Masterclass 1 – February 1st, 2026 (4pm ET | NYC Time)

Mittens
In order to prevent any sleight of hand, Tom puts on some oven mitts. The spectators lose their own cards into the middle of the deck (because your hands are out of action!). Just when it looks like everything has gone wrong, you reveal that you have one card in each mitten, and they are the signed cards!

Observer Effect
What is more impressive? The achievement itself, or the path to get there? The spectator names any four-of-a-kind and then chooses a card. Tom claims that he will sneak the selected card between the four-of-a-kind. Very slowly, and very obviously, Tom places the card between them. Not particularly impressive. But that was just the achievement. What if the journey was the impressive part? Immediately, the four-of-a-kind are turned over to reveal that the selection has gone. It is then shown to be face up in the middle of the deck.

This trick is a lesson in construction and how simple methods can be combined to create a very fooling effect.

Fruit of Fortune
You introduce a set of cards with different fruits, the type of fruits you would see on slot machines. After asking the audience if they’re feeling lucky, a series of impossible coincidences begins. Not only are they able to find the same card that you predicted, and place it in the same order, but they’re able to find three matching symbols in a row! Jackpot!

Homing Balls
Three balls cleanly vanish and appear neatly placed back in the box where they came from. It is clean, visual, and classic Tom Stone!

New Instructions
You bring out your childhood magic set and excitedly explain that you’re going to do a card trick. You dump out the contents of your set onto the table and pick up a deck, asking a spectator to sign one card. But you’ve forgotten how to do the rest of the trick. No problem, you can just use the instruction booklet. The spectator is asked to read out the instructions from a spiral-bound book, one page at a time. The last page contains a surprise. It’s the signed card… bound in place!

Among the Mad Men
This is Tom’s fascinating take on the Ace Assembly plot. In this version, you see everything right until the last minute, and that’s because the cards can also be identified by their backs.

White Death
Tom has created a wonderful routine that updates the presentation of his famous “Of Dice and Men” plot. The premise is that a spectator has to step across a frozen lake. But which ice sheets will take their weight? Well.. let’s find out!