 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 Offset from Sebastian Calvary. What is it? Basically it's a reveal. It's actually not so much of a trick as it is just a very creative way for you to reveal a selected card, a spectator's thought of number, a thought of name, anything really that can come to your imagination. This is a great little tool to really add some unexpected magic to the kicker of your trick. You want to see what it looks like? This is it. So that was Sebastian Calvary. You might remember that he also did badge a while back. I reviewed that a while back. You want to go back and check out that review. This trick is published by Art Echo Productions. All right, so a couple of questions we always ask about every magic review and the first of which is what is in the box? What's in the box? You're going to get a big, thick DVD case. It's tall because you're going to get an entire deck of cards. Even though the gimmick is the box, the card box, they still pack it with all the cards so that the box doesn't get squished and you're going to get the deck of cards. You're going to get some blueprint printed out instructions so that you can continue to make more revelations. That's cool. Then you're going to get a little envelope that has some mystery gimmicks. Is it what I thought? Initially, when you saw the trailer, my first thought was it's got to be something like cardiographic from Martin Lewis, but it's not. It is, but it's not. When I saw this gimmick, I ran into another room and showed another magician and said, look at this. I've never seen anything like this. It was crazy. I played with the technology over and over again, just like back and forth. This is nuts. It looks so killer. The angles, they're great. There's probably any angles to this at all. I would think that you could do this completely surrounded and with good, reversed pattern and presentation, I think you could get away with showing this to anybody. Can the card box be inspected? Absolutely not. It is a gimmick and they will figure it out if you hand it out. If you're worried about that, you know, obviously you do this as an opener or as a closer so that you can immediately move the rhythm of the routine onto something different. What's the overall quality and production value of the video? First of all, Sebastian Calvary, English is not his first language and so there is an overdone on this and a lot of the shots are him from the neck down so that you don't see that the voice audio isn't lining up. The video itself is shot really well and it does give you lots of good angles and he does go through all the nuances so that you understand how to completely use this gimmick. There's also no actual performance of the trick on the video so there's no live performance. You never get to see, hey, this is a whole routine. In fact, there aren't really any routines on the DVD, really. I mean, he kind of shows you a little like, hey, you could do this, but there are more ideas. There's no presentation, because this trick, offset, it's not a trick. It is a gimmick for your revelations. You're going to already need to know how to force a card, how to do some analysis. This is only an add-on. This is a revelation so you're going to show somebody their thought of card or a name or the serial number on a bill. A lot of the beginning of the trick, that's all really going to come from you. Sebastian is just showing you how to use the gimmick and to make a revelation from it. Is it well made? Absolutely. Like I said earlier in the video, I've never seen anything like this. I wouldn't even consider making this myself. I wouldn't even know how. I wouldn't even know where to begin. This is really well made. You're going to love it. How much practice does it require? Very little. I was doing it right away. As soon as I took out of the box, as soon as I watched the video and figured it out, boom, I was doing it. It's really not that difficult. The positives for this is it seems like it might be a one hit wonder, but it's not. There's a lot of different things that you could do with this. Sebastian goes through all of that with you. He shows you that really you could add this kicker ending to a lot of your favorite magic tricks. What are the negatives? 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. No live performances. That was kind of a downer for me. I kind of like videos to well, actually the DVD is only 25 minutes, but if you're going to include, you know, content, show me a live performance. I want to see what it looks like in action. Second, the DVD box itself is a little wonky. My DVD popped off because it's only put on by like a suction cup. But that's nothing. The gimmick itself, the DVD itself, awesome. Can't go wrong. Is it worth your money? Like I said, you're getting all that gimmickry, a card box that's just going to blow your mind a 25 minute DVD all for about 35 bucks. I think it's definitely in the weird house. Definitely worth your money. All right. So who would like this? Mentalists, card magicians, anybody who likes that kind of animated style magic, or if you're already doing kind of some animation magic, maybe want to like move that one out and bring this one in. I think it could definitely add a lot to your routine. All right. So that was Offset from Sebastian Calvary. And I'd like to thank the Flying 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 at your favorite Murphy's Magic supplier. Thanks. Bye.