 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Worth it Oxy. My name is David and this is a Magic Review. Hey, today we're going to look at tactical from the team down at Magic World. What is tactical? Tactical is a card transformation. It's a warp. It's a visual change that allows you to change a mini deck of cards into a full-size deck of cards, or there's a special bonus handling. You could transform a tic-tac box into a full-size deck of cards. Do you want to see the trailer? Of course you do. All right, so that was tactical. This was brought to you by the good people down at Magic World. A couple questions we always ask about all of our Magic Reviews and the first of which is what's in the box? What's in the box? You're getting a little tiny paper puff package. It's made to kind of keep air around it because the inside contents are pretty delicate. You're going to get two gimmicks. Okay, you're going to get two gimmicks. You're going to get this small deck gimmick and you're going to get the tic-tac gimmick. Both of them are constructed for you. One of them is completely constructed. So one of them will be completely constructed ready to go. The second one will be 50%, 85% ish constructed for you and you will have to finish the construction on it. You will also receive some materials, some special gimmick material to complete the construction and so that you could do gimmick repair in the future should your gimmicks break and you'll get the download code to the 23 minute video. Is it what I thought? Yes or no? I mean there was one element to the effect that I could see right away in the trailer that was necessary. It wasn't part of the gimmick but it was necessary. I saw that part but the other element, the main part of it, I didn't actually guess straight on from watching the trailer so it was a nice surprise. How are the angles? The angles for this are going to be the same as another effect. I don't know if you know Blink. Blink came out a long time ago from JB Magic. It was a Mark Mason effect before Alakazam. I am old enough, I'm old enough to have had Blink in the past so I had Blink so I was kind of familiar with this style of gimmick. The gimmick effect itself, the base of it is a classic in card magic but how Magic World solved this puzzle, how they put this all together definitely draws inspiration from a couple of different venues, one of which is Blink but they definitely borrow from some other effects to create this. So the angles, the angles to get back to angles, the angles will be the same though for Blink so if you're already familiar with that the angles are the same so there are some angle issues but it's more time sensitive than it is angle sensitive. So it should look good from all angles maybe except for not from behind you obviously you don't want people behind you but I think if you do the trick at speed you'll diminish your angles incredibly. Alright so what's the overall quality and production value with the video? The video seems to have been shot pretty fast and haphazard you got two instructors at the very beginning they're just sitting on a couch in some sort of street shop some street store and they're right by the window that enters out onto the street so you can clearly see traffic in the background zooming by all the time so that was a little distracting and you can hear the traffic so the camera is picking up all the traffic noise do you hear that and then your instructors aren't even miked because there's two of them and they're probably filming with one camera so they can't use two mics and the camera is just mounted on a tripod so you're not getting any close-up shots so it's kind of echoey they're not miked you only have the one shot you can hear traffic from outside and then on top of that it seems like they cut they did their cuts they did their editing really quickly so there's really no good transitions between one shot and the next sometimes the the edit happens in mid-sentence so it just it left a little all right so what's taught on the download on the download you're going to receive the inspiration behind the effect obviously you'll receive the construction of the effect so how you can make the second gimmick and then repair additional gimmicks you'll get a performance obviously of both of both transformations you'll learn some additional handling so let's say you don't like the handling that they show you they'll show you some different ones and they'll even show you a little behind the scenes of how they film the commercial there are some transitions there are some changes that happen in the commercial there aren't actually the effect so to be all cards on the table they show you how they did some of those transformations but they weren't done with camera magic they weren't done with the effect is it well made the one you get that's made is well made but you'll have to build the other one how much practice does this require it's pretty simple as far as the moves go okay so as far as there being slights or anything like that that part simple the part that you'll need to practice is the timing you want to make sure this timing looks right so that when the transformation happens it's not clumsy it's not fumbly you know it happens nice and clean so that all the spectators receive the same effect especially if you're going to do this on camera you definitely want to make sure your timing was right on so that people couldn't actually stop or slow down or pause the frame rate to see where the transformation takes place so there are some timing things with this routine like i said it's not hard it's not hard but the timing does need to get practiced how much setup and reset is there again i'm going to refer back to blink with mark mason uh very minimal setup and reset it's super easy positives all right so what are the positives take tactical tactical is a hyper visual change that allows you to grab your audience's attention in the very first few seconds you'll be getting applause before the routine has even started with this one negatives all right so what are the negatives to tactical you know like we say around here there's negatives to everything these are just the negatives that i see they don't have to be the negatives that you see um really the negative for me and it was just a negative for me this won't be a negative for you at all actually because when i received mine it wasn't complete so i received two gimmicks that were identical i didn't get the tic-tac gimmick and both of my gimmicks needed diy so if you've watched my channel for any amount of time you know i hate diy i hate it so to get two gimmicks are identical when they both needed diy that i wasn't i wasn't in love with that plus there is a little element to it where you do need to wear specific clothing the guys from magic world will tell you you don't need to wear specific clothing and they do give you hand links uh for additional ways to do it however it's better okay it's better and easier if you wear the correct clothing so i think that makes it a little restrictive is it worth your money it's 30 bucks 30 bucks and you get two handmade gimmicks plus a 23 minute video it's definitely in the ballpark definitely worth your money who would like this all right so who would like this i think people that do street magic this is built for you it's a great opener it gets people's attention and when you do street magic or when you do strolling or when you do walk around you know table hopping you want to be able to get people's attention right away because either they're eating or they're walking or they're going from one place to the next and you want to grab their attention immediately so they stop and watch what you're doing that's good that's a great trick for getting audience attention so i think this would definitely speak your language all right so that's my review for tactical from magic world i want to thank the team down at murphy's magic supplies for allowing me to have this effect so that i could do the review for you and if you would like to purchase it for yourself you can find it from your very favorite murphy's magic dealer thanks bye