Saturday Night Contest: SUNDAY Edition! (FINALLY)

[TheMadgician]

When a deck gets old, I'll try to make some new gimmicks with the discarded tuck and cards. The discarded tuck is also very useful for repairing worn-down gimmicks.

 

[scottbaird]

I usually write numbers on the backs of my old decks, used to quiz myself on a memorized stack.

Scott.

 

[Furrukh]

have never thrown away a used deck or tuck, I usually keep my old credit cards or ID cards that have been expired in an old tuck case, as far as the cards are concerned, well I use to for practicing DIY gimmicks making, I always use old cards to make a gimmick that I am making for the first time, when I know its perfect then I switch to the new cards

 

[Nikolay Karagyozov]

Well, there are a couple of things I do with the used decks :

1. Use them as cardistry trainers for block cuts (if they are that sticky, yuck)

2. Make gimmicks with them. Trying out new things with elastic threads, cutting.. basically ruining the cards even more.

3. Recycling the really bad decks.

4. There is a small magic community where I live with a lot of young kids that are crazy skilled. Some of them can't afford to buy cards to practice, so I share a lot with them, trying to support the art as much as I can. That doesn't necessarily go only for used decks, though.

Have a great Sunday all!

Nikolay

 

[Micahthemagician]

I usually use my old decks to make gimmicks out of.

 

[CWhite]

I give them to my daughter, who loves crafts and also is learning card magic.
I also use them to practice splitting cards.

 

[Patrix]

I keep the cards in my card case. sometimes I’ll use the case to hold a card reveal but most of the time the card case holds the jokers and ad card if I have a old deck I’ll save it for Saturday night theory 11 contest.

 

[Davis West]

I recently glued some of those old cards together to create a small packet. I taped that packet to the inside of one of my card boxes for the trick Cinemental. This is because the cards given for the effect don't completely fill up the box and would rattle around. Adding these extra cards stops them from rattling around and potentially damaging them. This is definitely important when using my card guard. I wanted to use my card guard for Cinemental but since the cards did not fill up the box enough, using the card guard would almost "crush" the card box. Adding the cards provides the right amount of pressure to fill the box so this doesn't happen. Also, to ensure that it's still easy to take the cards out I trim off the packet a bit before gluing.

 

[maher211]

I use them either in routines that requires writing on the cards or give them to anyone who started learning magic but dont have enough cards for practicing 😊

 

[Con-Man]

I'm a little late to the discussion but, I cut them and make them into 3D shadow boxes that highlight their unique designs! It takes over 10 hours per box, but it's a ton of fun!

 

[Christen]

I use my playing cards to make stands for other decks. I use complicated card stacking techniques to do so, no glue or tape.

Would LOVE to see one!

 

[Christen]

During COVID, the friends I had in my “bubble” loved it if I built miniature escape rooms for them. I built a whole story around the corrupted Monarchs, using the Monarch cards as clues once they just wouldn’t do the sleights I needed them to anymore. I also hide things in my card boxes, like a key to my lock box. Nobody suspects it because who’s going to check all of the 40+ decks?

This one’s an interesting one! I’d wondered what you were supposed to do once you were finished with cards, but apparently it’s different for everyone!

WOW - tons of awesome uses here! Definitely going to have to try some of these for myself!

Congrats Perplexity, you're the random winner of this week's contest! Please contact our support team with your details so we can send out your prize.

Thank you all for sharing your creativity ❤️

 

[Patrix]

Congrats!

 

[Gabriel Z.]

Congratulations Perplexity!!