 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 pieces from Christian Englom. What is it? It's a card triumph card triumph effect but with this effect what Christian has done is he's made a very clean very almost moveless looking routine and he allows it to be handed out and examined when the trick is done. You want to see what it looks like? This is it. Patrick I'd like for you to just take one card from the spread please okay and show it to the camera. Now you could have chosen any one of these cards but you chose this one look remember it okay we'll leave it here I'll shuffle the two halves face up into face down face up into face down very meticulously square now we have cards here that are face up cards that are face down and your card was placed somewhere in the middle yeah right now I'm not sure whether your card is face down or face up I don't know look if we turn the deck over maybe it's here let's put it really well so you can see I'm not sure if this is your card or if it's this one or whatever but please follow look carefully all I do is I square the deck gently and now all of the cards that are face up turn face down all except for the two twos the card you chose and it's mate incredible all right so that was Christian Englom you might remember he also did the cooler he's also on the Fat Brothers DVD series this pieces this is one of his signature tricks this is a effect he does all the time this is his card triumph and actually he devised this because Juan Tamari came up with a challenge for him in that you could have the cards shown in a spread to be completely and thoroughly mixed you then gathered the spread back up again and then without any funny movements or without turning the deck over you're able to second spread and then all the cards have been whited except for the single spectator selected card all right so 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 well it's not really a box it's a little cardboard sleeve and it appears to be DVD shaped it's the exact same size a DVD should be however there is no DVD inside of it you will be unpleasantly surprised you'll unfold this find no DVD inside this though are the card gas that you will need the packaging says that it's a gimmick and a gimmick makes it sound like it's one thing but it's really several card gas so very similar to other triumph effects that use card gas pieces is in that same genre the video portion itself is a 47 minute video download is it what i thought no way in fact when i opened this i had actually forgotten what type of trick it was and then when i saw the gas i immediately thought it was some other style of trick but then remembered oh no yeah it's a triumph and then so seeing the gas and thinking it's a triumph i was lost because i was like i have never never seen a gaff like this in my entire life it's crazy looking so glad it's included so glad i don't have to make it wow what what a nutty gas card how are the angles the angles in this are very clean like i said that this was a challenge that christian had to come up with to make this kind of move less triumph effect so there are moves yes but the angles are very clean and i don't think anybody is ever going to spot some of these moves that you're doing because they're so unique to the triumph plot can it be inspectable that's the whole point behind this effect is that yes it's a gaff triumph effect but it can be examinable there are some limitations with the examination process though and we'll get to that in a minute all right so what's the overall quality and production value of the video the video is well shot it's all studio done so it's mostly a single camera shot of just christian and another guy robert and they're just sitting at a table and discussing the plot and so the camera kind of just focuses on the two of them it does have some weird random royalty-free piano music that just pops up every now and then throughout the video but you kind of tune that out after a while 47 minutes you get a lot of material christian definitely does go over all the ins and outs that you will need to know is it well made you're going to get red bicycle stock cards with this and so yes christian does say that you can use a borrowed deck probably would help if the borrowed deck was red bicycle how much practice does it require it does require some practice i'm going to say quite a bit i'm going to actually put this in the intermediate to advanced level of magic so if you're a beginner i would say there's other um easier triumph tricks to learn and so i would say this is not really for you there are some kind of i won't say they're necky i won't say they're dirty there's just some more advanced level um card handling does require that you have a good feel over cards or are able to control cards especially stacks of cards very well um so yeah it will you take you some practice how much setup and reset is there it is a deck stack okay and you'll have to assemble this back into the deck stack uh if you do the borrowed deck routine it's going to be ringing things in and ringing bringing things out basically all right so positives what are the positives to pieces pieces erases all the moves and all the tells that a typical triumph has it looks super clean and it comes across exactly what the effect should look like so everything a magician knows to look for all those tells are gone it's amazing negatives what is the negatives to this hey like we say right 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 it's kind of implied when you're watching this that this is an effect that you have to do seated okay so kind of the nature of triumphs anyway they're usually seated because you usually do spread the cards this trick uh demands that you spread the cards and demands that you use a surface that allows the cards to be spread well so you'll have to be seated more than likely you'll have to use a mat and so that kind of eliminates a lot of people that don't perform that way that kind of eliminates people that do walk around uh or street magic okay this is this is not your trick this is a seated parlor magic style effect and so negatives it just kind of limits your performance venue i think christian performs this amazingly well i think it's just a good trick but like i said um it's just going to be a little tougher for you and i to do it because you're almost going to have to you have to perform this like christian does it's going to be hard for you to kind of adopt your own style to it you're basically going to be learning christian's trick and performing it is worth your money it's 30 bucks 30 bucks and no dvd in a box that looks like it should have a dvd for 30 i just would have appreciated a dvd instead of a download i mean there's there's an advantage to both i get it but for 30 bucks i would have appreciated a dvd who would like this people that want to do a super clean triumph people that want to fool magicians people that love the triumph effect and are looking for a new way to do it all right so that is pieces from christian englom and we'd like to thank murphy's magic for providing this for us so that we could review it for you and if you'd like to purchase your own you can find it at your favorite murphy's magic dealer 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