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My name is Wayne Phelps. I am a professional magician and this is Expert Village.com. This
is a really fun trick. This is called a key card. It is more of mechanic or utility than
it is actual trick itself but a lot of professional magicians rely on this tactic to perform some
really amazing card tricks. It is well worth a time to learn how to do it. To do the key
card all you need to do is have the spectator select a chosen card. You do not need to know
what the card is and you do not need to know where they put it in the deck. It can it be
any card. For example, let’s say they select the 6 of spades. Now while they memorize the
card all you do is secretly look at the bottom card, you need to know that it is a 5 of hearts
that goes back on top of the selected card the spectator has. The card and the deck is
put down on the table and you give the deck a series of simple cuts, just like this. As
long as you do a simple one cut at a time, those two cards will remain together. All
you have to do now is simply spread the cards out, when you find the 5 of hearts, the spectator’s
card will be right next to it. In this case it is the 6 of spades and now you are free
to reveal it however you will; that is the key card.