The Silver Acorn deck is the same exceptional quality of the regular edition. They are only available in Cambric finish and are in the same tuck cases as the Black Acorn decks but will be identified by a sticker/mark, so you know which is which. Act soon in order to guarantee that you receive a deck, there were very few printed and we expect them to go quickly!

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*Dozen decks must be purchased at the same time to receive the bonus.

We are very proud to introduce the latest deck in our Erdnase 1902 line of playing cards. It may likely be the last release of this excellent series, and it is a wonderful and fitting finale. Similar to the exquisite Red and Gold Acorn deck, which sold out almost instantaneously upon release last year, this new deck features Guy Hollingworth’s wonderful Acorn back design with a black back and metallic silver details. It is a beautiful deck!

As usual, we have spared no expense and the quality of these cards is amazing. They are on the best card stock and made to handle superbly. We have also had them fashioned in both Ivory (Smooth) and Cambric (Embossed) finishes to suit your personal card handling preferences as well as to provide numerous opportunities for exceptionally subtle deception! Additionally, for those that use Juan Tamariz’s Mnemonica, the deck comes ready to go into stack with nothing more than a simple cut! We have had the cards printed in Mnemonica order and cut so the Ace of Spades is in the front. Accordingly, when you remove the deck, everything seems to be in order, when in reality, you are only one cut away from one of the most potent and versatile subterfuges magic has to offer.

These new cards are made in very limited quantities and will not be reprinted.

FREE BONUS

Exclusive and Rare SILVER Acorns!!

As a thank you to our loyal customers we produced a very special Silver Acorn deck (cambric only)! This amazing deck cannot be purchased but you will get one deck FREE! with every dozen Black Acorns you buy! We only have a few hundred Silver Acorns so this offer is only good while supplies last (Although in the same tuck case as the Black Acorns, these will be identifiable by a small sticker/mark on the cellophane). We promise to never sell Silver Acorns at any price so if you want some you have to get them now (and for FREE)!

Factor in the free decks along with our excellent pricing structure (as low as $2.99 postpaid!), and you have quite a deal! Please see the pricing information below.

Currently we will only be offering these cards to members of the Conjuring Arts Research Center. We thank you very much for your support of our efforts and hope you are finding great value in our resources! (not a member, click here to find out more and to join)

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CONJURING ARTS MEMBER PRICES:

RETAIL DECK PRICES (NON-MEMBERS): ***Not Yet Available*** (Please consider becoming a member, although they may be available to non-members at a higher price eventually)

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Manufactured by Joe Porper to his exacting standards, anodized and engraved with an Ask Alexander deck inspired motif, and made to fit the superior card stock used with this deck, these are a welcome addition for the discerning card handler.

Each clip costs $39.99 (postpaid in the US!). Plus, you will also receive, free of charge, two decks of Ask Alexander playing cards (one Cambric and one Ivory)!

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Our dear friend the brilliant magician Luis Piedrahita recently told us about La biblioteca digital de ilusionismo (Digital Library of Illusion) – a fascinating digital resource for magicians and scholars. At the moment, this library offers access to 62 fully scanned volumes divided into categories: Card Magic, Mentalism, Prestidigitation, White Magic, Magic History, and Scientific Magic.

This database is a part of the Fundación Juan March that was founded in 1955 by Spanish Financier Juan March Ordinas. Based in Madrid, the institution is dedicated to science and the humanities, with a special emphasis on the arts. The Library of Illusion is a special collection meant to compliment the Spanish Library of Contemporary Music and Theater (as well as a massive collection from the library of Argentinean writer Julio Cortázar).

Of particular note, this database provides access to Spain’s first true magic book: Engaños a ojos vistos by Pablo Minguet Madrid, 1733; as well as many other titles, including J. Mieg’s comprehensive El brujo en sociedad Madrid, 1839. Readers will find texts in other languages, such as: Henri Decremps’s La magie blanche dévoilée Paris, 1789, and, a more recent title, Harlan Tarbell’s Crazy Stunts Minneapolis, 1929. There are a number of Spanish translations, in particular: Robert-Houdin’s French L’art de gagner a tous les jeux Paris, 1890 and Carlo Willman’s German Die Moderne Salon-Magie Valencia, 1897.

These digital books have been scanned at a high resolution so that each page looks as it would in real life. Unlike the physical volumes in a rare book room, these books require no special handling or reading stands, and can be flipped through rapidly and noisily. (A Flash animation provides this effect). They are also fully searchable.

The impetus for this project came with a donation from the library of Spanish magic historian José Puchol de Montís in 1988. With nearly 2,000 titles to draw from, we hope that this digital resource will continue to grow.

A pretty interesting method for reading someone’s mind is the subject of this video. Basically the researchers have studied the brain activity using an MRI while showing the participants a number of videos. They then used the brain activity they collected while the participants were watching different videos and made a composite video based on averages. While it is not perfect mind reading, you can see some resemblance to the original input. Regardless it is fascinating and could lead to a number of fascinating new and wonderful things. Here are some links that discuss the project more thoroughly:

Current Biology

International Business Times

Geekosystem

UC Berkeley News Center

The Gallant Lab at UC Berkeley

Gizmodo

The finest Bicycles ever printed and for only $2.99/deck!

Conjuring Arts proudly introduces our new exclusive Professional Bicycle® Playing Cards to the magic community. These new Professional Bicycles® may look familiar, but they have been custom designed for discerning card handlers. They feature an unprecedented level of quality along with a handful of clever surprises.

Details:

These cards are printed on the highest quality casino stock with USPCC’s finest coating. This makes for a deck that not only feels as good as cards from 10 years ago, but even better. These cards will make many common sleights easier, and certain sleights and flourishes wouldn’t be possible with any other deck.

These decks are arranged similarly to the Spanish, or Fournier, order. It is a natural Stay-Stack or mirror stack and will allow those of you who use Mnemonica to get into stack more quickly than with regular Bicycles.

	As with our other cards, users can decide whether they prefer the feel of an Air Cushion or Ivory finish. Clever magicians will create “sorts” by mixing the two finishes together in one deck. A very powerful secret weapon!
	Two identical Jokers in full color.
	Three Built-In Revelations– We have designed 12 different card boxes. Although they will look the same to your audience, in actuality each reveals three commonly named cards in an unexpected manner. This is a new innovation from Conjuring Arts. One card is revealed on the inside of the box and another is revealed when your spectator calls the number under the bar code. Best of all, your spectators can watch the bar code itself transform into the name of a selected card!
	Classic Tuck Case – We have based our card box on the old “Classic” design rather than the current “Standard” box. This design looks more sophisticated and allows magicians to take advantage of the full-size card back printed on the box.
	The cards have been cut in order to facilitate table and other faro shuffles which weave from the bottom up. These card have been built to last much much longer than retail cards, staying flat instead of curling.

Most importantly, the price. We have priced these decks to be cheaper than what’s available at the average drug store! Now you can get recognizable playing cards, of the finest quality, with built in secrets, at the best price!

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What magicians are saying:

You have created a new card that is as good as (or better than) some of my favorite old cards. - Michael Weber

I love these cards and so will you! After three weeks of constant shuffling they still handle great. To date these are the finest quality card on the market. - Bill Malone

Available in nearly every convenience store across the nation, the Bicycle® brand is recognized as the standard among playing cards. Unfortunately the quality of this deck has diminished to an almost unbearable standard for magicians and it’s because of this that we are forced to use alternative cards that might seem a bit odd to the viewing audience. The Professional Bicycle® packages everything the Conjuring Arts knows about printing cards, combined with innovative features, inside a classic Bicycle® box. We couldn’t be more pleased with a deck of playing cards. - Dan and Dave

Here is a breakdown of the pricing:

Sold in sets of 12 decks (36 reveals in all) and gross of 144 decks (1 brick of each 3-reveal design)*. Free shipping within the USA.

Conjuring Arts Research Center members:

• 1 dozen: 1 deck of each design (6 Air-cushion and 6 Ivory), each with a different 3-reveal design = $44.99 (20% savings from full price!)
• 1 gross: 12 decks of each design = $429.99 (35% savings from full price! BEST DEAL, only $2.99/deck!)

Non-members:

• 1 dozen: 1 deck of each design (6 Air-cushion and 6 Ivory), each with a different 3-reveal design = $54.99
• 1 gross: 12 decks of each design = $549.99 (17% savings from full price)

Shipping to Canada and Mexico is an additonal $11.95/dozen or $71.00/gross.
Shipping internationally is an additonal $13.95/dozen or $117.00/gross.

* At this time no single deck orders. Only available by the dozen, or by mixed gross at present. Each dozen contains 1 each of the 12 designs (6 Air-cushion and 6 Ivory). Each gross contains 12 decks of each design. For the best price, buy a gross.

12 different card boxes:

For example, Guyot in the first book to describe the classic pass, mentions the wide card as being one of the indispensable tools to the conjurer. At that point in time, the quality of playing cards was such that nearly every pack was so poorly cut that you could immediately locate one card whose size was suitably larger than the rest in the deck. However, current cards are pretty uniform (although the superlative Derek DelGaudio’s sensitive fingers seem to prove otherwise!) and the wide card has fallen into disuse. You can make your own with one of our uncut sheets and breathe fresh life into this extraordinary bit of chicanery. Enjoy!

They are $29.99 postpaid domestically. Shipping elsewhere is $11 for first class mail. Contact Alexis (librarian@conjuringarts.org) for other options.

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For example, Guyot in the first book to describe the classic pass, mentions the wide card as being one of the indispensable tools to the conjurer. At that point in time, the quality of playing cards was such that nearly every pack was so poorly cut that you could immediately locate one card whose size was suitably larger than the rest in the deck. However, current cards are pretty uniform (although the superlative Derek DelGaudio’s sensitive fingers seem to prove otherwise!) and the wide card has fallen into disuse. You can make your own with one of our uncut sheets and breathe fresh life into this extraordinary bit of chicanery. Enjoy!

They are $29.99 postpaid domestically. Shipping elsewhere is $11 for first class mail. Contact Alexis (librarian@conjuringarts.org) for other options.

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As a special treat for Halloween, we are releasing uncut sheets of a number of our decks for sale for a limited time! These are what the cards look like before they are cut and work great as display pieces or for other purposes. We had the Erdnaseum sheets, for example, at the Erdnaseum convention and there were a number of people getting them signed by all of the attendees, so a good idea might be to have a sheet signed by your favorite practitioners of Erdnase!

We have had a limited number of the sheets printed, and have already given away a lot of our stock of the Erdnaseum sheets to attendees of the convention, so act quickly. They will not be reprinted. Additionally we still have a very limited number of our previously released uncut sheets and Ask Alexander playing card decks so feel free to add to your order!

The Erdnaseum uncut sheets are available in Cambric. However, the Ask Alexander uncut sheets are available in both Cambric and Ivory finishes. Please contact Alexis if you have any questions or have trouble ordering through the website.

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Now available to everybody….in limited supply!

In honor of our glorious friend, Ask Alexander, we have collaborated with M. Stutzman, artist for David Blaine’s wonderful playing cards and posters, to bring you the Ask Alexander deck. Featuring numerous diabolical properties and an elegant, cunning design, this is a deck that you will be proud to have with you in magical endeavors, as well as an excellent addition to your card collection.

The Ask Alexander deck is printed on the finest casino paper and to the highest standards available at the United States Playing Card Company. During the course of our efforts to make our various custom playing card decks, we have made numerous trips to the USPCC’s facilities in order to personally oversee the manufacture of our playing cards and to make any and all adjustments necessary to craft the perfect deck of cards.

This unique, impressive deck is manufactured in both Cambric and Ivory finishes in order to accommodate all personal and devious preferences. The cards are cut in the same fashion as our previous decks to facilitate smooth handling and effortless faro shuffles.You may notice a similarity to Bulldog Squeezers and Angel Back Squeezers. They were our inspiration when designing this deck. The bold one way back design of the Bulldog Squeezers combined with the elegance and nuanced features of the Angel Back Squeezer deck.

Available to Members with their member discount, Conjuring Arts has also made them available to non-members, at the retail price, if they do not sell out. If you would like to become a member please click here.

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Please remember that you can include Indestructible or Original Erdnase Bibles, Gibecières, as well as any of our other merchandise with your cards order!

*A dozen decks is shipped in a priority flat rate envelope, which does not allow for the brick to be shipped assembled, if you would like the cards in the brick box, let us know. We would be happy to ship the whole thing to you for a small increase in shipping.

Head Librarian, CARC

apavenick@conjuringarts.org
212.594.1033