(hypnotic trance music)
- Alright, we're gonna do
the yo, yo, yo on three.
- Okay, let's do it.
- Ready?
Three, two.
- (in unison) Yo, yo, yo.
- It's three yos.
- I did yo, yo, yo.
- And we kind of mend it in
together, like it's on yo
so people go did he just say yooooo
or is like yo, yo, yo, did he stutter?
Here we go on three, two, one.
- (in unison) Yo, yo, yo.
- That was pretty good.
- Try it one more time a little faster
with a little bit more oomph.
- (in unison) One, two, three.
Yo, yo, yo.
- Guys, what's going on?
My name's Alex Pandrea.
I'm here with the one and only Shim Lim.
- Or Shin Rim.
- What's going on, man?
So good to see you after all this time
working on this deck and now
it's finally in our hands.
In this video, what are we gonna do?
We're gonna talk bout
the deck a little bit
because I know you guys
have been so patient with it
and all the pre-orders are being shipped
and most of you have probably
gotten the decks already.
So you can go ahead, bring your
deck along on this tutorial.
- You can only use this
deck to learn the tutorial.
- Only this deck.
- Can't use any other deck, sorry.
- I asked you what can
we put into this deck
that would be cool and you came up
with this really sick trick.
Effect is very Shin-like.
- Yeah, it's something I would perform.
If I were to perform a cool slow vanish,
I'd probably do something like this.
- All you're gonna need
is this deck of cards.
- Some hair.
- (in unison) And epic music.
- Roll that Hans Zimmer goodness on three.
Three, two, one.
We didn't have the right--.
- No, turns out we didn't
have the clearance issues
so we're gonna use some
regular royalty-free EDM music
from YouTube that we found.
Here we go, here's the generic music.
- Roll it, thanks.
(hypnotic trance music)
Okay, we are here with the
performance of this effect.
I have a spectator joining me.
Spectator, we've never
met before, have we?
Do we know each other?
- Absolutely not.
- Absolutely not, it's not set up.
- This is my deck of cards.
- This is your deck of cards.
- It has nothing to do with you.
- Your deck of cards.
And this is a regular deck, right?
- Absolutely regularly.
- Completely regular.
I'm gonna need you to pick
a card and I'm gonna find it
in a very weird way.
So I need one finger, please.
Touch the back of a card.
This one, take it out, show
it around to the camera.
Show it to everybody, make
sure everybody gets it.
- (whispering) Remember the card.
- Yes, remember it.
Place it back.
Okay, now I have something inside.
Hold this just for a second.
I don't know if you know this
but these are printed cards, right?
Obviously, your card is somewhere in here.
This is how cards look
before they're printed
from the factory.
Notice the blank.
These are pipped, these are blank,
but I'm gonna try to
sort of print your card.
Think of your card,
think of it, think of it.
- Oh my god.
- I know.
Stay in your seats, I
got more, look at this.
Is your card the king of spades?
- That's incredible.
- But you know what the problem is?
You can't play this.
People will think this is a weird card.
So we gotta do something a
little bit more different.
We gotta actually print
everything so watch the king
print itself into the normal card.
There it is.
- That is crazy.
- You can check it out.
- This is my card.
This man came up to me in
the middle of the street
and asked me to show a trick
and then he took my card
and turned it into the ink.
Unbelievable.
- And now it's a regular deck.
- Oh wow, thank you so much.
That was wonderful.
That was the most amazing trick
I've ever seen in my entire life.
Done with a normal deck of cards.
Are we starting?
- I don't know, maybe
we should get focused.
Are we focused?
You focused?
We good?
Can I do my little thing?
Okay.
(exhaling)
- How was that?
- I think that one's gonna look great.
This is all you need for this effect.
- So easy.
- And you need a deck and you need the box
and you need a little bit of skill.
So more than just these
three cards but nonetheless
you need a king of spades.
This is gonna be your force card.
You need the half printed king of spades.
And you need the blank card.
Shin will act as the eyes of the audience.
First things first,
thinking about this effect,
I was like I hate when
there's gimmicks or gaffs
inside of the deck when
trying to do something
'cause then maybe they pick it
and they go oh, what's this?
And so I always keep it in
the box or in my pocket.
If I keep 'em in the pocket,
it's good 'cause you sit
on it and it won't move
so I keep it in the box.
So if I know I have gimmicks,
a lot of the times I would
have it on top of the deck
and when they go in the box
and I come out to take the cards,
I just got one, two,
and I keep those cards
inside of the box and I get rid of the box
and now I know this is a regular deck.
Now this is besides
the point of this trick
but it fits into it really nicely.
So with that being said, king
of spades is the force card.
The setup for it is exactly like we said.
We're gonna leave the two cards in the box
so blank card on top, face
up on top of the printed one.
You're gonna notice while
you're performing this effect
the orientation of this.
Maybe you want to put a pencil dot on
so you know which one.
Not necessarily if you just
take a peek before you start
if you know you're gonna do this effect.
I just kind of take a peek.
So basically, when you take this out,
you want the orientation to be like this,
the pip towards you when you're
gonna do the color change.
So I'm gonna do the color change
and I know the pip has to be towards me.
So that means just look at how
you take it out of the box.
If I take it out of the box like this
and I put it onto the deck like that.
Or do I take it and I put
it on the deck like that?
That's gonna be up to you.
That's your style of handling cards.
Just know that the pip has
to be this way, like that.
This is gonna be in the box
and that is your set up.
So for me, that
is the setup 'cause I'm gonna come here
and place the card like that on the box.
That's step number one.
Number two is to force the king of spades.
You can do a riffle force
til you stop, stop, and
then pickup at the break.
Just in case you did not know,
riffle force is you want
to cut the king of spades
into the middle of the deck
and hold a pinky break.
You're gonna riffle (trilling voice).
They say stop.
- Stop.
- Please, just stop.
And then you pick up at the break
and you force them the king of spades.
In the performance, I did a classic force.
If you want to learn my
tips on the classic force,
the link is down below
to that video, as well,
but there's so many forces out there.
You can just force them with threats.
King of spades, I swear
to god, if you don't.
You know, that kind of stuff.
It gets a little violent, depends
on your performance style.
Anyways, so you're forcing
the king of spades.
They look at the card and
then you replace it back
and you have to control
it back up to the top
using your favorite method.
Shin, question for you.
If you were to force a card
and control it to the top,
what methods would you use?
- This is exactly how I would do it.
I'd say stop, they say stop, great.
I have the king.
- So riffle force, right?
- Use the riffle force.
And then can I please
have your hand as a table?
Like that.
- So it looks like you're shuffling.
- It looks like I'm shuffling but really--
- Oh, the king is so in
the middle right now,
it's so in the middle
but they don't know that it's on top.
- It's easy but I think it's convincing,
especially for normal people.
- Step number three is now
the start of the routine
'cause now the card is
on top and you say look.
Now you get into the presentation.
Turn the deck over and you're
gonna start spreading and say
these cards are printed, right?
I always wondered about the
process of printing cards.
We just made up the performance right now.
Take out the card.
So you say look, I have
one little card in the box
and you're gonna take out the card
and remember, the pip is over here
so you want to align it that
way, so I would do it this way.
And I would hold the break right there.
I'm gonna take out the card.
Yeah, that's right.
You're gonna come here
and place that on top,
maybe even in Biddle grip, like that.
From this point, you're gonna need to
palm off the bottom card and
do a classic color change.
And remember, this is the basic version
of what we're doing here.
You say these are how cards
look before they're printed.
Now obviously, this has
ink on it, this doesn't.
Do you remember your card?
And I'm gonna just place it
off to the side like this.
Do you remember your
card, pointing at them.
As they come down, I'm
gonna open up my hand,
pull with my thumb,
just a little bit so this is exposed
and now I'm gonna palm off the card,
pushing with these fingers,
that helps to clear it, pushing,
and now you're in palm.
When it's like this and
you get the palm right away
and you've gotta do the color change,
I tend to not bring it up too much
but I just keep these fingers
on it so it doesn't fall.
This way, you could even get fancy
by pulling it back, opening the fingers,
which could look nice,
or if not, just going straight into it.
This way, you don't have to come up here
and be awkward with the hand
'cause sometimes this can look awkward.
So you're here, you're here,
you're going to place it on top
and immediately, you're
going to clockwise,
not counterclockwise
but clockwise your hand
so only about half the card is showing.
And now you're gonna
start to towards yourself
do this little rubbing action.
It looks really nice if you come here,
do this, move a little
bit so it starts to print,
and then come back.
Move a little bit more and
then a little bit more,
ending maybe on the pip and doing this.
This is all acting,
this is like your forte.
When you do a change or
when you do something
and something's happening, you really put
a lot of emphasis on it, which
I think is super important.
Just as a side note,
whenever your do something,
even the card comes to
the top or whatever,
I think if you put emphasis
on it as a magician,
then they'll put more emphasis on it.
If you're about to change a card
and you just go (snapping) eh, boom, then
they don't care so much about it.
But if you come here and you're here
and you say watch that blank
card, it'll start to print,
and you start concentrating on it,
they're gonna come down
and concentrate on it.
- Especially right before
the change happens.
Let's say you're here,
if you can add some suspense
to it so lower a little bit
and then come down, that's
when they'll feel the magic.
It's always the pause before
the magic, in my opinion.
Right before, you pause and then boom.
And then you relax as it happens.
They kind of freak out after that.
- I think it's great.
So now that we're here, this is the time
where you're gonna have
a relaxation moment
from the spectators
because after you did this,
it's already revealed that the card is,
so they're gonna freak
out, they're gonna relax.
The moment was here very concentrated
and then, (exhaling) oh my god,
they've never seen this before.
It's at this time where you're
gonna do one of two things.
The first thing is to turn
everything 180 degrees around
'cause we're gonna try to
mimic the same exact way
by printing this part now of the card.
So you want it here, boom.
- The king facing up.
- From here, you're going
to bottom palm a card.
This is the revelation,
the final revelation.
You're going to start pushing
with the first fingers of the left hand,
so all these fingers, you're
gonna start pushing off.
And your hand is here and so the position
as you're grabbing it,
you're gonna palm it off.
So push, right?
Palm and push up into the hand
and I like to keep my finger
on it, just like this.
I don't need to come away
because, again, we talked about that.
Right away, I'm gonna come on top
clockwise
and start printing the rest.
- I have a problem of bottom palming
so I just thought of this.
You're in this position, we're back here,
and we need to do this turnover,
so I realized we could just do.
See what I'm doing and
then we can do the rub.
It's just like that
and then like that.
'Cause I actually have never practiced
the bottom palm very much.
I'm not very good at it.
- And honestly, it's just about really
what color changes look best
and how to structure it.
The formula is the same.
You force a card, bring
out the blank card,
do two color changes.
Literally, there's
endless versions of this
that we can think about.
Force the card, bring out the blank card,
do the first color change,
do the second color change.
You could even do it in reverse, really.
You can take the card
and then make it blank.
Why you would do that,
I'm sure it could be justified somehow.
Another thing that I was thinking
is that you can have the
king of spades signed.
So you're lucky enough to
purchase two of these decks.
- Which you should.
- Then you'd have a king
of spades duplicate.
With the king of spades duplicate,
you can force one, have them sign it.
So now you're taking this one,
you're printing to this,
then you're printing to this,
and then you say, oh, well wait.
- But where's your signature?
- Where's the signature?
And then (exhaling) print
the signature on there.
One thing that we do want to note
is now the cards are
not on pre-sale anymore
so that means they are on regular sale.
The ones that pre-ordered
got a really good price
and if you want to purchase
the deck right now,
where they can go?
They can go to houseofplayingcards.com
or they could go to shinlimmagic.com.
Either one of those places
are good to get this,
that you'll be supporting
both Shin and I personally.
(cards shuffling loudly)
And one more thing,
you have a contest going on your channel.
- Right on my channel so if
you want to check it out,
go ahead Shin Lim Magic on YouTube
and the video of me unboxing the Not Deck
but I will also be having a contest
on how you can win a free signed deck.
So go over right now
after this view is over,
after this one's over.
- Alright guys, there you
have it, that was the video.
Hope you enjoyed it.
Hope you learned something.
Please go and give Shin love,
his channel, his video, his contest.
Everything is down below
linked in the description.
Any last words that you
want to say about this?
- Thank you, man.
I really appreciate it.
This deck is awesome, man.
Alright, everyone.
Like, comment, and
subscribe to Alex's channel
right now, do it.
Do it right now.
Do it right now.
- Do you think they did it?
- This was a true knockout.
(laughing)
- That's the outro right there.
Peace.
(relaxed trip-hop music)
