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The Essentials In Magic Series:

For Less than $10 bucks you get an incredible deal. This series of DVDs is one of the best "bangs for your buck" in magic today.

First of All, you get Daryl . . . one of the best teachers in magic. He's fun to watch and he makes learning whatever he teaches very easy.

Here's how I look at it . . . if it only cost me $10 bucks to learn how to make a statue of the Alamo out of wet bread and Daryl's teaching . . . I'm buyin'.

The Svengali Deck:

The perfect stop trick . . .

Card at Any Number . . .

Spell Anything to reach the Selection . . .

A Lie Detector . . .

Sooooooo many ideas (many of them original with Daryl) that you can do with the Svengali deck that I bet you never thought of.

You'll learn a ton of ways to legitimately shuffle the deck without 'ruining' the gimmick. Learn how to properly handle the cards.

This set of DVDs (Essentials in Magic) are really hard to review without sounding like advertisement copy. Each one is a training course on one prop: in this case, the Svengali Deck. Each video is very thorough, covers history, presentations, everything, etc. about the deck. They're all well produced, and they're dirt cheap. You can't go wrong with these.

Whether you've never seen The Svengali Deck or you've been using one your entire life or you used to use it but threw it in "the drawer," I cannot recommend this highly enough.

Final Verdict:
5 Stars with a Stone Status of Complete and Total GEM!