 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a Magic Review. Hey, today we're going to look at visions from Matthew Wright. What is visions? It's a custom deck trick. It's a mentalism effect. It's actually a two-hit mentalism effect that is sure to leave your spectators wowing. You want to see the trailer? This is it. If I told you I could give you the power to read a mind, to see what they see. What if I told you you had the power to know this in advance? Would you take it? With great power comes great responsibility how to present visions. Visions is an incredibly direct and powerful double prediction. The spectator draws an image in their mind. A completely free choice. No forces, no list. The spectator now chooses any card from a deck. A prediction is now removed from the pocket or from an envelope that's been on display the entire time. The prediction matches the chosen card and on the reverse is the exact image the spectator has drawn in their mind. Visions is incredibly simple to perform. There's no memory work, no palming, no pocket writing, no sleight of hand. It's self-working. I'm going to pop this just here. That's your prediction. We'll come back for that in a second. I think this is you. So we'll try it with you. I'm going to draw you a picture in my mind. It's a picture of something. So it's not like a square, a circle. It's not a shape. It's a picture of something. Something a kid might draw. Something simple. This might be you. What picture do you think I've drawn for you in my mind? A bolt? He was. He was a bolt. Wow. Brilliant. It was a bolt. Amazing. Amazing. Let's go one step further. First of all, right, you can see all these cards are different. That's important. What I want you to do is just cut any way you like. Just cut the deck and we'll mark that just there. Now, you were thinking of a bolt. And I was thinking bolt, which was brilliant. This time I've got one card in my mind, all right? And you've cut to any card you wanted. You've cut to no way back for the card I was thinking of. That's my favorite card. You were brilliant. The five of hearts. This prediction has been on the table the whole time. Inside here, we've got a business card, paid to put to it is one card. It's the five of hearts. It's my favorite. Do you know why it's my favorite card? It's got a picture of a bolt on it. No way. All right. So that was Matthew Wright. A couple of you might remember. I've done a couple of other reviews for him in the past. A couple of 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 going to get a custom printed deck. You're going to get a download code to the one hour video. You're going to get PDFs. You're going to get a custom crib. You're even going to get arts and crafts supplies. Is it what I thought? No, it's not what I thought at all. I kind of thought it was something else because I have effects that are kind of similar, not exactly kind of similar. And they use a completely different method. So I was almost expecting it to be a duplicate of something I already owned. I was pleasantly surprised. How are the angles? The angles on this mostly involve palming and card forcing. Okay. So if you can get around palming and card forcing, you're good to go. Can it be inspected? It is a completely gaffed deck. So there's no way in the world you can hand this out. What's the overall quality and production value of the video? It is filmed with a steadicam in a very dark room. Mostly it's Matthew talking to the camera, but you do get a few table shots. Interestingly, Matthew even does a kind of magic cam live demo like out in the real world where he has the camera like mounted to his chest and you get to see what he sees. So that's kind of cool. I've never actually seen that before. And there are some instances where the microphone though is recorded at different levels and so while you're watching it, the sound goes really loud or really quiet. You know when the scene changes. So there is just that. What's taught on the DVD? Matthew goes over all the workings, including the psychology behind the images that people will more than likely think of. The ad copy says no difficult slides and Matthew does teach this with a simple card force and a palm to pocket. But it is possible to do this effect without a load, but it's just not as strong. But for such a simple effect that could probably be taught in a matter of minutes, Matthew does go over every single nuance, including performing this as comedy as he does or serious. Matthew will also cover multiple outs. So the effect is 100% sure. Is it well made? It is a custom bicycle deck. It is done in a blue mandolin back. And like I said, it's completely custom like this was printed this way from United States playing card company. So you are getting the best of the best. How much practice does this require? Like I said, Matthew is going to cover everything as far as doing this with no slides or slides. Of course, it's going to come across better the more you put into it. So the more slides you're able to do, the more memory work you're able to do the better. How much setup and reset is there? This is only a deck stack. And it's a really simple deck stack that you already know. I guarantee it. I guarantee you already know it. And so putting it back into deck order is super simple. positives. Alright, so what are the positives to visions? Matthew Wright is an amazing creator and mentalist. His latest card trick does not disappoint. It's great for comedy magic, or the series performer and it's taught for all skill levels and comes with everything you need. negatives. Alright, so 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. This has come under fire from some critics. And I kind of agree. The markings on the back of the cards are hard to read. If you don't have good eyesight, if you have to wear reading glasses, or you need glasses to see things up close, you will need your glasses. And there's a chance there is a slight possibility that the markings might be too small for you. That could be a bummer. But there are ways around it. Of course, there are bicycle cards out there that do have markings on them that are larger. And so you can definitely buy one of those type decks and supplement, which is what I think I would do. Or another great workaround is just to make your own markings. You know, the backs of the cards are rarely seen in this effect. You could easily make your own marked backs that you could read and it would fly right by your spectators. And I think that is probably the best idea doesn't have any arts and crafts, it does. You will need to assemble this deck. It is based on a very old magic principle that you will have to kind of put together yourself. Matthew does give you the parts required to do that. However, again, you could supplement your favorite way to do this and make it your own. Is it worth your money? It's 30 bucks. It's 30 bucks. And like I said, you get a one hour video and a completely customized printed deck. So it's definitely worth your money. I think if this is something that you are interested in, please check out visions from Matthew Wright. Who would like this? Fans of metalism, fans of card tricks. Like the way Matthew does it as a comedy card trick, I think is very funny and you don't have to be a mentalist to do a trick like this. I think it still can come across as a card trick. But if you're a more serious mentalist, you could play it that way as well. So I think it's very versatile. Alright, so that is visions from Matthew Wright. As always, I want to thank Murphy's Magic Supplies for allowing me to have this trick so that I could do the review for you. And if you would like to purchase this for yourself, you can find it from your very favorite Murphy's Magic retailer. Thanks. Bye