With this simple magic trick you can powerfully impress any crowd with your incredible magic abilities. You can claim the strength of the gods as you boldly boast that you can easily and effortlessly tear apart a pack of cards with your bare hands. And as the crowd grows, so will your reputation.
Now you've got the whole crowd's attention. You explain that you have recently had a vision, and the ghost of Hercules has loaned you his incredible strength for a time. And that you have decided to use his borrowed strength to entertain the crowd rather than for personal gain. As you brag more and more, they become more and more suspicious. Surely you are making this up. You produce a pack of ordinary cards. Naturally, you shuffle them a couple of times, showing they are a normal deck of cards. You call on the strength of the gods one last time, and then easily tear the cards in half, throwing them in the air. The crowd is stunned, and you are a hero. All the men want to be you, and all the girls are in love with you.
Of course, this is an illusion, and here's how to do it. The deck will need to be set up before hand, so that it looks normal to the untrained eye, but is much weaker so you can easily tear it in half. There are a couple ways to do this. The first way is to take a straight razor, and cut every other card halfway across. Make sure the cards are all lined up, so that the cuts are all in the same spot. They will shuffle the same, but with every other card pre cut, you can easily tear them.
Another way to prepare the deck is to heat the cards in an oven. This will make them more brittle, and much easier to tear, but won't change their appearance significantly. Another way to prepare the deck is to take every other card, and fold it back and forth a number of times. You'll have to be careful that each card has been folded in the same spot, otherwise they will be difficult to tear.
This trick works best when you are in the middle of a few other card tricks, although you don't really need to do it that way. It would just appear strange if you were to suddenly talk about tearing a deck of cards in half, and then not be able to do any tricks afterwards. You're friends might think it a bit odd if you simply produced a deck of cards, tore them in half, and then started talking about sports or something.
And as with any other trick the way you build this up will have a significant impact on how impressed people will be. The more entertaining a story you can tell, the better response you'll get from the crowd. Psychic energy, ghosts from the past, channeling strength from aliens are all great ways to introduce this trick, and to get people's minds off the obvious fact that the deck has been set up. For best results, fling the cards in the air after you've torn them up. This will be much more impressive, and will be a great distraction for whatever the next trick is that you have up your sleeve. Have fun.
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