 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Pathodoxy. My name is David and this is a Magic Review. Hey, today we're going to look at the Mirage Deck from Daryl and Murphy's Magic. Alright, so the Mirage Deck. If you don't know what the Mirage Deck is, it's an amazing deck of cards. It allows you to do tricks very similar to a Spangali deck. I won't go into what a Spangali deck is, but it's basically a Spangali deck that uses the Ruffin Smooth principle, which would allow you to fan all your cards and your spectator would never see your force card until you did your secret move. Some of the features of this deck is you're able to immediately know any card a spectator picks. That's awesome. You can have a spectator cut to their own card in a very fair condition, and you can instantly change the entire deck into the selected card. And of course, when you purchase this, you're not only getting the deck, but you're also getting some instructions written up by Daryl. Now, I keep saying this deck is a Ruffin Smooth deck, but you could be saying it, David, I don't even know what Ruffin Smooth is. Teach me, oh genie. Alright, so you came to the right place. Ruffin Smooth is a principle that's been applied to card magic for a really long time. What it is, is it's a fluid, roughing fluid, that allows cards to stick together temporarily. Now you can stick them together face-to-face, back-to-back, back-to-face, or face-to-back. And they stick together just for a slight amount of time, but with a little bit of pressure, you can pop them apart and show two cards from one. This technique was first used by gamblers for a quick location for the ace of spades, and it was known in gambler supply houses as slick aces. It was their way of making cards slippery, more so than any other cards in the deck. A lot of different decks in magic use this principle. You have the new idea deck, the nudist deck, split deck, the delirium deck, the mirage deck, the invisible deck, and the Colorado deck. And if you'd like to learn more about this principle, there's plenty of stuff to read out there. Aside from just the instructions that you'll get from Daryl, there's the Ruffin Smooth principle that came out in Greater Magic Magazine in 1938. There's Ruffstuff by Joe Berg that came out in 1956. There's also Ruffin Smooth Possibilities. Now that was written by Tanhoc Chuan and came out in 1948. And of course, there is the classic Ruffin Leures by Al Dini, which came out in 1969. And of course, any book that has tricks for the Spangali deck would be great for the mirage deck. I would highly recommend the Encyclopedia of card tricks by Gene Huggard. Now, if you don't have a mirage deck, but you have a Spangali, and you've always kind of wanted to take the Spangali to the next level, then I would say mirage deck might be the deck for you. If you don't even have a Spangali deck, but you've always wanted one, maybe the mirage deck would be the alternative. Alright, so that's my review for the mirage deck. If you don't have your own, you can find it at your favorite Murphy's Magic dealer. Thanks, bye.