Magic at War

Introduction In my presentation on Louis Lam’s life, I demonstrated a colour changing deck routine. A spectator freely selected a card from a red backed deck, and its back changed to blue. Its matching card, taken from a blue backed deck, changed to red. When the decks were examined, every card in each pack had also changed back colour. The routine combined two of Louis Lam’s colour changing deck effects: The Movie Colour Cards and Coloro . Both are explained below in Louis’ own words. [1] To combine the two effects, I made several changes. The first change was to use only one deck for The Movie Colour Cards . Instead of using a double backer and secretly reversing it, I placed an ordinary card from the differently coloured deck on top, so a blue backed deck appeared to be red backed. I reinforced this impression with the Hindu Shuffle Display. I then attached a small piece of double-sided tape to the back of that red card. [2] After the display, I dropped the remaining packe...