 Hey everybody, welcome back to magic orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a magic review Hey today, we're gonna look at the psychomatic pack from Nathan Cranzo and anatomy magic What is the psychomatic deck? Basically, it's a deck It's a trick deck really is what it is. It's a trick deck. I got mine in red bicycle It does come in blue as well. It's gonna enable you to do some pretty cool effects. It is a forcing deck I'll say that much and well, let's just see the trailer. All right. Here's the trailer Welcome to the training DVD for the psychomatic deck Imagine if you could take a deck of cards shuffle it even hands to someone have them shuffle the cards They take a peek at a card and you tell them what it is from across the room. That's a strong effect Welcome to the psychomatic pack We're gonna get some shuffles. I don't want you guys to think that I'm snacking like I'm shuffling And then if you wouldn't mind I'll hand you the cards in just a second Can I have you kind of like riffle through the card not really riffle, but I'll have you like peel up The deck and I just want to kind of peek at a card The only thing I don't want you to do is to just kind of go through and look at a bunch Just peek at one because if you see a bunch of them, it'll be too difficult for me to kind of pick up the box Yeah, you know what I'm saying So just take the deck and you really can pick anywhere in the middle towards the bottom Any way just take it through get a card. Yeah, a unit sign. Okay. I'm gonna do that once So we have three people you all know the card. Yeah, that's even better That's even better and we won't even need the cards again. So if you don't mind, would you just throw them right in my pocket? Now just think about the card Which would you mind would you hold out your hands? It's gonna be cool. Hold your fingers. We're up next to mine Concentrate on the actual value like if it was six just keep thinking six six Okay, could be a face card could be a jack cleaner came with I'm gonna try this one more time one Five six seven eight nine ten I'm thinking nine or ten. It's a ten. I think I'm feeling is it a ten a black ten ten of space All right, so that was the psychomatic deck from Nathan Cranzo and anatomy Magic and you might remember Nathan Cranzo, you know, he did anti-gravity. He did animated gum He did shiver. He did visual voodoo. Okay, 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? You're gonna get a DVD and you're gonna get the gimmick deck the DVD is 26 minutes long and Gimmick deck is bicycle quality stock completely. Well made. Is it what I thought? Absolutely. It is what I thought It is a one-way forcing deck. That's a special one though it's strongly based off of the Siamese Spangali deck which Lou Brent wrote up in the Encyclopedia of Cartrex, I believe it's on page 254 and It's also been marketed in the past as the telematic deck which came out in 1946 How are the angles? The angles are great. It is a great forcing deck. I love it But can it be inspected it? Of course not because it is a gaff deck and we do not allow spectators to handle our gaffes What's the overall quality and production value of the DVD? There is one live kind of on the street Performance where Nate is on the street and it's good music is kind of loud But you can still tell what's going on and then the rest of the DVD is Nathan in like a living room set He is microphones, but the camera itself. I think it's just stationary. It's just filming him on the couch I don't believe it's HD But it doesn't detract at all from the teaching or the quality of the video. Is it well made? Like I said, it's bicycle stock bicycle quality cards again You're getting a well-made product. How much practice does it require? It could require very little practice It depends on your familiarity with these styles of decks. I think if you're already familiar with A Spangali deck or a Mirage deck. I think you're gonna navigate this very easily And I think this kind of goes hand-in-hand with setup and reset like how much setup is there? How much reset is there again very little? I think if you are already very familiar with some of the other more popular One-way force decks that are on the market positives all right, so what are the positives to the psychomatic deck I bought this personally and was introduced to it when I watched Luke Jermay do his extended tossed-out deck so Luke Reveals that this is the deck he uses for his extended tossed-out deck Bob Cassidy Also uses this in his mental miracles DVD And so when I saw those two DVDs, and they both mentioned this deck. I just said well, I've got to get it Nathan teaches a really cool David Hoy variation Using this and it becomes just an incredible piece of mental magic So lots of positives for this utility negatives. What are the negatives to the psychomatic deck? Like I say, you know, you can't hand it out can't be inspected Kind of goes along with understanding that it's a gaff deck. I think sometimes that can hurt us You know when people say, oh, can I see the cards and you pull them back and say no, but I think Using this as a tossed-out deck I think takes that heat off because obviously you're throwing it out of the audience and they're catching it and they get to Touch it. So I think when you do the trick that way it really kind of puts in their head that they did Inspect it. So I think those negatives kind of wash away In in a setting where you are able to do that is it worth your money It's $40 40 bucks to get an entire gaffed deck and the 26-minute DVD I think it's in there I think it's right in that zone of being worth your money and so watch the trailer Think about some Possibilities that you could use this for and make that decision for yourself if you think this would be worth it for you All right, so who would like this? I think anybody that does stage magic Or mental that wants to use this as a tossed-out deck. I think this is the tossed-out deck you want This is the one you want You know getting recommendations right there from Bob Cassie and Luke Charme Can't go wrong right can't go wrong. All right So that is the psychomatic deck from Nate Cranzo and anatomy magic I purchased mine from penguin magic comm and so should you thanks. Bye