Deck to Wallet by Elijah | Henry Harrius Presents

Hello, welcome to Real Magic Review. My name is Steve Faulkner and this is Deck to Wallet. I've heard so much about this, but what do I think about it? Before we do this usual stuff, like and subscribe. If you like it and you want to subscribe to it, go to stevefaulkner.com forward slash newsletter. stevefaulkner.com forward slash newsletter. That's the best place to go for all the podcasts. And there are some corkers coming up and for when I drop a review and for when I go live. And for new products, speaking of which, I've finally, after many, many years and 400-ish videos, Completed my Royal Road to Card Magic course. Every single thing in that book, filmed and taught, and I'm very happy with it, so please go to stevefaulkner.com forward slash Royal Road. I want you to remember this image of me holding this wallet with a very special folded card here. This card is very important at the end. You'll know why later. And of course, it's a card trick, so I want you to pick a card. When I shuffle the cards, you just need to say stop. So let's say they stop at here and they remember this card, which is the nine of diamonds. We'll lose it back in the pack like so. To find your card, we're going to travel back in time. When I snap my fingers, time goes back one minute. One minute ago, I'm actually holding my wallet. Remember, this photo card is in my wallet before you pick the card. And of course, this is your nine of diamonds. I didn't go to Blackpool, lots of people talking about it, and I had a vision of what this is, and I thought, how's that going to work? And I got this, and because I'm 53, I was a little bit confused, and I've found that this is going to be one of those things that if you're a certain age, and you haven't seen the demos, if anyone's seen the demos, fine, you're going to go, I'll explain. So when I think of a wallet, I either think of a magic wallet like which is obviously massive not anymore really but a nice proper you know folding wallet or whatever and then I see this I go well that's not a wallet is it? No it isn't Steve if you're old. Now I did check this is what a sort of credit card wallet does look like so I have to get over that and I will say full disclosure I've shown this to a few people I've shown it to a couple of lay people I have not taken it out to a gig. So I think you're going to have to make your mind up about whether you like this without me telling you whether you should like it, which should be the way anyway, right? But if you like the trick and you see it and you go, that's really cool, which I would say 60, 70% of the people I've shown you have, and 30% of people have gone, what is that though? Because they're old and they get out their old wallets. Just to interrupt you for a minute so we can keep doing this, here is a word A word from our very, very lovely sponsor. So, it's a really easy one to review, really, because it does what it says really well. Because this is from Elijah, but it comes from Henry Harris Presents. Henry is very careful about what he puts forward. There isn't anything that I'd say hasn't worked properly or that I don't like. So, it's solid. It's made really well. It's going to last you for ages. There's nothing to really fall apart or anything like that in it. It is, in one way, easy. In another way, a bit knacky. This isn't. An easy thing to do, I don't think, to make it look really cool. So the way, what you have to do is you have to learn to shuffle a pack, which if you shuffle cards constantly every day like I do, it feels really weird and different. So you might even be better off coming into this if you don't shuffle cards loads. It's a bit like when I went snowboarding and I was a skateboarder. I felt like I was on a skateboard, started steering it like I was on a skateboard, and broke a majority of my ribs and my shoulder, which I've never... Never quite been the same. And I've got a video on that online somewhere. Anyway, it's a bit like that. If you're so used to handling cards a certain way and all of a sudden you're shuffling in a different way, it took me a long time to feel confident with that. But what I also realised is that lay people watching, they don't know how I shuffle cards. So if I was a bit edgy with the shuffle as I was chatting, because it is, you've got to learn to handle this and feel comfortable with it, which is fine if you can do it in front of the telly And do this forcing technique which there are two ways there's one's easier and one's slightly more difficult and of course I went for the slightly more difficult one for no reason whatsoever then they don't know how you shuffle so if you're kind of pausing for a second and carrying it's fine actually my son said I said to him afterwards did you see anything I did really badly for him and he said no like I totally had no question that was a deck of cards and he's not a boy to uh to tell me what I want That's all good. It works well. It is going to take practice to feel comfortable with it. There's a kind of and you've got to rehearse. And this is the easiest part, really. But the bit you have to be wary of is it's not angrily in a way that you've got to like be careful I mean, it's a little bit if you've got people like staring down there, which you never have really But you've got, there's a moment where you take it out, you've got to hold it a certain way. Then at one moment, you've got to hold it a certain way. And then you might have to go back to that way And you've just, all it is, is two 45 degree angles When you do one thing, you're kind of there. When you do another thing, you're there. And if you remember them, which is easy to remember, even I managed it, then you're fine But that's the bit to practice, the shuffle and the bit of kind of acting you have to do at the beginning when you do what you need to do to get things into play, which again is simple mechanically. But that's the practice, the mirror practice that's the filming practice, and that's you being relaxed doing something that you're going to feel guilty about But the good thing is it's so self-contained, you don't need anything else with it You can repeat it again and again and again. You might want to change a couple of things if you don't want the same people watching it again and again for other reasons You can customize this. The one I've got is built for a red deck of cards, red back deck of Bicycles Um, but this, you can redo things if you want to, it comes straight away to do, and you might want to doctor a couple of things. I wouldn't bother as Henry said, but if you are sort of very kind of specific about it, that'll take you a couple of seconds. It's no problem at all. And for me, it's getting over the guilt. It's getting over this very bold, but quite easy other than that shuffle bit trick. Again, I like it because it's all you need, nothing else at all. And it holds itself. There's nothing going to move around. It's going to be in your case like that. You can take it and put it back in your pocket and you're all good. And you get certain replacement things after a very long amount of messing around with it. You might have to sort of re-stick something that you get all that in there anyway. And that's going to be after a while. Somebody did say that someone they knew was left-handed, so they were struggling with it. But I think if you look at those extra things you get, I think. I thought about it, I think you'll be fine. That's all I'll say about giving the game away. So, solid, solid trick. The feedback I got from magicians that sort of said they really liked it. Again, I showed it to a magician the other day and he said, that's really smart, that's really cool, and that really got me. It's brilliant. And I showed some people on Zoom and they were like, it looks great. So, my only reservation about it is, I think, internal to me, because it's not a familiar thing in my neck of the woods and all that. So you made that decision, but it's going to work great. You're going to enjoy it. I enjoyed learning it. I enjoyed the challenge of it. And I enjoyed that feeling of getting better at something that was, that I found initially relatively difficult, not because it's knuckle busting. There's no weird sort of muscles in your little finger. You've got to build up like a flourish, but it's just getting used to something that feels quite alien to me. But there is Deck Deck to wallet by Elijah. It's good fun, really like it. Let me know how it's going down. Please put a comment below and say, I've been doing this all the time. I'm sure it's great because I've seen the live performances and I know they're not doctored. So, but I'd love to know your thoughts. Thanks very much. Any questions, let me know in the comments. 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