 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 the Count from Alex Pandrea and the Blue Crown. What is the Count? It's basically Alex Pandrea's version of the any card at any number routine. Very familiar routine with a lot of magicians. It's always great to see a new version. You want to see what it looks like? This is it. Hey everybody, I'm Alex Pandrea and I want to welcome you to the Count. The Count is my version of the any card at any number type plot or the card at any number or any sort of version of that you might already be familiar with. The Count lets you take this plot and make it your own. There's many different versions that we're going to go into from the traditional any card at any number to a card at any number to a stop trick and so on and so forth. I always loved the any card at any number plot but I always felt there was a lot of setup involved and it was hard to do on the spot. With the Count you can do it with a borrowed deck. Everything is clean and the spectator does all the work. Without further ado, welcome to the Count. All right so that was Alex Pandrea. He is the CEO of the Blue Crown and the Count basically is DVD that describes his own take on the any card at any number routine. Now this trick is a total hands-off miracle. It could be completely done in the spectator's hand with a little help and with a spectator selects a card in a very fair way. They deal down from a shoveled deck. They can stop anywhere they want and the selected card is then lost further in the middle of the pack and then without touching the pack at all the magician has complete control as to what number the location will be in the deck or it can also be done with the spectator names and number that can also be done where the magician names the number. There's six different versions of this effect taught on this trick and it's a pretty cool plot. 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? You're going to get a DVD and a box. DVD is 33 minutes long. There's nothing extra that you will need. No gas, no bells, no whistles, no trap doors. Is it what I thought? Actually from watching the trailer I already kind of had one idea then Alex shatters that idea when you realize he never looks at the faces of the cards to do the trick and so once you see the solution I don't think you'll be shocked. It is a very old system that he's using but it's a nice addition to this familiar plot. How are the angles on this? It's completely angle proof. There's nothing on this trick for the spectator to catch. Can it be inspected? The deck you use could be borrowed and so there's nothing again for the spectator to find. What's the overall quality and production value of the DVD? The entire DVD was shot in a home. It's very beautiful, it's very white. Alex is also dressed in white and he's using his familiar knock decks. There's a performance camera view and then a reveal explanation camera view. They're not exactly the same but the demonstration where he's actually telling you and teaching you. It is shot straight down onto the table on the performance surface and over 33 minutes of material he does definitely give you enough to slowly grasp all the ins and outs of this routine. How much setup and reset is there? There is some setup to this deck okay but it's instantaneous. It's very very fast. In fact he does teach you how you could do this on the fly if you had a borrowed deck. All right so positives. Positive to this trick are it is going to come across as being very hands-off. It's going to feel like in addition never touches the cards or at least it'll come across that way to your spectator and I think those tricks are well worth it. Negatives. All right so what are some of the negatives to this? Like they say around 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. The negatives for this are going to be the same that I had for the over this world DVD that I also reviewed. It's just that his performance videos just seemed like they were shot with a different camera. It was very shaky and there's grain lines going across the screen so like when you pause it it's all distorted imagery and I don't know if he's going to make that just viral feeling or live feeling but it just kind of felt distracting when the rest of the video was shot so beautifully but that should not detract you from the magic and it should not deter you from purchasing this in any way. Is it worth your money? Is it with your money? It's again it's a single effect. It's a DVD that teaches a single effect even though there's six routes you can take. It's still one basic effect. It's an 80 card at any number routine and so like I said 33 minutes he does give you a lot of material but you're going to make that decision for yourself if you think the price is worth the single effect. Who would like this? People that collect the any card at any number routines. People that are just big fans of Alex, Andrea or the Blue Crown. People that do card tricks. People that want to add another solid any card at any number routine to their routine. All right this DVD was provided for us from the great people down at Murphy's Magic and we want to thank Murphy's Magic for allowing us to review this for you and if you'd like to purchase your own you can find it at your favorite Murphy's Magic dealer. Thanks. Bye.