 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 journey from Matt Johnson and Murphy's Magic. What is the journey? It is the any card to any number routine. Five different plots, five different versions that Matt Johnson has kind of crafted together for you in this one compendium. There's a lot of good information in here. Want to see the trailer? This is it. Hey guys, I'm Matt Johnson. I'm here at the world's biggest magic convention and I brought with me the Holy Grail of Magic. I attempted to fool professional magicians with any card at any number and I did it. And what was the card? Oh my god. And I did it with one of the easiest, most commercial, instantly reset versions of any card at any number you've ever seen. I need deck cards. You got deck cards? No, not anymore. Deck cards? Yeah. Board deck. It's important I do this with a board deck. Okay. We're going to try something and then we'll see if this works. So deck cards. Brandon, name a card? The four of hearts. Four of hearts. Now I'm curious. Wow, these are cool man. Is this a full deck? Yeah. It is a full deck. Okay. I did see the four of hearts that's in the deck, right? Now Brandon, I can tell you this. The four of hearts is nowhere near the top. I can also tell you that it's nowhere near the bottom which means it's somewhere in the deck but we're not sure exactly where, right? That's where you come in because you're going to tell us where it is. So I want you to think of a number between one and 52 where the four of hearts might be. 12. 12, okay. One, kind of blending with the table. It's kind of full, kind of retro but two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. Not 13, not 14, not 15, not 16, not 17, not 18, not 19 but 12, yeah. And what was the card? Four of hearts. Oh my god. So it was the Jack of Spades and the number was 10. How cool would it be if the 10th card down in this deck, if it were the Jack of Spades, crazy, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. We're going to try this. You could have picked any card, you could have picked the Jack of Spades. I want you to hold the cards face down. What you're going to do is you're going to deal nine cards here face down, out loud, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and then the 10th card here face down. Yeah, okay, so go ahead. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. You said ten, right? Put it right here. Okay, and the rest of the deck. Okay, so let me see. Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think some of these cards start to get away. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Yeah, it's the 10th card and it's the Jack of Spades, so. You look great, man. In the journey, I'm going to teach you five versions of any card or any number, some with sleight of hand, some instantly reset, some with a spectator deal, some with a gimmick deck and some with a borrowed and shuffled deck. No matter your skill level or your expertise, beginner to professional, you're going to find something that you will use for sure. So join me as we go on the journey. All right, so that was the journey, Matt Johnson. Yeah, and a couple questions we always ask about all of our magic reviews and the first of which is what's in the box? What's in the box? You're going to get a DVD, okay? You're going to get the DVD and you're going to get the, I'll call them gimmicks, okay? You're going to get the gimmicks that is required to do some of the effects, some of the effects. Is it what I thought? It's not exactly what I thought. I've seen a couple of other different any card to any number routines, obviously, read some in books and so I think Matt has a very fresh approach to this plot. He does go on at the beginning about how this is one of his favorite plots. He gives tons of credit where credit is due, both for inspiration and where he's pulling some of these ideas from, but it just wasn't the any card to any number I was expecting. How are the angles? The angles on this are fairly clean, okay? There's five different versions, so it's going to be hard for me to answer questions that are typical to a review considering that each one of these tricks, each one of these approaches is a little different, but I would say the angles on this are really clean. Can it be inspected? For the most part, no. There is one routine that he teaches that is completely impromptu that you can do with a borrowed deck. Of course, that one can be completely inspected. The rest, I would say, you wouldn't want to hand the deck out and say, go through every single card. I wouldn't do that. What's the overall quality and production value of the video? The video shot from Murphy's Magic, so it's well cut, well edited. Shot in Blackpool, it's awesome looking. You got great cutaways, you got well done video editing, lighting, math the great teacher. I think it's a wonderful DVD to watch. Is the gimmick well made? The gimmick is really beautiful, actually, and it is very well made. You might not understand it when you pull it right out of the envelope, so I would say wait, watch the video, and then make up your mind. That said, there is some arts and crafts. Not the kind of arts and crafts that requires scissors and pencils and super glue and tape, not that kind of arts and crafts. More so deck assembly, okay? And a lot of that stuff you can purchase either from your local grocery store or probably even a couple of magic providers that will give you some of the special gas that you might need. So just know going into this, you're probably going to have to make some additional purchases to make a journey deck. What is taught on the DVD? Like I said, there's five different versions of the any card to any number, and they all range in setup. They all range in like what you carry on you, and they all range in skill from I'm a master level slight tradition to, hey, I just grabbed this and self-working. How much practice does this require? I'm going to go out and say this is going to require some practice. Even the self-working effect is going to take some time just to get your rhythm and your figuring out double thing, okay? I don't want to give away exactly what it's going to take from you, but I will say it's going to take practice. How much setup and reset is involved? There is a lot of setup, okay? And I think that goes part and partial with the arts and crafts. Like I said, it's not really arts and crafts. There's some setup though, and so I think whichever one of these versions you choose aside from the impromptu one, there's going to be some initial setup. Through the trick, each one that's taught, Matt does teach you how to get back to your get ready. He does teach you how to reset, and many times you can reset right in front of the spectator, so it's easy. Positives. All right, so what are the positives to the journey from Matt Johnson? Matt Johnson has created any card to any number that is both impromptu and a magician fooler. Who else can say that? Those proficient in card slides I think will love this approach. Negatives. All right, so what are the negatives? You know there's always negatives to something, and these are just the negatives that I see. They don't have to be the negatives that you see. I'll say this. As far as the DVD goes, and as far as there being five different versions, just know that they're not five different completely different versions. They're more so variations on a theme. They're variations on a theme, variations on skill level. You won't do all five of these. You won't do all five of them. You're going to probably pick one that you like of the five. Maybe two, okay? So just know that. He's not teaching you five completely different out-of-the-box tricks. They're all variations on a thread, okay? So you could just call the one trick the journey, and just you're asking, okay, which version of the journey are you going to do? Is it worth your money? It's 40 bucks, 40 dollars, and you are getting gimmicks, okay? And you are getting a DVD that has a lot of teaching instruction on it. And so I would just say read a lot of reviews, okay? Read a lot of reviews on this one. This is kind of one of those DVDs I don't want to answer for you if it's worth your money. I think you should read some reviews. Read both positive and negative. Do a little bit of homework, especially on the any card to any number plot if you're already not familiar with it. I would say this isn't necessarily for beginners, okay? If you're a beginner both at skill or this is your first time doing an any card to any number, I wouldn't say this is a good DVD for a complete novice, both either with skill or you've never done an any card to any number before. I wouldn't say you probably want to be a borderline intermediate level magician. That's just my advice. All right, so who would like this? I think collectors of the any card to any number. I think skilled Kardashians would like this. You definitely kind of might need a table for this, so I would be thinking about that too. This is an any card to any number that you definitely would require a table or you're counting down and there's going to be things spread out. All right, so that's my review of The Journey from Matt Johnson and Murphy's Magic. As always, I want to thank Murphy's Magic for allowing me to have this trick so that I could do the review for you and if you would like to purchase this trick for yourself, you can find it from your favorite Murphy's Magic Dealer. Thanks. Bye.