Revolutionary Card Technique

Revolutionary Card Technique

Ed Marlo's Revolutionary Card Technique is and will remain the ultimate resource on card magic. It was a classic in its time and is still the essential volume for any serious card worker.

Over the span of several years, Marlo published individual booklets that covered all aspects of advanced card manipulation. Many of those booklets were collected and combined to form this book. The content was newly edited and illustrated to be clearer and easier to use and overall, this book will elevate your card work to new heights.

The entire detailed table of contents can be found below. It's honestly too long and full of possibilities that scrolling to read isn't worthwhile -- but I'm including it here in all it's glory to help pinpoint references.

With a preface by Bill Malone and introduction by David Ben, this book starts off at a high level and just keeps climbing! Marlo really was ahead of his time and will continue inspire magicians for many, many years to come.

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Contents of Revolutionary Card Technique

I - Miracle Card Changes

  • Miracle Change No. 1
  • Method No. 1
  • Method No. 2
  • Method No. 3
  • Method No. 4
  • Variation with Effect
  • Miracle Change No. 2
  • Miracle Change No. 3
  • A Multiple Effect
  • Follow the Ace (The Sleeve Change)
  • Climax Sleeving

II - Action Palm

  • The Shuffle Palm
  • Delayed Action Palm
  • The Count Cop
  • Vanishing Card
  • Count Cop For A Number of Cards
  • Count Cop For Small Packets
  • A Variation
  • Count Cop and Transfer
  • Ace Assembly Variation
  • Count Cop Exchange
  • Count Cop for the Left Hand
  • Effect with the Count Cop for the Left Hand
  • The One Hand Action Palm
  • The Clip Steal
  • Turn Up Palm
  • Turnover Palm Card to Pocket
  • Turn Down Palm with Packets
  • Misdirection Palm
  • Effect with Misdirection Palm
  • Misdirection Packet Palm
  • The Cull Palm
  • D'Amico's Cull Palm Effect
  • Cull Palm Replacement
  • An Effect with the Cull Palm Replacement
  • Pressure Fan Palm
  • Effects with the Pressure Fan Palm
  • One Hand Palm as Action Palm
  • Riffle Shuffle Palm
  • Take Techniques for the Action Palm
  • Square Up Drop Palm
  • Square Drop Palm Cards to Pocket
  • Drop Cut Palm
  • Double Action Palms
  • The Table Edge Palm
  • Pivot Bottom Steal
  • Brush Palm
  • Bits of Misdirection
  • The Drop Cover
  • The Wrist Turn
  • Delayed One Hand Palm
  • Palm Replacements
  • The Turn Over
  • The Rise and Riffle
  • The Turn and Gesture
  • The Square Up
  • The Top Card Return
  • After The Cut
  • The Delayed Replacement
  • The Shuffle Replacement
  • Revolving Replacement
  • Holding Out
  • Easy Palm Transfer
  • The Fake Transfer
  • Card From Pocket Ideas
  • With Two Cards

III - Fingertip Control

  • With Two Cards
  • Basic Position
  • Pressure Fan Palm
  • Time Riffle Force
  • Forced Estimation
  • First Method
  • Forced Estimation for Two Cards
  • Second Method
  • Third Method
  • Two Short Corner Cards
  • Cut and Riffle Shuffle
  • Fourth Method
  • A Peek Force
  • A Double Peek Force
  • Multiple Control
  • Fifth Method
  • Double Peek Force
  • Step Control
  • Double Step for Unknown Cards
  • Commercial Double Peek Force
  • Square Up Glimpse
  • Marlo's Definitive Fingertip Control

IV - The Side Steal

  • The Technical Steal
  • The Deliberate Side Steal
  • The Curled Forefinger
  • The Bold Steal
  • The Bottom Bold Steal
  • The Bold Stop Effect
  • A Slight Difference
  • Standard Side STeal
  • On the Left Side
  • Multiple Holdout
  • Left Hand Steal
  • Color Steal
  • Almost Standard
  • The Finger Flutter
  • The Clip Steal
  • Clip Steal to Bottom
  • Clip Steal Color Change
  • Palm Positions
  • Side Steal to Bottom
  • Multiple Rear Palm Steal
  • To the Top
  • Card From Case
  • Stop Effect
  • The Insertion Steals
  • Full Left Hand Steal
  • Direct Insertion Steal
  • Right Hand Steal
  • The Diagonal Steal
  • Side Steal Cover Ups
  • First Cover up
  • Another Handling
  • Clip Steal Cover Up
  • Dribble Stop Effect
  • Card Stab Effect
  • For the Purists
  • Concluding Observations
  • The Dribble Replacement

V - The Tabled Palm

  • One Hand Table Palm
  • Tabled Riffle Palm
  • Flat Palm Steal
  • Angle Palm Steal
  • Adjustment Misdirection
  • Table Riffle Angle Palm
  • Longitudinal Angle Palm
  • Ribbon Spread Palm
  • Traveling Double
  • Ten and Ten
  • Tabled Stop Effect
  • Out of Your Hands
  • As A Control
  • Card to Top
  • Sell or Delusion
  • Face Up Elimination
  • Rise-Rise-Rise
  • Second Method
  • Angle Palm Transfer
  • Tip Up Angle Palm
  • Full Buckle Palm
  • Center Block Palm
  • Direct Rear Palm
  • Direct Full Palm
  • The Card Transfer
  • The Lost Card

VI - The Faro Shuffle

  • In and Out Faro Shuffles
  • The First Technique
  • Faro Aids
  • Rock and Reweave
  • Fan Spread and Weave
  • Resquaring the Packets
  • Second Method
  • Third Method
  • Cutting at 26
  • 26th Card Faro Check
  • The 4th Finger Table
  • Faro Riffle Shuffle
  • Variations in Technique
  • First Variation
  • Second Variation
  • Third Variation
  • Fourth Variation
  • Fifth Variation
  • In the Hands
  • The Butt Faro
  • Partial Faro Check
  • Throw-Off Faro - Top
  • Throw-Off Faro - Bottom
  • Off Center Faro
  • Above Crimp Faro
  • Half and Half Principle
  • Half Plus One
  • Combining Riffle Shuffles & Faros
  • Reverse or Backward Faro
  • On Discrepancies

VII - Faro Notes

  • Faro as a Control
  • Less Than 52
  • With Two Cards
  • For Two Cards at Undetermined Positions
  • A Correction
  • The Faro Calculator
  • The Chain Calculator
  • The Left Over Faro Shuffle
  • Shuffling the Aces
  • Placement Shuffle
  • Control of the Aces
  • An Out Shuffle Effect
  • Progressive Miracle
  • New Deck P. M.
  • 76-76-67-67
  • The Memorized Stack
  • Fingertip Miracle
  • Full Deck - Five Faros
  • The Reverse of Backward Faro
  • A False Shuffle Combination
  • The Wrong Hand
  • It's Mathematical
  • Alternative Procedures
  • Two Disclosures
  • Automatic Placement
  • Variants on Automatic Placement
  • Faro Foolers
  • Instant 26th Location
  • The 17th Location
  • The 13th Location
  • Wrong to Right

VIII - Seconds, Centers and Bottoms (Part One)

  • The Master Grip and Deal
  • The Bottom Deal
  • New Push Out Bottom Deal
  • Double Deal
  • The Over Count
  • The Bottom Deal Count
  • Strike Bottom Deal
  • Strike Bottom Deal Count
  • The Second Deal
  • The Take Second Deal
  • The Push Off Second
  • The Stud Deal
  • The Havana Deal
  • The New Bottom Stud
  • The Stud Second
  • The Push-Off Stud
  • The Sail
  • One Hand Bottom Deal
  • One Hand Count Down
  • Shifting the Grip
  • Two Strike Methods
  • Special Push-Off Techniques
  • Small Packet Second Deal
  • The Side Push-Off Second
  • The Related Bottom Deal
  • The Throw Bottom Deal
  • The Outward Deal
  • The Inward Deal
  • My Favorite Stop Effect
  • The Deep Bottom Deal
  • The Moveable Thumb
  • The Clip Bottom Deal
  • Second Clip Method

IX - Seconds, Centers and Bottoms (Part Two)

  • The Movie Second
  • The Deep Second
  • One Hand Stud Second
  • The Hit Deals
  • D'Amico One Hand Second
  • From Out of Nowhere
  • A D'Amico Variation
  • Stanley James Stud Second
  • Variations of D'Amico's Deal
  • The Top Card Deal
  • One Hand Bottom Deal
  • One Hand Center Deal
  • Marlo One Hand Second
  • D'Amico's Variation
  • The S. F. Grip
  • The S. F. Bottom Deal
  • The S. F. Second Deals
  • S. F. Natural Second Deal
  • Wiersbie's Double Deal
  • Marlo's D. D. Stop
  • M. S. F. One Hand Bottom
  • Added Technique for Weirsbie Double Deal
  • Missing Finger Deals
  • Streamlined Dunbury Delusion
  • Off the Face Seconds
  • Mechanical Seconds
  • Technical Variations
  • Tabled Bottom Deal
  • Tabled Seconds

X - Seconds, Centers and Bottoms (Part Three)

  • The Center Deal
  • Exhibition Center Deal
  • Step Center Deal
  • Weakling's Center Deal
  • The Strike Center
  • Side Steal Center Deal
  • On The Cut
  • The End Jog
  • The Side Jog
  • My Favorite Center Deal Effect; The Expert's Dunbury
  • The Tabled Center Deal
  • Marlo Center Deal
  • Variations of Marl C. D.
  • One Hand Center Deal
  • Marlo's Push Off Unit Control
  • Face Up Assembly
  • Order of Aces
  • The Jack Deal
  • Let's Start Over
  • "He's My Partner"
  • Exhibitionism
  • Invisible Aces
  • Easy Unit Control
  • The Fan Deal
  • The No Touch Theory
  • No Touch Stud Deal
  • Marlo's Strike Unit Control
  • Cover Ups
  • The Downward Deal
  • The Upward Deal
  • The Backward Deal
  • Principle of the Wrist Turn
  • About Noise
  • Concluding Observations

XI - The Multiple Shift

  • The Spade Multiple Shift
  • For One Card
  • Side Jog Multiple Shift - Neal Elias
  • Double Undercut Multiple Shift - Neal Elias
  • Marlo's All Around Square Up, The Moveable Jog
  • Marlo's Single Cut Shift
  • Single Cut Side Shift
  • Technical Variation Single Cut Swivel Shift
  • The Movable Block Shift
  • Strip-Out and Push-Thru Multiple Shifts
  • The Strip-Out Shift
  • The Push-Thru Shift
  • The Shuffle Shift
  • Shuffle Shift and Palm Off
  • The Faro Shuffle Shift
  • D'Amico's Multiple Shift
  • Veeser's Bluff Multiple Shift
  • Tom Wright's Multiple Shift
  • Marlo's Subtle Shift
  • Alternatives
  • The Most Flexible Shift
  • The Simple Shift
  • Notes
  • The Crimped Ace
  • Aces and Numbers
  • Simple Shift - Undercut Variation
  • The Immovable Multiple Shifts
  • To The Bottom - Delayed Type
  • To The Top - Deck Face Down
  • Marlo Sleeve Technique
  • The Block Shift To the Top
  • Block Shift Variations
  • Concluding Observations
  • Added Notes
  • Marl's Turnaround Glimpse
  • Marlo's Side Squaring Glimpse
  • Marlo's Acrobatic Aces

XII - Card Switches

  • Rear Flat Palm
  • Rear Angle Palm
  • Thumb Clip Palm
  • Latest Thumb Clip Palm
  • Changing Palm Positions
  • Flat Card Pickup
  • Rear Angle Palm to Flat Rear Palm
  • Flat Rear Palm to Rear Angle Palm
  • Getting Into the Palm Position
  • Methods of Unloading the X Card After the Switch
  • The Flexible Unload
  • Suggestions
  • The Card Switch Transfer
  • Single Card Switches
  • An Impressive Sequence
  • A Simpler Sequence
  • A Third Sequence
  • Further Alignment Move Switches
  • Variations of the First Switch
  • Marlo's Card Switch
  • Additional Methods for Getting Into the Basic Position
  • Methods of Disclosure
  • Effects Using the Marlo Card Switch
  • Marlo's Push Switch
  • Push Switch Variation
  • The Circular Change (Marlo and D'Amico)
  • In and Out Switches
  • Unloading Switches
  • Without the Deck
  • PSeudo Card Cheat's Switches
  • Simplest Push Switch
  • Angle Palm Switch
  • Four and Four Transposition
  • Additional Rear Palm Switches
  • Top Palm Switch
  • The Throw Switch
  • One Hand Switch
  • Another Rear Palm Switch
  • The Spread Switch
  • Switcheroo
  • Monte Swindle
  • Marlo's Regulation Palm Switches
  • Added Notes

XIII - Estimation (Part One)

  • Mechanical Estimation
  • The Comparison Method
  • The Automatic Gauge Method
  • Variation of the Automatic Gauge
  • The Nail Gauge
  • Nail Gauge Variation
  • Marlo's Favorite
  • The Faro Check
  • Mechanical Estimation Effects
  • The Magic Card
  • "I Think I'll Stop Here"
  • Chosen Card Count Down
  • The Tip-off
  • Reversed Card Out

XIV - Estimation (Part Two)

  • Side Riffle Estimation
  • Pull Down Estimation
  • Back End Estimation
  • The Cut Estimate
  • Visual Retention Estimate
  • Fingertip Riffle Estimation
  • The Sudden Stop
  • The Fan Spread Estimate
  • Estimation Demonstration or PRactice
  • Packet Estimation
  • Key Card Plus Estimation
  • Fingertip Location
  • Triple Estimation Peek
  • Method TWo
  • Miracle Estimation Peek
  • A Three Locator
  • 15-K-11 Speller
  • Mental Spell
  • 7-5-2
  • X-Ray Spelling
  • Fingertip Face Up Locator
  • Double Peek Face Up Locators
  • Spin Cut Stunner
  • Sudden Stop Effect
  • Mental Stab
  • Super Mental Stab
  • Miracle Card Stab Location
  • Marlo's Favorite Out
  • Sensitive Fingers
  • A Marlo Miracle
  • Marlo Miracle "Stop" Stab
  • Miracle Coincidence Toss
  • The Magic Throw #1-3
  • Face Up Finder
  • Sure Throw #1
  • D'Amico's Latest Method
  • Marlo's Suggestion
  • The Dribble Stop
  • The Dribbling Spectator

Index

This book is written by and featuring the work of Ed Marlo. It includes illustrations by Michael Palazon. Mine is a hardcover copy published in 2003 by Magic Inc., printed in 2020 (third edition) with a total of 538 pages.

ISBN: 978-0-9729263-0-0