Decked Out

Ralph

Cool

Kevin

Lasse

Luke

Awesome!

Christopher

Jeff

Lawrence

Ben

Jonathan

This is a really nice collection of 4 short tricks by Bannon. The tricks do take some minor sleights but are well within the ability of an advanced beginner or intermediate. Don't let the simple nature of the effects fool you; they are keenly constructed and--as with most Bannon tricks--you get a lot of bang for the buck here. Given expert psychology and construction, minimal sleights lead to maximal amazement.

Question zero is a devious way to divine an (almost--but really feels like it's a) freely selected card. Buf'd uses a variation of Marlo's Buffalo'd transposition. Even being familiar with the moves, I have to admit that I was fooled by the entire sequence. The ace of spades and queen switch takes place three times and then the kicker--the ace of spades turns up inside the deck, face down among all the 4 aces. Misdirection aces is a quickee where the 4 aces are produced and a good prelude to The Esteemed, which is a Bannonized/stremlined version of Peter Kane's Jazz Aces. The kicker ending is that not only do the aces disappear, they end up together, reversed, in the middle of the pack of cards.

Sleights you will learn include the Bannon modified Elias shift (really quite excellent), lift shuffle, a simplified substitute for a Stewart Gordon double lift, Bannon's bullet catcher production, and a couple of unclassified Biddle-type switches. Nothing knuckle busting but all good to learn.

Ed

Joey

Bryan

John Bannon is my hero. He can simplify complicated things into a few simple combination of semi-automatic beginner/intermediate sleights. The mental poker starter will be added to my repertoire asap. I like the bold discrepancies in Esteemed Aces and generally throughout John Bannon's other constructions. But I don't think Buffalo'd is a good subtlety. It's either one of these two things: 1. It doesn't fool me or 2. It leaves a mental confusion. If I am not convinced myself, I don't think I can pull it off in front of others. The whole routine has good potential though.

Michael

Good information on handling cards. Great presentation.

Miquel

Amazing!! Such quantity of good magic in such a short time! Not only the routines, which are very beautiful, but also the details and techniques explained but this grand Master, make this video totally indispensable. Thank you Mr. Bannon!!

JAIME TREJO C/O

I never had the opportunity to learn the material of John Bannon until this download… His magic is simple, easy and direct. All the magic packed on this download is great, but my favorite is Misdirection Aces, very direct and powerful.

This was my first contact to Bannons’s magic and it was great, his books are now on my wish list.

John

Overall, this download should be bought by any magician or even someone who's getting into magic for the first time. Great material, especially becauses its from a great mind. Hope you buy it!!

Utah

Killer stuff! John is the best!

Carl

I'm super happy with this! I wonderful value!

Chris

Very good value here. The effects are strong, easy to do and taught very well.

Ben

KILLER! John is a legend and Decked Out shows why!

William

John Bannon does it again great effects from one of our best thinker.
thank you

Kevin

I've liked John Bannon ever since I picked up his Mirage booklet years ago. He is an inventive magician, and many of his tricks are not difficult. He is the reason I learned the Elmsley Count (if I remember correctly). His output is tremendous (in quantity and quality), and there are several more foolers in this collection. I particularly the surprise reversal of the deck in one of the routines.

Gene

William Scott