Magic Video - Nick Conticello - The Catch All Principle

This digital download from Nick Conticello unveils 'The Catch-All Principle,' a truly innovative concept in card magic designed to elevate your card control to an unprecedented level. At its core, this principle empowers you to subtly guide a freely selected card to a precise, predetermined position within the deck. What makes 'The Catch-All Principle' truly remarkable and deceptively powerful is its ingenious design: even as the spectator actively cuts the deck at crucial moments, the principle remains unyielding, ensuring the selection ends up exactly where you intend. This element of spectator participation, seemingly giving them control, only amplifies the magical impossibility for your audience.

Revolutionizing ACAAN Effects

One of the most profound applications of 'The Catch-All Principle' lies in its potential for 'Any Card At Any Number' (ACAAN) effects. Nick Conticello himself masterfully demonstrates this with his included routine, 'SODACAAN.' This technique represents a significant leap forward in impromptu ACAAN theory, allowing you to place an unknown selection at an unknown, yet predetermined, position within a pack that the spectator has handled and cut. Imagine the impact: a spectator shuffles a borrowed deck, cuts it, thinks of a number, notes a card, and buries it themselves. Yet, with 'The Catch-All Principle,' you can move the thought-of card to their thought-of number, creating a moment of pure, unexplainable magic.

Comprehensive Learning & Powerful Routines

Beyond a thorough, detailed explanation of 'The Catch-All Principle' itself, this download provides you with two exceptional routines that put the theory into practice. First, you'll master 'A Magical Aptitude Test,' a clever one-deck 'Do-As-I-Do' effect cleverly disguised as an assessment of your volunteer's magical prowess. Second, the detailed explanation of 'SODACAAN' will arm you with an impromptu ACAAN that defies logic. This digital download isn't just a collection of tricks; it's a deep dive into advanced card mechanics, offering insights and methods that will profoundly impact your approach to card magic and leave your audiences absolutely stunned. Prepare to redefine what's possible with a deck of cards.

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Original Specs

The Catch-All Principle allows you to covertly position a free selection at a predetermined position in the deck. It does this with the help of two key cards. The real strength and novelty of this principle is that at crucial moments the spectator is free to cut the deck, which makes it seem impossible that the selection will end up at a predetermined position - but it does.

Perhaps the best use of this principle is for ACAAN type effects as Nick Conticello himself demonstrates in his SODACAAN effect (see below). With the Catch-all technique it is possible to place an unknown selection at an unknown but predetermined position from the top of the pack. This is a significant step forward in impromptu ACAAN theory. I am curious to see where others may take this idea.

Besides a detailed explanation of the principle itself you will learn two routines that use the catch-all principle.

A MAGICAL APTITUDE TEST

A one deck Do-As-I-Do effect, disguised as a test of a volunteer's aptitude for card magic.

SODACAAN

A spectator shuffles a borrowed deck, the performer cuts it and the spectator cuts it. The spectator thinks of a number in the twenties, and writes it on a sheet of paper if he likes. He adds the digits of his number and notes the card at the total, then buries the card in the deck himself. The performer points out that he knows neither the card nor the number, but he will attempt to move the thought-of card to the thought-of number. The performer runs through the deck quickly and moves a group of cards from the center to the bottom of the deck. The spectator takes the cards, announces the number he thought of at the start, and counts to the card at that position. Amazingly, that card proves to be the very card he thought of.

Features:

1st edition 2015, 12 pages.

word count: 4728 which is equivalent to 18 standard pages of text