Royal Stab by Richard Sanders

video only.

The Card Stab That Fits In Your Pocket!

Physically alter a standard playing card and hand it out for immediate examination!

What do you get when you combine audience participation, selected playing cards, a great plot and a magically altered playing card?

You get the little pocket miracle from the mind of Richard Sanders that will blow away your audience every time!

Effect

Two cards are selected and lost in the deck. You bring up the topic of the classic effect, The Card Stab, where the magician thrusts a sword into a deck of cards, impaling the selections on it. You boldly offer to perform this miracle; however, you explain that presently all your swords are at the dry cleaners.

Luckily there is one card in the deck that carries his own sword, the King of Clubs. After the King of Clubs has been thoroughly examined, it is pushed half way into the deck, when it emerges one of the selected cards is now impossibly impaled on the king's sword...and it's part of the actual printing on the card...this is impossible! If that wasn't enough, without any switches, the same card is pushed into the pack again and impossibly, the second selection is now impaled on the King's other sword...the cards just seem to materialize on the swords...it's crazy visual magic!

You leave the spectators holding an impossibly altered playing card with both their selections impaled on the King's swords! The impaled cards are part of the printed playing card...and it's totally examinable!