 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 Mutate. This is a torn and restored trick. It's not your typical torn and restored. You take the card and you tear it just a little bit, just a little bit down the side, kind of like it shows there on the picture. And then with just a little flick, the spectator is able to watch the tear mystically disappear and you're able to hand out a completely restored card. You want to see what it looks like? This is it. This trick is being released by Magic Tau. Now, you probably want to know why I'm holding it so close to the camera. Well, because it's actually this big. This is what you get. So first question, you know, we always ask about all of our Magic Reviews. The first question is always what is in the box? This is the box. This is what you get. It's this tiny little piece of folded paper and then inside is the gimmick, or I should say gimmicks, that you will use to do the effect. Now, of course, that means you're not getting a DVD because a DVD wouldn't fit inside this. So you're getting a code inside this for a download. So is it what I thought? No, it's not what I thought at all. But you know, to be honest, I really didn't know what to think. Watching the video trailer, it does kind of have a real mystical, magical appearance. And so without seeing the entire effect from beginning to end, watching it in an edited commercial, it was kind of hard to decipher what actually was happening. And so, no, it wasn't what I expected at all. So how are the angles on Mutate? There are some angle issues. There's some three-dimensional aspects to this so that you have to keep the card in one position and your audience in one position so that you're not casting shadows. So I think you'll have to be both wary of your angles and wary of your audience management with Mutate. Can it be inspected? There is some cleanup. There you will be able to hand the card directly out. You will not have to switch the cards. The card does not have to go back to the deck before you hand it out. You will be able to hand the card out right after the restoration and have it be completely examined. Is it well-taught? The DVD isn't actually taught by Arnell. The DVD is taught by Chris Webb. Chris Webb goes over very basic moves that you're all familiar with. This is not an earth-shattering magic trick in the card force or anything like that. All of the trick part is very basic. The only part you're really going to have to learn is the torn and restored aspect of the trick. So that's the part that requires the practice. Chris goes over the magic portion, the first part, the interaction between the spectator. He goes over that very quickly and he's relying on you to know how to do a lot of that. The video is only 14 minutes long and so a good portion of that video is on just how to do the torn and restored aspect. So coming up with the routine, performing it for our live audience, that's going to be on you to come up with. What's the overall quality and production value of the video? Magic Tau always makes really good videos. They are always done on HD. They're always beautiful. They're always full shot. I think you're getting exactly what you've seen before from their company. Well, as you can probably guess, there's some part on you to make it. However, it's not very much. It's very simple. It's not really so much that you're doing arts and crafts. It's that you're just kind of putting it together and taking it apart every single time. I don't want to give too much away. However, the gimmick that you're getting or the magic thing I'll say, the magic thing that you're getting will probably deteriorate over time or be destroyed over time. I don't want to use the correct word because again, that would give it away. You're going to have to take your magic thing to some place to find more magic things similar to it so that one day you can make your own magic thing and you'll be able to make your own magic things going forward. Does that make sense? Even though it doesn't require any arts and crafts for you at the very beginning, you just need to understand that your magic thing will kind of fall apart and you'll have to make new ones. How much practice does it require? Anybody who's familiar with magic should already be familiar with the moves required. This is not difficult at all. It should be pretty easy and pretty straightforward. Like I said, you're just going to be practicing your angles, practicing your audience management, and you should be good to go. All right, so what are the positives to Mutate? Obviously, it's very creative, torn and restored. It's creative in its appearance and it's creative in its solution. So I think it's two-fold. The spectators, we get to see a trick that we never get to see and you as a magician will be able to perform something that you don't normally do. This isn't your normal torn and restored. It's almost another trick. I can't tell you what it is, but it's almost another trick that's completely different and kind of added to this and it's done in a very creative way. I think there's massive props to Arnell for putting this together. I think it's a highly creative effect. So what are the negatives? Like we say right here, there's negatives to everything. These don't have to be the negatives that you see. These are just the negatives that I saw. Okay, so the gimmick does have a few tells. All right, it has a few tells. So that if revealed or shown or done incorrectly, it would almost give away that you're not really doing what you're doing because spoiler alert, you're not doing real magic. Okay, this is not feel magic. And so there are a couple of tells from this that you'll just have to be a little wary of. How much setup and reset is there? I think anybody who's already familiar with the TNR understands that there's always some. And with this one, I think the setup is very simple. It's really simple. In fact, you would be able to do it walking from one table to the next. That said, you will also need a duplicate card to hand out every single time because this is probably one of those effects where you're gonna give away the card at the end. Even though it's not signed, even though it's not signed, you probably are not gonna use the same card over and over again because obviously you can't tear a new card over and over again. You will need to tear a card every single time you do this trick. So you're gonna need duplicates in advance. Okay, so is it worth your money? Is it worth your money? It's $25. This, okay, this is $25. The gimmicks that you get are handmade. That is a plus. But just the fact that the video itself is a download. You don't get a DVD, so you're not getting much here either. And the video is only 14 minutes long. For me, for my money, for $25, I would have appreciated more video. I would have appreciated more live performances. I would have appreciated more, like, real-world settings. Like, show me what this looks like on the street. Show me what this looks like in a restaurant. Show me what this looks like in parlor. Like, give me some more examples. Show me, give me way more tips. Give me way more advice. I mean, you created this effect. So, like, Arnell, he speaks at the beginning, and he says, thank you for purchasing. And at the end, he says, thank you for purchasing. But he doesn't offer anything of his own mind. Like, this is his effect. And I would have appreciated more from him. I mean, I appreciated Chris Webb's instruction, absolutely. But I would have appreciated more from Arnell as the designer, as the creator to say, like, you know, this is what you do. This is how it goes. Here's me doing it. But that's just me. I would have appreciated a little bit more than a 14-minute video and a little tiny pamphlet. Okay? Who would like this? I think anybody that likes T&Rs would like this. I think anybody that has card magic. I think people that would like a very simple, easy, highly visual T&R would love this. If T&Rs haven't been your thing, just because you're not into the folding origami mess of it and they've all felt a little fumbly, this one's not fumbly. This one is not even a reward. This one, but this one's not that complicated. And I think that if you're already familiar with very simple forcing and switches, I think that this would be highly of your alley. All right, so that is me taking from Arnell Renegato and Magic Val. I would like to thank Murphy's Magic for providing this for us so that we can review it for you. And if you'd like to purchase your own, you can find it at your favorite Murphy's Magic dealer. Thanks. Bye.