Excalibur Deck

THE BLURB:
Make impossible card predictions with Devin Knight's new
Excalibur Deck! Mail a VIP a registered letter and never
touch it again. Have him bring it to the show. Show a deck
of cards to be different and hand them to any spectator (no
stooge) and have them deal the cards face down on the table,
while holding the deck in their hands. They stop anywhere
during the deal and set the card aside. Magician tells them
to check the cards before and after in the deck. This allows
the person see if they had stopped one sooner or later the
selection would have been completely different. The selected
card is turned over, and the VIP opens the envelope and
inside is the MATCHING CARD!

Other ways to do this effect include:

Have an envelope you never touch hanging from the ceiling.
Anybody opens it, and inside is a duplicate of the same card
just selected moments ago.

The freely stopped at card can be predicted in the
classified ads in your local paper.

Important points to remember:

This can be hands-off for the magician. The cards are shown
to be different. The spectators deal and stop anywhere, they
can change their mind and keep dealing. Cards in the deck
before and after can be shown to be different cards.

No Switches

No Skill or Sleights

No Rough and Smooth

No Stuck Together Cards

No Mark Cards

No Long or Short Cards

Magician need never touch the deck once handed to the
spectator. Spectator turns over the selected card. No need
for you ever to touch it. You never touch the envelope
containing the prediction. It is opened by the VIP and the
card is removed by them.

As clean as it gets. Deck can be used in other card
prediction effects. Works perfectly with the IN THE NEWS
effect. Supplied in Bicycle Poker card stock. A true
reputation maker than will fool the wise ones.

MY COMMENTS:
If you purchased Devin Knight's In The News, you already
know about this deck as that routine uses the Excalibur Deck
to accomplish the card selection. It is an elegant
hands-off way of forcing a card. It certainly looks
impossible, but make no mistake in assuming the cards can be
freely handled the spectator. You must still direct them
and they must not freely look through the deck as it is
certainly not a normal deck. In appearance though,
everything looks entirely fair and the directed handling
by the spectator will make it appear that the deck is
certainly normal.

The deck is a combination of two well-known forcing deck
principles. From the description you might be able to guess
what they are. You get the deck in Bicycle Poker card stock
(In The News contains the deck in jumbo size and not in
Bicycle card stock) and a few stapled pages that describe
the workings (it's basically the same as what is included in
In the News). Once you know what this deck is, you can
easily make up new ones yourself when you need to. If you
need to force a card in your act, I certainly would
recommend this deck as an option.