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History

I didn’t realize it but I began working on this trick at the 2o18 TRICCS con-vention. I’ve been a Ben Earl Fan for a long time. The Past Midnight DVDswere the first time I saw someone unapologetic-ally doing tough work andnot trying to take the difficult sleights out of their routines to make it easierto do. I was aware of his Paper Switch effect in which two playing cards trans-pose without the deck or extra cards. It’s very cool, but both sleight of handand performing wise it is a challenging effect. Ben taught the effect duringhis lecture and I started to work with it.

A few weeks later I was sitting in the back of a comedy room playing witha deck of cards as per usual. At some point, I realized there was a strangercard in the deck. It was a blue card and as an exercise, I explored doing PaperSwitch with two cards of different back designs. The modification was fine,but not fireworks. The result of this experiment was I started walking aroundwith a red deck that always had a blue-backed card in it. It didn’t take longfor me to start experimenting with controlling an indifferent backed card
through the deck.