21 entries in Cards / Sleights / Miscellaneous / Airing the Deck (Inflated Deck)
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Martin Gardner Airing the Deck deck is aired and held in proper angle to simulate full deck
Nov. 1954
The New Phoenix (Issue 321)
92
Jerry Andrus Deck Up the Sleeve
1956 132
Keikan Miyanaka Non-Prediction all the cards from one color that match a selection vanish from the deck
1988 109
Keikan Miyanaka Blown-Up Deck half deck is "aired" to look like a full deck
1988 110
David Harkey Thumper deck vanishes except selection, it is found in case
Related to 1991 188
David Harkey Nonplused two decks placed into a single card case
1991 195
David Harkey Blockbuster deck penetrates into card case, ungaffed, pass application
Related to 1991 206
David Acer Airing with Miniature Cards
1995 130
David Harkey Toppler selection put in center, top half of the deck vanishes, leaving the selection on top, other half found in pocket
Related to Jan. 1995
Magic (Vol. 4 No. 5)
62
Doug Conn The Inflated Deck as a Triumph convincer, credit information on p. 14
1999 13
Lin Searles Inflated Deck illusion
1999
Labyrinth (Issue 12)
44
Martin Gardner Airing the Deck
Related to 2002 88
Earl Nelson, R. Paul Wilson Smoking the Deck blowing through an inflated deck to break it in more quickly
Dec. 2002
Magic (Vol. 12 No. 4)
73
Martin Gardner, Jerry Andrus Airing the Deck
2006 131
Edward Marlo Overhand Cull Shorts Aces cut short, airing deck to let cards fall out
Also published here 2007 25
Jan Logemann The Famous 100-Card Trick (The Unfamous 100-Card Trick)
finale for Williamson's effect, surplus cards vanish after inflated deck climax
Inspired by 2013 4
Lin Searles Inflating the Deck "fluffing" one third of the deck to make it look bigger, credited to Lin Searles
Also published here
  • Lin Searles, The Card Expert (1938)
2019 144
Inflated Side-Cut inflated half pushed into side of other half
2020 827
Inflated Distribution Side-Cut inflated half pushed into side of other half to distribute top cards widely
2020 981
Steve Forte Distribution Faro bottom cards of one half aired to space them out more in a single faro
2020 1029
Martin Gardner Airing the deck
2021 150