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This is my variation on the Chicago Opener, an homage to Dexraccoon's handling and inspired by the Mirror Image effect off the Ellusionist Army of 52 DVD.

Alright, this is an effect called Dex's Ink. I discovered this curious trick in my spare time, and it was inspired by Dex the Raccoon's handling of the Chicago Opener. You see, he adds a variation to the ending sequence when he reveals that the stranger card changes; instead of presenting this as a blunder on the magician's part, he makes the change more direct, almost like a chameleon, changing the red card to the spectator's choice. This is also inspired by the Mirror Image effect in the Army of 52 DVD (you can buy this off of Ellusionist), in which the reversed imprint of the 5 of spades is visually pressed onto a blank card. I thought to myself, what if I could take Dex's final revelation and make it into a stunning near-impossibility by transferring the ink from the spectator's choice onto the blanked-out red card? So this is what I came up with, I hope you enjoy.

We start off with a blue deck of cards, we have the spectator choose a card, and we show him his selection, before burying it into the deck; lost, but not forgotten. If I wind up the deck like so, one card should have a red back, the spectator's selection. We can set that aside for now, and then have the spectator pick another card, in this case the 5 of spades. Now instead of making it turn into another red card, we could take Dex's approach and cause the red card on the table to change value and -- oops, it's blank! Well of course a magician has to learn to improvise, so what if we could take the blank card and slide it over the 5 of spades. We take out the two cards back-to-back (we don't need the rest of the deck) and then if I concentrate, I could give it a squeeze, then I peel off some of the ink from the selection, leaving me with a red reversed 5 of spades and your card.

Alright guys let's get into the explanation and we're gonna learn Dex's Ink!

Original Trick by Frank Garcia

Variation inspired from Clarke "Dex the Raccoon" Braudis

Gaffs from Justin Miller's Army of 52 DVD

Performed by Sean Skyhawk (less info)