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- Yo, yo, yo guys, what is going on?
Alex Pandrea here, back
with another exciting video.
In today's video we are
talkin' about the gav card
that comes in the X deck
and what you can do with it
because in my last video I said
that we're going to do a video,
and here's the video that we're doing.
So I wanted to post this video
and give you guys enough
time to grab the X deck.
If you haven't grabbed
some there are a few left,
link in the description below.
And if you don't have the deck,
don't worry you could
still do this effect.
Just think about it a little bit.
Hmm, let's think about how we can do this.
Grab yourself a knock deck,
grab yourself a Sharpie,
make your X's on the back of it, and boom.
You have an impromptu gimmick ready to go.
Doesn't even have to be X's.
You could go crazy, do O's.
Play tic-tac-toe for all I care.
All right, so let's talk
about the three ways
that we can use today's gimmick.
All right, so this gimmick
comes with the X deck.
It's a double backer, and
one of the X's is moved
from it's original place
to this place right here.
Specifically this place
because we have a few moves
that we're gonna do that line up
perfectly with this position.
So, we're going to learn the moves first
and then apply it to this gimmick.
Now, the first thing is
an erdnase color change,
a classic in magic,
and I haven't taught it
yet on this channel.
So I will give you my tips on
it and the way that I do it.
So, the erdnase change looks like this.
You have a card, the eight of diamonds,
and all you have to do is just rub
and it changes to another card.
Now, this change in itself I don't like
because you have this
motion of forward, back,
and then getting it.
So, the move is as follows.
I'm gonna push the card forward,
about maybe one-fourth of the way.
All right, and it's right there.
Now be careful not to flash this card
because that's the card that
it's going to change into.
So, I'm gonna push like this until
I could get my pad right
here of my right hand,
with pressure, to put
down on that second card,
pull it back until it clears,
and you're gonna hear this click,
or you're gonna feel this click.
You shouldn't hear it.
You're gonna feel the click happen,
and that's how you know
that the card is free.
Now that the card is free,
it's basically in a palm position.
So you can push this card
with the left finger back
and this card forward
and then get the change.
Okay, now that's the standard,
boom, and how it happens.
Now the way that I like to do it,
is because I don't like this motion
of pushing it forward
and then pushing it back.
I like to keep it outjogged the whole time
because if we're gonna push it forward,
don't push it back afterwards.
Seems straight forward to me.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm
gonna push forward the eight,
come back, contact, and now
instead of coming forward
I'm going to move to the side.
All right?
Which gives it a very, very nice display.
It shows a indifferent card over here.
You have these fingers
here to rest this card on
and have pressure right there,
and it's also gonna be nice
after the change happens
to align this part here and
get the change outjogged.
Okay, and that's just
the way that I do it.
Nothing too crazy about it.
So I'm here.
I show the card.
I could even move a little bit like this
if my thumb blocks this card, all right.
It's not a big deal if they see it,
but you know, it might be too obvious
if you push it like this, show
it, and they see that card
that they're going to see a second later.
So I push, maybe give
it a little bit of rub,
come here, contact that second
card, move it to the side,
balance it on here, and now
you're going to come back,
align it, and as you
move, your right finger
is just gonna align
here to get that change
and maybe come back.
Okay?
So here, here, move here.
Be careful not to flash
like I'm doing right now.
Now, if you want to get
fancy at this point,
you can keep the pressure here
and with your middle finger,
this is a little advanced technique.
Middle finger is going to
hold it, not here but here,
so that now you can
actually push back the card
and separate out your fingers,
which gives it a nice display
to come and then do the change.
Okay?
But if you don't wanna
do that that's fine.
You can just come here, come here,
and square up.
Just put a little bit of pressure.
Square up, and now you
can come back and do this.
And what I like about this is that
even if you do it off the
face with a double lift,
you can actually come here, do the double,
move this a little bit further out,
and now do the exact same change
by just pushing this forward.
First finger pushes this flush,
come back, do the move, come around,
open up your fingers if you want,
square up, slowly come back,
and now you're in position to do a double.
Which is what we're gonna use for this.
So you'll have to excuse this gimmick.
It looks like it was shoved up my butt.
It basically was.
Usually I take out the extra cards
if I'm gonna perform with
this or just use this deck,
and I place this in my back pocket
and then I sit on it.
So, one tip, don't do that
because then you'll get
a sort of warped card
which nobody likes and
nobody's gonna believe
that this is the same card as this,
but bear with me for this tutorial.
So, the double backer
gimmick starts on top
with the normal face up
and with the gimmick side
with the X towards yourself.
And that's gonna be on
top like that, okay?
Now we're going to have a card selected.
It could be any card, and you're gonna use
any control that you want to
control it second from top.
So you can do a tilt, okay?
Boom.
Get it second from top.
Link is in the description
for all these moves
that you might now know.
I have tutorials on them.
You can do a bluff pass.
So a bluff pass by just
picking up only one card
as you tell 'em to place down here.
Again, that's another
tutorial you could find
down in the description below.
But in any case, you're gonna
control it second from top.
And again, many, many ways to do this.
So, it's simple effects like this.
In this case the X is
moving from here to here.
It's very straight forward.
I like to add in a few more phases
just to get the reactions,
boom, boom, boom.
So. maybe a three phase routine.
Now, on this it's gonna
be a two phase routine
so I like to add in a first phase
which is the card coming up to the top,
and it's perfect in this case.
The card is second from top,
you do a move, whatever you wanna do,
snap your fingers.
I don't recommend this
because if you know me at all
on this channel I never
recommend snapping your fingers.
That's just not believable.
You do whatever move that you want,
boom, take your time,
card comes up to the top,
and you do a double lift.
Now what's great is because
this is a double backer
you're already gonna be set to
go with this part right here.
So all you have to do
is just push this off
and tilt your hand this way
so that they don't see this
as of yet, and show the card like that
for first phase to be done.
Wait for their reaction.
Now you're gonna say,
"It's weird that you
picked the nine of hearts.
The nine of hearts has
a very special property.
Watch, this is what's gonna happen."
And now I'm gonna take the card
and place it back face down
with this side up obviously,
hiding the X right here.
You're gonna say, "Look, go
ahead, feel that X right there."
And they're gonna do so.
They're gonna put their
finger on it, whatever,
which is gonna set them up for
the kicker ending at the end.
You're gonna come back here.
Again, this is wrist kill, all right.
This is called wrist killing
where you're just tilting
your wrist like that
so they don't see what's on the face.
You're gonna take that
card, place it back here,
and now you're gonna go
into the erdnase change
by moving this forward a little bit, okay?
And now doing the change, watch the X.
I'm gonna come here, and
I'm gonna take the X,
move it, and you're gonna
move it on a diagonal.
And you're gonna really put pressure on it
to move the X, and come back here,
hold it, take your time
with it, and now move the X.
Boom, and that's the second phase of it.
They're gonna go crazy at this point,
run away screaming, cry a little bit.
You say, "No, come back. We
have one more thing to do.
"We have to fix it."
All right?
And at this point, you
can pick up and show.
That's the great thing
about having it outjogged,
that you don't have to get
another break or whatever.
You just literally pick up the two,
show like this, and you say,
"Look, look, we have to fix it."
All right?
And now from here we're
gonna have the spectator
move it back, which is always nice
to have the spectator do the last phase.
Take the card from here, do a double lift,
so that now the face is
going to be facing up.
So you could either do it this way,
then hold the break, and
then turn it around this way.
Or you can simply do
the easiest way possible
by just here, and then turning it over.
Okay?
Now you're gonna thumb this off,
and here's the great thing
about that double backer again.
It comes in handy
because now it's gonna be
just a regular card.
You could just push off one, okay?
So, now at this point,
you have the regular
card with the three X's.
Gimmick is out of play.
You're gonna tell them to hold
their finger out like this,
any which finger that they want.
You're gonna place the
card on their finger,
put pressure on, and
slowly move it forward,
or move it back, or however
you feel now it should be done.
Maybe even make them hold it at this point
so that they're gripping it tightly,
and now you're gonna start to pull it.
So this is the spectator's hand.
You're gonna start to
pull, pull, pull, and stop.
Now put pressure.
You tell them put pressure.
Good.
Lift up slowly, lift up slowly,
and then get that reveal at
the end, the very nice reveal.
And what's great about this is
that you can hand it out
right away to the spectator.
They're gonna take it;
they're gonna try to move it themselves.
You have a nice three phase routine
where the card comes up to the top,
you move the X, they move it back,
and while they're taking a
look at this dumbfounded,
you have all the time in the world to,
I just pick this up,
gamblers cop this away,
put it in my back pocket,
then sit on it and get it all warped.
All right, here is another
variation of this effect
using a separate move, and
the move is going to be
the twirl change as most
people would know it.
And it looks like that,
but it's only gonna be done with one card.
So if you don't know this
change, it's very, very easy.
You're grabbing two cards
back to back like this,
you're holding the pipped
corners, middle finger and thumb,
and as you shake you're just
twirling, basically like that.
Okay?
So you're holding the first finger,
and as you shake this
is coming towards you
and you keep shaking, and you do that.
All right?
So I'm sure you guys know this.
We're gonna use that for this change.
So what's great about this
is that the positioning
of the first finger,
you could grab the card
in the position of doing the change,
and the first finger
when the change is done
is going to be diagonally
in perfect position
to hide the card, hide
the X not being there,
then grab it, and then move it down, okay.
Now you have to say
something in your patter
that would make this make sense.
So like the ink on the
card if I just shake it
will get a little bit loose.
The ink is actually gonna
get a little bit loose
that I could move the card,
move the X on the card like that.
Okay, so that's sort
of how it should look.
All right, you're holding
the card like this.
As you shake, the
shaking, the bigger motion
is going to cover the smaller motion
of the card being twirled, and then
you could get your first
finger in position like that.
Slow motion here, here, and
then put your finger there.
In fast motion you can show
the X, you can do this,
grab it,
and then move.
Boom, like that.
And from here you're gonna
get into the exact same thing.
Grab a break, show the card is the nine,
or the five, whatever the card is,
the selected card is in this case,
thumb off the one card,
then do the whole spectator
thing like that, boom.
But it's just another way to do the change
if you don't wanna do the
erdnase color change, yes?
So there you have it.
That was the effect with this gimmick.
Now, like I said, you do not need
to use this particular card.
If you want to do it with
even a regular bicycle deck,
grab yourself a Sharpie, Sharpie it up.
If you don't have a double backer,
stick two cards together
with double stick tape,
then make your X's.
Have their selection,
whatever their selection is
on the back of the card,
you draw the X's in there.
All right, so they see
you drawing the X's,
then you move it because
you have a secret gimmick
that they're not aware of,
but that you just drew the X's on there.
Might be even a better effect
when you actually draw the card.
So keep that in mind with
double backer effects,
and I'm sure you'll
have a fun time with it.
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All right guys, so I have a
question of the day for you,
and please leave it in the comments below
because it's gonna be very helpful.
The question of the day today
is what is your favorite gav
card or gimmick card to use.
Leave a comment below.
I'm gonna take a look at them.
I read every comment, and if I find
that more people say one particular card,
I will do a video on that gav card.
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