  • Panmagium
presentation for card sword, reciting poem
 		Jan. 2024
Genii (Vol. 87 No. 1)
64
Christoph Borer Klarinetten Degen only reference, card sword using a clarinet
Related to 2024
Inventum
136