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The Effect
A spectator chooses names a card are you go through a face up deck. The card is placed somewhere else in the deck. The pack is given a cut and all the cards have blank faces apart from their card. The other cards have the normal bicycle deck backs. You take their card and place it face down on the table. After going thorugh the rest of the blank deck, you show that now their card also has a blank face

Cost

$14.95 from Penguin

Difficulty

3/2

(1=easy to do, 2=No sleights, but not so easy, 3=Some sleights used,
4=Advanced sleights used, 5=Suitable for experienced magicians only)


Review

Without revealing the way Blizzard works, this is the one deck version of Blizzard. Unlike Blizzard it is not fully inspectable, but if you do the trick correctly, people will think that you showed them the whole deck. It gets a brilliant reaction as you get wads of blank-faced cards and drop them on the table - all 52 cards can be shown to be blank. It works great with some sort of patter about how people's memories can effect the real world (i.e. you can't remember a card, so it's face vanishes).
This is also a lot quicker to perform than Blizzard and does not involve a piece of misdirection that Blizzard relies on. Nevertheless, it's got good instructions, a good effect, and, although it's not an instant reset, it takes less than a minute before you can do it again.

Overall
Definitely worth getting, even if you have Blizzard. The Penguin video that you get if you buy it from there also has a good way of cutting the pack more effectively to get the trick to work.

Score
8/10 - loses marks because it can't be examined, but otherwise, great.