IMAGINE:

• Two spectators write down numbers, select cards, and you find their chosen cards at those numbers!

• A spectator cuts a freely chosen card into the deck, and you instantly know its location!

• Someone shuffles a mix of face-up and face-down cards, hands you half without looking, and your pile matches theirs, despite only touching your cards briefly!

• You lose the four Aces in the deck and find them by cutting the pack, revealing the last two simultaneously!

• In a stunning double location, spectators bury chosen cards in the deck and you produce the four Aces as a continuation!

• Three spectators select and lose cards in a thoroughly shuffled deck, and with a single run-through, you name each selection in order!

These astonishing feats and more are expertly detailed by Nick Conticello in the concluding part of Sunken Treasury, a five-part exploration of the sunken key card.

The final three sections include:

The CAFE Control – A variation inspired by Aronson’s UnDo Influence, allowing two spectators to freely choose cards from shuffled packets while controlling their locations. This section also features new insights on the popular Shadow Placement.

Utility Effects – This segment showcases effects using a shuffled deck that not only stand strong on their own but also enable the performer to position one or more sunken keys for subsequent effects. It culminates in a double location using a single sunken key.

More on the Radar Principle and Littlecount – Advanced techniques on Conticello’s signature concepts that, while risky, allow for remarkable locations of selected and sometimes thought-of cards. One method enables keys to be set by simply cutting the deck a few times.

Alongside twenty titled effects, there are numerous variations and surprises. Most material is sleightless, with only a few requiring basic techniques like a Jog Shuffle, Double Undercut, or Slip Cut. Conticello’s modern take on Vernon’s Cutting the Aces includes a comprehensive description of the Ossip Slip Cut.

This edition also offers insights on presentation, a brief biography of the author, and a list of consulted works.

Sunken Treasury Parts 3, 4, and 5 is packed with valuable ideas and information that every serious card magician will want to explore.

1st edition 2015, 73 pages.Word count: 29,828, equivalent to 119 standard pages of text.