[MyMagic] Gaffeteria

Meir’s Muses
MyMagic eNewsletter #1,320
July 16, 2025

Here are three David Solomon DVD releases which include very special gaffed Bicycle cards (don’t worry, I digitized the tutorials, and you will get them as a free download when you make the DVD purchase). You can watch the trailers and see the main routines that use the gaffed cards. They are mostly easy to self-working.

But for me the value in all three of the tutorials comes from the bonus routines that are taught using a borrowed deck of cards. They are excellent, some use very interesting methods, and could have been released as standalone downloads… and you are basically getting them for free when you purchase these inexpensive gaffed card routines.

►Oil & Water Remixed:

When Ricky Jay first saw David perform this visual Technicolor Oil & Water routine, he asked him for permission to use it on TV.

Oil & Water is a classic card plot that David has been obsessed with since he first became aware of it. Oil & Water Remixed includes his best versions including the Technicolor Oil & Water which is a four-phase routine that is very easy.

The tutorial also includes two additional Oil & Water routines (Small Color Collision and Simplex Oil & Water). And as a special bonus Jordan Cotler teaches his version of the trick, he calls Oil Slick. You will learn versions that require gaffs, and those that don’t.

Watch and buy: HERE

►Thoughts Across:

A direct, devious method for the classic Cards Across plot.

To spectators mentally select a card from a packet of ten. Without any questions, or sleighs, both cards completely vanish from the packet, and travel to another packet which has been in plain sight the entire time.

Any cards can be thought of and there are no forces or sleights used.

The tutorial includes a self-working method and a more advanced version. You also get two bonus routines that can be performed with a borrowed deck of cards. You will learn David’s Double-Crossed Switchcraft and Pure Vice-Versa.

Watch and buy: HERE

►Knaves Gone Wild:

David Solomon’s Knaves Gone Wild starts off like many other card assemblies, but that is where the similarities end. Each Jack vanishes from its respective packet in a visually impossible way. Each vanish is different, surprising and easy-to-do.

The trick’s plot is easy to follow, and in the end, the missing knaves arrive in the leader packet, safe and sound.

As a special bonus the tutorial also includes David’s cleverly constructed O’Henry Jazz Aces, an assembly with an unexpected sucker-punch ending which can be performed with a borrowed deck.

Watch and buy: HERE

►FOR EVERYTHING DAVE SOLOMON GO : HERE

►MY MAGIC’S LATEST RELEASE:

►WOW 7: Kreskin Edition:

This is a very limited The Amazing Kreskin Edition that includes two books from his personal inventory.

It is an ideal way to present a mentalism routine while discussing the most famous mentalist in history and justifying the use of the two hardcover books.

You can read the spectator’s mind and write down the word they are thinking of. Ask them to yell out the word they are thinking of, then show the audience the word you wrote. They match.

But it is not over yet. As an afterthought have the spectator think of the last word on that page. You can now proceed to dramatically spell out the thought of word for a double miracle.

Watch and buy: HERE

►UPCOMING APPEARANCES:

Don’t forget. If you are near the Connecticut Casinos, which are the second and third largest in the United States you can catch me on Saturday and Sunday at the Mohegan Sun and Lance Burton & Friends on Saturday at Foxwoods.

►JULY 19: Spinnato’s Comedy Magic Show at Comix @ Mohegan Sun Casino in CT. Tickets: HERE

►JULY 20: Spinnato’s Comedy Magic Show at Comix @ Mohegan Sun Casino in CT. Tickets: HERE

►AUG 3-6: Displaying at Magic Live! in Las Vegas. Info: HERE

To view all my upcoming appearances, go: HERE

Stay happy, Meir

PS: On Saturday I will be releasing the comedy routine I have been closing my stage show with for more than 15 years. The trailer and tutorial are done. The packaging is ready, and I just picked up the actual props.

PS2: If you did not watch my interview, to learn how I think, you can catch it: HERE

“I use gaffed cards to augment my card magic effects yet I introduce them only after I have proven to the audience that I have skill with playing cards. I think it is only after we have established our credentials that laymen and magicians will buy an impossible effect using gaffed cards.”
…David Solomon (Solomon’s Mind, 1997)