Face up on the Deck

70 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Appearance & Production / Face up on the Deck
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Unknown Third Method air-pressure turnover
 		1876 Modern Magic 45
Unknown Umschlagen einer Karte air-pressure turnover
Related to 1896 Der moderne Kartenkünstler 22
Unknown Der Kartensprung card face-down on table, deck dropped on it, card jumps face-up to top of deck
Related to 1896 Der moderne Kartenkünstler 63
Unknown The Revolution air pressure turnover
 		1897 New Era Card Tricks 43
Unknown The Appearance of Desired Cards top card of shuffled deck changes into any named card
Related to 1897 New Era Card Tricks 64
S. v. S. Ueberraschungen mit Hülfe der Mnemotechnik III. three cards chosen, one card appears face-up on face of deck, other two cards named
 		Sep. 1901 Die Zauberwelt (Vol. 7 No. 9) 139
Unknown Card Discovered by Sense of Touch touched card appears face-up on deck after shuffle
 		1909 The Art of Magic 98
Laurie Ireland On the Bottom, on Top and in the Pocket
1935 Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1935, "New Card and Coin Manipulation") 23
Unknown Introducing the Ambitious Card Trick card appears face-up on deck during springing of cards, application of Spring Palm
 		1936 Card Manipulations (Issue 5) 132
Tony Kardyro "Coming Thru!" top card placed on table, deck on top, selection appears face-up on top via air pressure turn-over, featuring a second deal with right-hand end grip and buckling action
Inspired by 1955 Kardyro's Kard Konjuring 26
Carmen D'Amico, Edward Marlo B. As a Production of Selection appears on top of deck
 		1959 Seconds, Centers, Bottoms 75
Edward Marlo Visible Tilt "Twenty-Second Effect", card pushed face-up in center appears on top
 		1962 Tilt! 27
Harry Lorayne Outrageous Revelation deck held under table for a second, selection appears on deck face up
 		1967 Deck-Sterity 40
Edward Marlo Uses of the Acrobatic Card - Effect 1 selection appears face up on deck, see also page 26
 		1968 On the Acrobatic Cards 14
Edward Marlo Effect 2 two cards pop face up on top of deck
 		1968 On the Acrobatic Cards 14
Edward Marlo Effect 3 selection appears face up on deck, with clean-up, see also page 29
 		1968 On the Acrobatic Cards 14
Edward Marlo Effect 9 free selection pops face-up on deck, see also page 29
 		1968 On the Acrobatic Cards 18
Jerry K. Hartman Over the Top selection visually appears face up on top of deck two times
 		1971 Odd Lifts 18
Bill Simon, Frank Garcia Control Knockout card is produced on top via slip cut two times
Related to
  • "Slip Cut Effect" (Ed Marlo, The Gen, April 1956)
 1972 Million Dollar Card Secrets 45
Mike Rogers The Zany Gaff deck placed on table, covered with handkerchief, selection comes face up to top, magnetic thread gimmick between hands
 		1972 Kabbala — Volume 1 (Vol. 1 No. 12) 93
Unknown, Theodore Annemann Flip-Over air pressure turnover, with Annemann variation
Also published here 1972 The Living End 5
Eddie Joseph The Renegade air-pressure turnover
 		1972 The Living End 106
Bernard Bilis Rising in China Card appears face up under Chinese coin on deck (original idea for gimmick: Tosheroon by Bob Dreibeck, marketed by Harry Stanley.)
Inspired by 1976 Close Up, French Style 30
A. Berkeley Davis Palm Spoof card vanishes an reappears with palm presentation, ten vanish
 		1977 Card Cavalcade Four 90
Ken Krenzel The Squeeze Steal
Related to 1978 The Card Classics of Ken Krenzel 189
Unknown Die sich drehende Karte air-pressure turnover, with Stripper Deck
 		1978 Einfach Wunderbar — Wunderbar Einfach 46
Steve Beam Rapid Transit card appears face-up on the deck (using one handed top palm) vanishes again (face up Tent vanish) and appears face up in the center of the deck
Also published here 1978 They Don't Make Trap Doors Like They Used To Do Or You Too Can Walk On Water 25
Earl Nelson Sleeve Aces
Inspired byVariationsAlso published here 1979 Variations 53
Edward Marlo An Optical Illusion selection appears and vanishes on tabled deck, using card clip
 		1980 Marlo's Magazine Volume 4 106
Steve Beam Rapid Transit card appears face-up on top of deck (one-hand top palm as change), is taken and vanished, reappears reversed in center
Also published here 1981 Teaching an Old Deck New Tricks 15
A. R. Mousley Bewitched Board reversed card appears on top of deck when deck is stroked with a board, selection written on board
 		1982 Spell-Binder (Vol. 2 No. 17) 315
Richard Kaufman "No Palm" Production
Inspired by 1984 Abstract 12
Unknown Ambitious Card Move card appears face-up on top as cards are sprung in other hand
 		1985 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 5) 27
Alvin C. Thompson Thompson Turnover "Al Thompson" = Alvin?
alternative to air pressure turnover, right little finger under card
Related to 1985 The Fred Braue Notebooks (Issue 5) 27
Richard Sanders A Not so Humble Beginning getting into a routine, selection suddenly appears face-up on deck
 		1987 When Creators Collide... 41
Jay Sankey, Richard Sanders Ending #1: Face-up Finale deck rubber-banded, thrown in other hand, selection appears face-up on deck
Related to 1987 When Creators Collide... 43
Larry Jennings Vanish an Reappearance of a Card visual
 		1988 The Cardwright 25
Edward Marlo Visual Change - Appearance - Vanish face card of deck changes just with a wrist turn and back, different applications
  • Impromptu Change
Also published here
  • The New Tops, Feb. 1968
 1988 M.I.N.T. — Volume I 351
Edward Marlo The Turnover Card peeked at card appears face up on top during dribble on table
Related to 1989 So Soon? 10
Bruce Cervon Trick Applications for the Free-Turn Pass - As An Ace Production appears face-up on top
 		1990 Ultra Cervon 140
Ken Krenzel The Profoundly Flippant Reverse one-handed effect in which peeked-at card appears on deck, vanishes, reappears face up in center
 		1990 Close-up Impact! 124
Ken Krenzel Two in a Hammock two selections appear on deck one by one one-handed, then vanish and travel into pocket, two double facers
 		1990 Close-up Impact! 130
Harry Levine Leipzig's Opener card appears on top of the deck in spectator's hand, as a last phase in Leipzig's Slap Ace Routine
Related to 1992 The Trapdoor — Volume Two (Issue 42) 754
Steve Draun, David Solomon The Midnight Eclipse Card appears face up on Deck
 		1993 Secrets Draun from Underground 40
Ernest Earick Kato-nine-tails deck tabled, slapping hand empty
 		1993 By Forces Unseen 91
Dan Block Second Card Palm Aces Aces appear one by one on top of deck
 		1993 Card File 115
Dan Block Palm Cut Revelation
1993 Card File 231
Roger Crosthwaite Visual Replacement LTP steal from table edge
 		1994 Roger's Thesaurus 21
Al Leech, Earl Nelson, Edward Marlo Aces Off the Cuff two black Aces are produced, transform into red two Aces and reappear from the sleeves, "sleeve aces"
Inspired by 1996 Card College — Volume 2 265
Ken Krenzel Change at a Rapid Clip four aces appear face up on the deck one by one
 		1997 Ingenuities 48
Steve Mayhew Flash Ace Production as four small packets are cut from deck, an Ace appears face up on top of each
 		1998 Labyrinth (Issue 8 - Part 1) 25
Baltazar Fuentes The Fuentes Rise face-up face, using pass and palm
 		1999 Arempi II 47
Ellis Stanyon The Revolution No. 1, air pressure turnover
  • Supplementary Note (details and reference by Karl Fulves)
Related to 1999 Ellis Stanyon's Best Card Tricks 19
Gene Maze Facer K.M. move subtlety
 		July 2000 Genii (Vol. 63 No. 7) 66
Neal Elias A Useful Utility For The Twirl Pass
  • Bottom Card Face-Up To Top
selection appears face-up on top, or face-up top card transforms
Inspired byVariations 2001 New Card Controls 41
Neal Elias A Twirl Reverse top card turned over to top with all-around square-up cover
 		2001 New Card Controls 63
John Carney, Nate Leipzig, Michael Skinner Leipzig-Skinner Surprise selection appears on face of deck, penetrates hand, appears face-up on deck
Inspired by 2002 The Book of Secrets 206
Earl Nelson Sleeve Aces
Also published here 2003 Variations Revisited 67
Jerry K. Hartman Covered, Up! selection appears face up on deck while covered with handkerchief
Inspired byAlso published here 2005 Penumbra (Issue 9) 9
Brian Vanderkolk Turn-Style Change card change or production on the face of the deck, partial side steal with wrist turn
 		Aug. 2006 Antinomy (Vol. 2 No. 3) 36
Jerry K. Hartman Covered, Up selection is lost in deck and deck wrapped in handkerchief, spectator forcibly sets wrapped deck down on table and selection is found face up on top of deck
Inspired byAlso published here 2007 Card Dupery 144
Steve Reynolds Neo Slap Aces Aces appear on deck one by one
Inspired by 2010 Trench Work 22
Gabi Pareras Aparición Flash cards dribbled on the table, four Aces appear face up on top
 		2012 El Manuscrito (Vol. 5 No. 19) 599
Tomas Blomberg ProHof from three selected cards spectator choose one, the three cards turn into the other three of same value, and selection appears face-up in the middle of the deck
 		2014 Blomberg Laboratories 174
Frank Shields Ambitious Card Bit card appears face-up on tabled deck
from a letter by Ed Marlo to Jeff Busby (June 8, 1979)
Related to 2017 Facsimile (Issue 6) 4
Roy Walton Navarac production of four Aces, reversed Caravan move
 		2017 Secrets 86
Jeremiah Zuo Production on Top card appears on top of deck, in the hands
Inspired by 2019 Confessions of A Magic Fan 4
Tom Gagnon About Face selection lost, wrong card found a few times then selection suddenly is face up on top
Inspired byAlso published here
  • The Blueprint, Vol. 4 No. 5, 1977
 2019 Gagnon Unfiltered 20
Tom Gagnon Veiled Reversal Aces lost and deck spread on table, covered with handkerchief and gathered, Aces then reversed on top of deck
 		2019 Gagnon Unfiltered 445
Benjamin Barnes Face-up Free Fall selection buried face-up in face-down deck, deck dropped and card appears face-up on top as in air-pressure revelation
 		July 2021 Elixir (Vol. 3 No. Special Chicago Issue #1) 1