 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 Leap of Faith from Sans Minds Creative Lab. What is Leap of Faith? Basically, it is a traveling card effect where the spectator's thought of card leaves your hand and appears in their hand. This was definitely inspired by Paul Harris's Strange Traveler's Effect and probably a little bit from the Princess card trick. It's kind of like what would happen if Strange Traveler's and the Princess card trick had a baby. You want to see what the trailer looks like? This is it. Being able to vanish a card and make it reappear in your spectator's hand is without question a brain-melting effect. Now, what if we took it up a notch? What if you could vanish a mere thought of card? No force, nothing written down and with only 10 cards. We have 10 cards. I think we have 10 cards. Have a look. Make sure all the cards look different to you guys, right? You hand them half of the cards to hold on to. They look at your cards and mentally lock down on just one. I'll show you the five cards in my hand. I want you to remember one of the cards, alright? Remember the number, remember the suit. Okay, are you ready for it? Okay, three, two, one. Do you remember one? You do? The one card that no one else knows visually vanishes from the cards and then reappears in the packet that they have been protecting with their two hands the entire time. Have a look inside your hand. There should be six cards right now with your card inside. Pull your card up, pull your card up, pull your card up, show to the camera. One, two, three, oh. What? What the f**k? And your card's gone. Oh my God. Pull out your card, pull out your card. A perfect blend between fast paced visual magic and a classic mystery. This is Leap of Faith. Alright, so that was Leap of Faith from Sans Minds. Now, a couple questions we always ask about all of our magic reviews and the very first is what is in the box? What's in the box? You're going to get the DVD. DVD is 49 minutes long and then you're going to get a few of the materials, a few that you will need to use to construct this gimmick. Is it what I thought? You know, I really didn't know what to think. Didn't know if this was be like a gimmick intensive or slight intensive and it turns out it's gimmick intensive and I was kind of hoping for that. It just wasn't as much of a gimmick as I wanted it to be. It's a beautiful gimmick. It's a wonderful gimmick. I can see that if you spend the time to make this gimmick you'll love it and use it forever but it is labor intensive to make this gimmick. How are the angles? I think one of the biggest angles on this is just light sensitivity. Being aware of where your light and shadows fall across lines in cards. And so that'll be something that you'll have to just practice at home and just decide what your angles are and how they work the best. Can it be inspected? You give your spectator a grouping of cards and those cards they can definitely inspect to their hearts desire. The cards that are in your hands however cannot be handed out. What's the overall quality and production value of the video? Sam's Minds always makes great DVDs and just like any other Sam's Minds DVD it's going to go like you've seen before. And then you have Jason out on the streets and he's performing for very excitable fans. You got Herman back at the Sam's Minds lab and he's always dressed stylish. He's always a very eloquent speaker and he's sitting on the white Sam's Minds couch and he's walking you through all the things you need to know. Is it well made? You make this and it pretty much involves every single card gaff making technique in your skill set. You're going to need to cut and paste and tape and glue and card split and you're going to have to take your time because this gimmick needs to look beautiful. It's going to have to look beautiful. You're going to have to take your time. I'm guessing if you do it at a nice easy pace and you really watch all your cuts and you don't make any mistakes, your first gimmick, this gimmick will probably take about a half an hour to build. How much practice does this require? This is a combination of both slights and routine. You're arranging the 10 cards so there's a little bit of a stack. Then you're walking through the routine and there's some very minimal slights, easy slights that most card workers already have in their repertoire so I don't think it will be hard if you're already an intermediate worker. Especially it won't be hard if you're already familiar with the Princess Trick or Strange Travelers also I think it will become a little easier for you there as well. How much setup and reset is there? As far as portability goes and taking it around and setup and reset, it's really just a deck stack of 10 cards. It's 10 cards. You put them back into the right order, stick it in your pocket or your little tiny card wallet and you're good to go. Positives. It's one of the positives to Leap of Faith. Leap of Faith turns a classically favorite packet trick into a modern miracle. Spectators will jump out of their skin when they see the final reveal. Negatives. What are the negatives to Leap of Faith? You know like we 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. It's a lot to build. You know I'm not a big fan of gimmick construction because I know I'm impatient. I don't glue very well. I usually get glue on my fingers and all over everything else. My lines, I don't cut them very straight. I probably haven't sharpened my Exacto knife in a long time and so there's that. And I really can't split cards very well either. So just knowing the amount of time that it's going to take to make this gimmick for the payoff. Man it's not something that I'm looking forward to building this gimmick. That part obviously I'm not a fan when I have to build things myself. Is it worth your money? It's 30 bucks. It's 30 bucks. And like I said you're getting the basic elements needed to put this gimmick together. You're still going to have to have some other stuff plus all the arts and crafts stuff to build it. It's just a lot to build on your own for 30 bucks. I feel like the DVD could have been a little cheaper, especially with what they do give you. Advertising-wise when they say they're giving you gimmicks, that's not true if they're just giving you materials. And so I wish more often than not people would be honest about what they're selling you. You know when they say gimmicks, it makes it feel like you're getting something that's complete, something that's going to work out of the box. What they really should tell you is they're giving you materials. Materials to build your gimmick is not the same thing as gimmicks. Alright who would like this? I think fans of Strange Travelers. Obviously fans of David Blaine or Paul Harris. Fans of the Princess Cartrick. Or just somebody who's looking for something very visual, very exciting and doesn't require really a lot of carbon manipulation. I think would definitely like Leap of Faith from Sans Minds. Alright so that is my review for Leap of Faith from Sans Minds. As always I want to thank the good people down at Murphy's Magic Supplies for allowing me to have this trick so that I could do the review for you. And if you would like to purchase this for yourself, you can find it from your very favorite Murphy's Magic retailer. Thanks. Bye.