 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name's David and this is a Magic Review. We also got the foundation from Sans Minds Media. What is it? Basically, it's what it says. It's a foundational DVD for card magic. You're going to learn things like cuts, different moves, different ways to manipulate cards and it's all going to culminate at the end with learning the ambitious card. This is a great bedrock DVD for those starting out in card magic who want to learn all the holds and handling all the ins and outs. Everything begins with the solid foundation, building blocks that pay the path to greatness. We here at Sans Minds are on a mission to provide you the stepping stones to become the ultimate card problem. Get reactions like this, even if you've never touched a deck of cards. To be able to amaze and become the star at a party with nothing but an ordinary deck of cards. This is not encyclopedia or a bunch of fancy moves. You go through the essentials that you can use in the real world and impress at a moment's notice. So, she signed this card, right? I'll just put this in the middle. Just snap me a finger. Have a look at the first one. That was your card. These are sleight of hand techniques that bridge you to the vast world of card magic. You'll learn to mysteriously change a card, disappear it from the deck, or even control where the card goes at all times. In the Foundation Project, a wide range of classic card moves are taught in crystal clear detail. With the Crash Course System, we develop step by step. Like learning a new language, you'll learn to entertain and arm yourself with the ability to amaze using an ordinary deck of cards. It has your name on there, right? Hold it tight and don't move, okay? Right, watch your queen. Slowly. Look like that. So, what are you waiting for? Learn to amaze anytime with a deck of cards. Welcome to the Foundation. Alright, so that was Herman and Jansen and Jason, all the people down at San's Minds Media. Okay, so that was the Foundation. Like I said, the Foundation is what it sounds like. It's a DVD where they teach you the foundational elements to card magic. Alright, so a couple of 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 getting a DVD. That's pretty much all you need. The DVD is long though. It's really long. It's two hours and 30 minutes. So it's two hours, 30 minutes of extensive material. All you need to do is just grab a deck of cards and you're good to go. Is it what I thought? It's absolutely what I thought. The only thing I didn't know what it would be like was that fact that the description of the video doesn't really say what's on the menu. Okay, so you don't know going into this. Is this going to cover a new material that I don't know? Or is it going to cover the same old material that I do know? So I would just say, is it what I thought it is? It's foundational stuff. It's basic card magic. Just so long as you understand that it is basic, basic. So this is like beginner level. So if you've already had some basic, intermediate introduction to card magic, you've already covered things like how to hold a deck of cards, basic moves, basic slides. This DVD is probably too beginner for you. What's the overall quality and production value of this DVD? Hey, it's great. Sam's Minds and Herman, everybody down there, they make really good quality videos. I like the fact that in a lot of these shots, you're getting the over-the-shoulder shot where you can see what the magician sees. That's cool. At the end, there's some live performances with Jason going over some of the moves and how all of the things that you're learning kind of build up into the ambitious card routine where they teach you that at the end. Sam's Minds always films everything in HD. You get really good mics. It's a really nice, clean set. So nothing too distracting. So it's a great put-together DVD. Positives. What are the positives for the foundation? Positives are, this is a utility that a lot of card magicians need. I think I would have appreciated something like this when I was starting out. When I was starting out, all the way up were books. And then a couple of online videos started coming out way back when, by a certain magic house. But a lot of those are kind of dated now. And so this is kind of a nice, fresh uptake. But the negatives for this, and I'll just add it right onto the positives, the negatives for this is I don't know that another one of these is especially needed right now at this time in the world. I guess every magic house that's out there, they want to have their own introduction. They want to have their own basics, especially if you like the Sandsmines team. And that's where I would kind of go with this. If you like the Sandsmines team and you like their products, I think this is a great foundational tool to use for card magic. But every house out there, every publisher out there, they have their own foundation DVD. And so comparing one to the other, it's like comparing apples to apples. I mean, how many different ways can you learn how to hold a break or to do a shuffle? It's the same material being recycled over and over again, but with new faces. So on the one hand, it is a really great utility. There's nothing wrong with it at all. It's well filmed. It's great. But on the other hand, there's lots of that out there. There's even lots of that for free out there. So again, I think you'll have to watch the trailer and then ask yourself if this is something that speaks to you. Is it worth your money? It's $35. $35 and you're getting just a ton of information. Two and a half hours of card slides, shuffling, holding a break, learning to manipulate the cards, learning to do double lifts, having that all culminate at the end to learning a really well thought out, really well plotted, ambitious card routine. It makes for a really great utility. This is a great resource. If you're looking for something to use to start off to learn beginning card magic, you can't go wrong with the foundation. Who would like this? Beginners. Beginners in card magic. I think if you are just starting out and you want to learn the ropes and books aren't your thing, I think this is a great utility. All right. So that was the foundation from Sans Minds Magic. We'd like to thank Murphy's Magic for providing this for us so that we could review it for you. And if you want to purchase your own, you can find it at your favorite Murphy's Magic dealer. Thanks. Thank you.