Name:  X-Zone

Price: £46.99

Where to buy: Click Here

Creator: Katsuya Masuda

Reviewed by: Gary Sumpter

Effect as advertised:

The magician takes out a deck of cards that looks quite strange. A red deck of cards inside a red card case.is crossed by a blue deck of cards He pulls out the blue deck and proves it to be a full deck. Then the performer pulls out the red deck from the case, which is also turned out to be a full deck.

Comes complete with gimmicked red and blue Bicycle decks and instruction sheet.

Demo:

Packaging Quality: Typical Masuda plastic wrapping, does the job but generally the packaging gets destroyed when you open it.

Instructions Quality: Black and White photocopied instructions. They arent the clearest but you can make out whats needed.

Contents: Instructions, All required gimmicks etc

Prop Quality: Well made, must be a pain in the @rse to make for them…

Initial Thoughts: On the demo this does look pretty cool. Quite a nice visual effect. The method isnt what I expected at all.

After Playing for a while: See, I like the effect, but the method puts me off. What you are left with is two ‘decks’, neither of which is normall att all, so obviously a deck switch or two would need to follow this effect. Its a very odd things to see though and I think a lay person would be quite interested. Thinking more, you could very easily remove the first deck, put it in the box, then place that into your pocket. Then show the second deck and put it back into the case. You can then say ‘lets try something with the two decks, put your hard into the pocket with the first deck and bring out a NORMAL deck, at the same time place the second deck into your other pocket and switch it. This would obviously switch out the two decks pretty fairly.

First Performance: Blimey! This had a GOOD reaction! I did exactly as detailed above, I perfomed the effect, switched out the decks and then performed a ‘thought of card transpo’ using a normal deck and a brainwave deck, Nice!

Overall Audience Reaction: Very good. The routine I performed went down REALLY well. The Brainwave part blew them away but after they were talking about the first part, with the crossed deck, gits!

Pros: Clever Idea, nicely made props

Cons: Only that its one trick and oen trick only UNLESS you switch out the decks, but really thats no issue…

Value for Money: I can see that these must take ages to make, so I can see why they are priced the way they are. However the price tag is still a little steep for something you MAY not use. If you like the demo, thats exactly what you get (effect wise), you decide