Daniel Schneider

Get fooled

Added 2022-02-06 13:41:51 +0000 UTC

The deck that you see on top are actually just two cards. This gaff will be one of four extra cards in the white DSPC deck.

I first saw this gaff card in a Bicycle deck. Unfortunately, I can't find the deck on the fly anymore. But the idea of creating the illusion of a whole deck by printing everything on one card is also not new and has many variations already, so it will be hard to give credits to the original creator.

Since USPCC is not necessarily known for cutting the cards as accurately as possible, I had to come up with an idea to avoid a weird looking card where the illusion of the stack simply stops when the cut isn't 100% centered - even if no spectator in the world will ever look that closely at the gaff card. Mistakes have been made by others that I want to avoid.

The illusion of the stack just keeps going, but it keeps moving away. A very small drop shadow on the top white card is to underline the illusion once again.

I completely removed the signatures on the back because they would touch the edge, and I wanted to avoid anything on the edges where you need to be worried about flashing something. The white back design is also perfect for this gaff. Theoretically you can apply this gaff also to other decks but the face won't be standard.

Hope you like this idea as much as I do. Let me know in the comments what you think and maybe you already have a trick idea for it.

Much love

Daniel