 Hey everybody, welcome back to magic orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a magic review Hey today, we're gonna look at transcendence from Peter Pelican. What is transcendence? Basically, it is a four-card transposition that takes place instantly So you have four spot cards and they immediately change into four court cards. It's very beautiful hyper visual. Here's the trailer Good day. I want to show you something Peter Pelican is a true legend Chances are you have already been fooled by his incredible YouTube videos now He never shows his face, but the magic he performs is ultra visual and totally crazy Every effect he creates has that perfect. Wait, what just happened moment in it? Wait, what? Alakazam are proud to bring you the first in the Peter Pelican series This is transcendence Till next time All right, so that was transcendence from Peter Pelican and Alakazam magic Okay, a couple questions. We always ask about all of our magic reviews and the first of which is What is in the box? What's in the box? You're gonna get a DVD and you're gonna get a little carrying wallet Where on one side, there's four of one kind of card and four of another kind of card And they aren't exactly the same cards that are used in the instructional video The cards and the wallet were kind of given as an afterthought after Peter Pelican had already shot and filmed it This was something that Peter Nardi Decided would be a good idea to add in their gaff cards. Yes, they're special cards more They're more like special cards than they are gaff cards But I will say that you could do this effect with any Cards that you own you don't need to use the cards that are provided All right, so what's the overall quality and production value of the video? It's very similar to other Alakazam products. So if you've had David Loosley and Peter Nardi teach you an effect before it's very similar to that only That in this one really Peter Pelican is the primary teacher You do have David Loosley sitting with him and kind of encouraging him and prompting him and prodding him to kind of give A little bit more but you do have everything you expect from great sets to good microphones to good lighting good menus It's a well-made DVD. All right. So is the prop well made these are going to be the German made Phoenix back playing cards that maybe you've seen before from Alakazam. So not bicycle products, but It is a Phoenix back look. So if you have other Phoenix brand cards, these will go hand in hand. Is it well taught? the initial teaching of the actual effect between Peter Pelican and David Loosley is only 10 minutes long. Okay, and the entire DVD is only 32 minutes long So of that 32 minutes 10 minutes is just strictly the Transcendence effect and then it's it's over with and then the remainder of the 20 minutes on the DVD is strictly devoted to other Slites that you could use in other Elmsley Count devoted packages For instance, you will learn the Eddie Title bomb count the Elmsley count from Alex Elmsley, of course the master grip You will learn the OPEC count from Edward Marlowe You're going to learn the combination count that Peter Pelican came up with you're going to learn the rumba count from Valorino The combo count that they're all came up with and the cut count But like I said all of these counts and cuts. They're just variations on the Elmsley and so In packet tricks you find you either do Elmsley counts or frustration counts You know something similar to and so this is just Peter Pelican's additional bonus handlings Just to help increase your knowledge of the Elmsley count really didn't have a whole lot to do with Transcendence positives. All right. So what are the positives to transcendence from Peter Pelican? Peter Pelican has created a very magical looking exchange of four cards that when you combine it with Peter Nardi's gaff cards I think it just opens the door to some amazing possibilities Negatives one of the negatives transcendence, you know like we say right here. There's negatives to everything These are just the negatives that I see if they don't have to be the negatives that you see At its core. This is really a packet trick. Okay. This is a $25 packet trick and like I said, you don't need the cards To do the effect you could use the cards that you have at home So just from my experience and my preferred way of learning I would have preferred a DVD that contained several of Peter Pelican's effects and no cards included I mean, I would have rather received, you know, four or five more effects and zero cards And then I would have felt like it more bang for your buck Okay, to me it just looks like Alec-Azam realized that ten minutes of instruction just on this one effect could fall a little flat so they included cards and To make the consumer feel like they got something worthwhile and I would have preferred Peter Pelican's performance alongside an explanation from Peter Nardi. I just think in that situation Peter should have stepped in and realized that he was the better teacher that you know You learn the effect from Peter Pelican, but then Peter Nardi I think would have been the better Instructor and I think you would have gotten a little bit more From Peter Nardi and so it just didn't feel like Peter Pelican had as much experience Teaching his own effects and that's not anything bad towards Peter Pelican. He's probably an amazing performer But just not as experienced in teaching. I don't know. That's just me Pelican just seemed to have this attitude like he just wanted to finish and go home like Like David Loosley kept prodding him like tell us more or teach us more and Pelican would just act like I'm done Is this effect worth your money? Like I said, it's 25 bucks and really the effect is a 10 minute instruction And you don't need the cards that are included so it kind of felt a little on the high side It feels like Alec Kazan were trying to give you more for your money Just so that you would feel like you got what you wanted, but if you just are looking for the transcendence effect itself Like I said, it's only a 10 minute instruction and you don't need the cards that are provided They help they're great cards, but you don't need them if you don't want them Who would like this? I think people that like packet tricks people that like Learning new ways to do the Elm's account or packet tricks that usually involve the Elm's account those four card Transitions from one to another, you know a lot of those times those packet tricks don't always involve a story or pattern And you're gonna find the same thing here, but I think it's definitely Marketed towards people that are kind of you know packet trick people. Alright, so that is Transcendence from Peter Pelican and Peter Nardi David Loosley and Alec Kazan magic Of course I would always want to thank Murphy's magic for providing this trick for me so that I could do the review for you And if you would like to purchase this trick for yourself, you can find it from your favorite Murphy's Magic dealer. Thanks. Bye