Description
Here’s a welcome surprise! The Ambitious Card Omnibus by Stephen Minch was a slim but dense volume dedicated to all the best phases of the Ambitious Card plot. There are standard handlings as well unusual phases that have been largely forgotten since its 1987 publication. The book is written by magic’s foremost author, Stephen Minch, so you can expect high-quality and detailed instruction. And Daryl is at the center of the book, thanks to his FISM-winning handling of the Ambitious Card routine.
What’s interesting about this new edition is that it includes a new chapter on Daryl’s “Ultimate Ambition,” which is fantastic ending for the piece, in which the deck is wrapped in rope to “sleight-of-hand proof the pack,” yet the card still manages to rise to the top. This phase itself is thirty years old, yet hasn’t been described in great detail in print…until now.
The Ambitious Card is one of the most magical and compelling in all of card magic. It has progressed since 1987, when this book was published, but this book provides an essential foundation of knowledge on which to build your own Ambitious routine. Highest recommendation for serious students and beginners alike.
Contents of Ambitious Card Omnibus
Introduction by Michael Weber
About the Limits of This Volume’s Ambitious
Section One: The Routine
- Introductory Phase
- Exemplary Phase
- The Double Turnover
- The Double Lift Build-Up
- The Top Change
- For the Unambitious
- The Bluff Pass
- Up the Falls
- The Pass
- The Paintbrush Color Change
- The Pop-Up Card
Section Two: Alternative Sequences
- Four Opening Gambits
- The Center Double Lift
- The Hofzinser Spread Pass
- Signed with Suspicious
- To Boldly Go
- Chapter Two: Further Ascentions
- The Push-In Change
- Tabled Ambitious
- The Outjog Change
- The Ambitious Miracle Change
- Layers of Conviction
- The Tip-Over Change
- Two Bluff Insertions
- The Tiltless Tilt
- The Daley Leaper
- The Impromptu Duplicate
- Four Fifths of the Truth
- The Whole Truth
- The Kagemusha Principle
- Ambitious Movie
- The Finger-Clip Colour Change
- Rise, Rise, Rise
- The Triple Whammo
- The Screened Leipzig Pass
- The Ultra Move
- The One-Handed Side Steal
- A One-Handed Sequence
- The Transfer of a Card
- The One-Card Double Lift
- The Ambitious Double Deal
- The Ambitious Twins
- Double Quick
Section Three: Four Finales
- Four Finales
- One for the Money
- Under Foot
- Ambitious One-Way
- The Ultimate Ambitious
Chapter Four
- Ultimate Ambitious Improved
An Index To The Ambitious Card In Print
