 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 Thought Wave Extreme from Gary Jones and Mark Bendell. This was released from Alec Kazan Magic. What is it? It's basically a double prediction effect using a deck of cards. You're able to make two predictions and both times you are absolutely right and the spectator has a completely free choice. You want to see what it looks like? This is it. We're going to try a little psychological experiment here. Now it's very important that you know this was written before you made any decisions. I want you to have a look through and just get any one of the symbols in your mind. I'm going to draw something else here. I want you just to keep this in your hand because this is something that's going to come into play in a moment. The symbol you're thinking of, just draw it on this little post. It doesn't matter if I see it. I want you to close your eyes and I want you to imagine any playing card but don't just make one up. I'm going to try and transmit a name of a playing card to you. Is the card I'm transmitting to you red or black? Black. Is it a club or a spade? Club. And is it a pitch card or a number card? Number. Okay, what number? You're doing brilliantly so far. What number? Two. The two of clubs? Write the two of clubs on it. This is going to freak you out. While you were looking at this, I was thinking of the Ying and Yang. Now there is a way I can prove it because every time I do this people say you could just be saying that but there is a way I can prove it. This is a little deck of cards I created. Now basically all the cards are different. You can see that as we go through. Now you named the cards, you named the two of cards and that was a totally free choice. It could have been any card out of the pack, yeah? Yeah. But it was the two of clubs hopefully. There we go. Two of clubs. And you also named the Ying and Yang. But remember nothing was done before I wrote my predictions or not even predictions, the items I was going to transmit to you. So we'll go through here. We'll find the Ying and Yang. There it is. Ying and Yang. Perfect. So here we go. The moment of truth. Right. I wrote something down on here before you chose the Ying and Yang but I transmitted that to you. Right. I wrote the five of clubs. I know what card is on the other side of the Ying and Yang. That's why I transmitted it to you. Turn over that card. Show the camera. Five of clubs. That's brilliant. Now I wrote something or drew something inside that posted note. Open it up and have a look. Now I know what card is on the other side of the percentage sign. That's why I transmitted it to you. You said the two of clubs. That's what you picked up from me. Yeah. Turn over the two of clubs. Very good. And that my friends is for Wave Extreme. All right. So that was Peter Nardi and David Loosley. Gary Jones, the creator of the fact you might remember he did Unknown. He did Thoughtwave. This was put out by the good people down at Alakazam Magic. All right. So a couple questions we always ask about all of our magic reviews. The first of which is what is in the box? What's in the box? You get a real box. You get a real box. You get a DVD. The DVD is about 26 minutes long and you're going to get a really cool gimmick deck of Phoenix playing cards. Is it what I thought? You know going into this I really didn't know what to think and I've never seen a deck like this. Although I've heard it's a popular thing. It's been around maybe some of you who've been around maybe longer than me have seen this style of deck before. I have never seen it and so I was pleasantly surprised. It's very well made but it wasn't what I expected at all. How are the angles on this? The angles on this are zero. There's zero angles. There's nothing to hide. There's no slights to do. The deck is gimmicked of course. So to say can it be inspected? Can it be inspected? No it cannot because the deck is gimmicked. If you hand the deck out your spectator will find out right away how to do this. What's the overall quality and production value of the DVD? Like I said it's Peter Nardi and David Loosley. They're the ones that are teaching you the effect. They're pretty much sitting at a table in like a red carpeted castle like den with a fireplace and a bookshelves and it's pretty much just a straight shot the entire time of the two of them talking back and forth for the entire 26 minutes. I don't remember so much if there's close-ups but you really don't need close-ups. This isn't a close-up over the shoulder kind of effect. Like I said there's no slights to this so it's really soft working. It's very easy to explain. In fact once you watch the DVD through one time you're going to be able to know how to do this trick. Is it well made? The deck you're getting is the Phoenix brand. If you've ever seen the back of a Phoenix brand playing cards that's they look like. Sometimes Phoenix are printed from United States playing card company not this time around. This time they are being printed in Germany okay and so that's kind of important because I don't know that USPCC could have made a deck like this. This printer was able to make this deck and it is very very very well made. Alright so how much practice does it require? Almost none. I would say this is almost a zero practice trick. I mean as hard to believe as that is. You know I kind of did it once to myself just to kind of get the ins and outs but I got it right the first time. I mean literally like I said you watch this if you have any kind of magic training at all you're going to be able to get this instantaneously. I mean there's like one thing you need to remember maybe two but like I said no slights. It's totally soft working. This is a great great great trick. How much setup and reset is there? There's a little bit of setup that you have to do initially when you get the deck. You're going to have to write in a Sharpie marker on the back of the cards as per the trick. I mean it's pretty obvious in the trailer that there's writing on the back. Well that's you have to do that. So take your time. Find a good marker. Take your time. Take your time. But it's just that one time setup and you're good to go. Alright so what are the positives? What are the positives? The thought wave extreme. Like I said quality made gimmick. Barely any practice needed. High impact. This is great mentalism. Two predictions and your spectator has a free choice. Free choice. So if you're looking to get into mentalism you do card tricks already and you kind of add a little bit of mentalism in there. I think thought wave extreme is right in your alley. Alright negatives. What are the negatives to thought wave extreme? Like we say there's negatives to everything. These are just the negatives I see. They don't have to be the negatives that you see. Like we said you can't examine the deck okay. You have to build it yourself. But really there's no negatives to this at all. It's a great great trick. Can't recommend it any higher. Is it worth your money? 36 bucks. 36 bucks you're getting a 26 minute DVD and a really well made deck of cards that's probably going to last you forever and this highly visual high impact. Wow this looks like a magic trick. Totally worth your money. If you do card tricks at all or mentalism or mentalism and card tricks I think you should watch the trailer a hundred times and then push purchase. Who would like this? Can't say it enough. People that do card tricks. People that do mentalism. People that do both. People that are looking to get into mentalism but they want something easy. People that like easy to do card tricks I think would love Thoughtwave Extreme. All right that was Thoughtwave Extreme from Gary Jones and Mark Bendell and the good people down at Alakazam Magic. And I'd like to thank the people down at 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 wherever quality Murphy's Magic products are sold. Thanks. Bye.