Marksman Deck (jeu marqué)

par Luke Jermay

Lorsque quelqu’un comme Luke Jermay produit un jeu marqué, on s’imagine qu’il a dû bien réfléchir à la chose pour en faire une arme cartomagique ultime… Et c’est bien le cas !

Ce jeu possède de nombreuses marques sur le dos, permettant bien sûr de connaître la carte en question, mais aussi :
de trouver la carte précédente dans le jeu
de connaître le rang de la carte dans le jeu
de connaître le nombre de cartes coupées
de connaître le nombe de cartes rouges (et donc, par déduction, de cartes noires) coupées
de connaître la somme des points des cartes coupées

Le jeu est, en plus discrètement asymétrique…

C’est un véritable outil au potentiel énorme !

Jeu Mandolin rouge + vidéo explicative (en anglais) à télécharger.

Description originale

Magicians have used marked decks for centuries to fool even the most astute audiences. Luke Jermay’s Marksman Deck builds on classic marking systems, with additional secret marks that open up a whole range of new tricks and possibilities. While the deck can be used for your own marked deck routines, Luke also teaches five of his own semi-automatic tricks:

• Three Tests of Intuition
• Dowsing
• Card Peeks Routine
• Card Calling
• Card Memory

Includes a specially marked red Bicycle Mandolin deck and a 45-minute instructional DVD by Luke Jermay.

Usable for magicians but built particularly for mentalists, the Marksman Deck is jam-packed with information that allows you to do effects never before possible.

The marks allow you to:

• Find the current card
• Find the card above
• Know the position of the card in the stack
• Know how many cards are above it
• Know how many red (and therefore also black) are above it
• Know the combined total of all the card values above it

“Theodore De Land’s Automatic Deck premiered in 1913 and has been a personal favorite for four decades. Leave it to Luke Jermay to modernize the best parts and then add actual improvements. The Marksman is an absolute bull’s eye.”
– Michael Weber

“The kind of effects one dreams of are now possible thanks to this utility prop. More proof that Luke is an exceedingly clever thinker and performer.”
– Paul Wilson

“I’ve seen a lot of marked decks, but I think this must be one of the best ever designed. Jermay has not only done yeoman work in the design and placement of the various marks (which are pleasantly easy for the trained eye to read), but has added a number of unique marks designed especially for particular routines that otherwise would require a lot of difficult sleight of hand. The instructions come in the form of a DVD in which Jermay explains everything simply and clearly. I think the Marksman Deck is something you will actually use.”
– Richard Kaufman

“With Jermay’s Marksman Deck, you will hit the bull’s eye and perform deadly routines. Its combined features make it the perfect weapon in your arsenal!”
– Vincent Hedan

“Over and over, the debate ‘should a mentalist use playing cards?’ pops up in threads among enthusiasts of the field. I personally never believed the premises of the question itself, but here is a most cogent answer in the form of a new, brilliant Jermay release. Luke took a classic idea and turned it into something that has so much more potential than anything similar yet available. More than a utility device, this is a fully engineered system waiting to be exploited by the savvy performer. A companion book, with thoroughly detailed routines and scripts, will guide you in discovering this most amazing advance in the art of demonstrating psychic miracles with just a deck of cards.”
– Marco Fida

Add the Marksman Deck to your tools, and watch your mentalist abilities soar!