Stratagem by Joel Dickinson

“I enjoyed reading Stratagem. There’s some great material in this book which I look forward to using.”

– Marc Oberon, FISM Magic Champion.





From the creator of Horosecrets, Firefly and One in Six, Joel Dickinson presents Stratagem. Stratagem is Joels take on a very clever thought of card routine, the ebook also contains a collection of further card magic material.



One Ebook ready for instant download, Five Effects, 21 Pages & Fully illustrated.



Stratagem: 

With Stratagem you have the ability to tell participants playing cards which they believe they are merely thinking of. Nothing has been wrote down, nothing is said. This is as strong for your participants as it is for your audience. 



With no guess work you will know cards which are merely thought of and you will use a regular deck.



Stratagem isn’t just a guess of a playing card and it contains no clever linguistics, you know with 100% accuracy which card a participant is thinking of. This is the closest thing to mind reading that I perform with playing cards.



No guess work

No questions

No dual reality

No mathematics

…this is powerful magic. 



Also included in the ebook are other effects including..



Stop it: 

A playing card is freely selected and lost in the deck. The cards are then individually lifted in to a wine glass with the backs facing the audience. The participant is asked to call stop when ever he chooses, amazingly he stops on his selected card.



Stop it is is recommended for a parlour or stage performance however it does work well close up.



Invisible 52 :

The magician places a Joker prediction card face up. Now, any card is selected face up by your participant which is then placed face up on the table. Your Joker prediction is turned over and on the back is the name of the selected card. Then, the selected card is turned over to reveal it is the only red card in a blue backed deck. Finally, the joker prediction is turned back over and it has magically changed into the named card.



JCAAN : 

The magician deals and your participant has the ability to call stop on the correct prediction. Or have a participant name a card, and then call stop on the very card as the magician deals.



Amnesia Card Trick :

This is fun, your participant believes he’s loosing his marbles as you cause him to forget where he just placed his signed card. Concludes with a finale kicker.