Awesome Cardistry

Magician Nate Jester shows off a neat card trick by Paul Gertner in which he takes a shuffled deck and then progressively unshuffles it into suits and then puts the entire deck back in suit and numerical order. For added flourish, the word “UNSHUFFLED” gradually appears on the edge of the cards. Here’s the same trick performed for a live audience.

An unidentified performer shows off their skills at cardistry and sleight of hand using a deck of special Blue Checkerboard playing cards. While anyone can get their hands on a similar Svengali deck, we doubt that most of us could handle it with the skill and smoothness of this magician.

Marvelous Decks‘ created this colorful deck inspired by our tiny feathered friends. Holographic foil can be found throughout the deck, while the tuck case adds sculpted embossing and multiple foils for added effect. Available in red, blue, or purple. The gilded three-pack is extra special. Pre-orders start shipping 1.2021.

While showing off his moves, cardistry expert notseano decided to flick a card behind his back, nailing the trajectory just right so it boomerangs perfectly back to the deck in his left hand. He says he was surprised, but the confident look on his face says otherwise.

From Bicycle’s Cardistry collection comes a deck with vibrant orange backs and fronts, accented with bold geometric patterns. The non-standard card faces have no pips or numbers, making them great for showing off your flourishes, though useless for playing poker. Their Air-Cushion finish is designed for smooth shuffling.

Kuma Films captured footage of another group of talented cardistry experts, Taiwan’s Lotus in Hand. Watch as they mesmerize with their impressive dexterity and smooth moves as they tour along the famed Nine Cornered Bridge in Kaohsiung.

These light-up playing cards aren’t playing cards at all. They’re props for cardistry performers to enhance their visuals, and to help beginners learn moves. Sold in sets of four, each one has LED lighting inside that illuminates a detailed pattern that appears on both of its sides. Available with blue or green lighting. (Thanks Kory!)

Designed for cardistry and magic, The Seers‘ latest playing cards feature a bold red and black geometric back design with an all-seeing eye at center. Their fronts offer high contrast designs that really pop, along unique, but easily recognizable suits, numbers, and face card images. The uncut sheets make sweet wall art too.

Designed by December Boys, these unique playing cards feature a twisty black and white zig-zag pattern on both their fronts and backs, creating for dramatic illusions for cardistry enthusiasts. Comes with four double-backed green cards for chromakeying effects in videos.

Photographer Darren Dyk teamed up with card wizard Sean O to create a cardistry video like none we’ve ever seen before. Everything you see here was captured using real fire, and Sean’s hands were coated with dish soap and butane while performing. Don’t try this at home.

Designer Luke Wadey’s playing cards are strictly black and white, and shaded with a linear halftone design that gives them a greyscale look. The pattern on their backs makes them especially cool for for cardistry flourishes.

A stunning display of cardistry talent, brought to life by thevirts to show off their FW17 playing card deck. While it’s clear they used slow motion and time-bending techniques, no CGI or strings were used in the making of the clip.

Bas John has been posting some nifty video loops of cardistry experts on his Instagram channel. He recently gathered them up into a single clip, packing a bunch of mesmerizing card manipulations into a 45-second video. The track is The Anthem by Onra.

Cardistry masters Huron Low, Kevin Ho, and Daren Yeow demonstrate just why their group goes by the moniker “Virtuoso,” weaving their magical and mindbending playing card moves. Get the same awesome yellow, black, and grey deck for yourself from TheVirts.

Cardistry master Noel Larsen-Heath shows off some of his impressive card handling skills, from spinning cards on his fingertips to floating them in mid-air. The last time we saw someone bend playing cards like he does, the guy next to us at the blackjack table got shown the door.

Master playing card manipulator Zach Mueller once again works his magic, making cards do things we didn’t think were physically possible and showing off his limited-run popsicle colored Pink Fontaine cards while he’s at it.

Zach Mueller shows off one of the most impressive acts of cardistry we’ve seen, as he manages to keep cards nearly stationary as his hands move around them, creating the illusion that the cards are floating. If the cards don’t mesmerize you, his intense gaze will.

The slick and smooth cardistry of Fontaine Card’s founder Zach Mueller is especially impressive when played at 60 frames per second. He makes it look easy, but watch his tutorials to learn just how tricky these card flourishes really are.

Huron Low, Kevin Ho and Daren Yeow of The Virts are back to show off their impressive card handling skills with Virtuoso’s new SS15 deck, with its vibrant and eyecatching color scheme. Sign up to get on the early bird order list.

A group of playing card masters in Singapore show off their impressive manual dexterity and card manipulation skills in this short film by Kuma Films. If we tried this, there’d be cards all over the ground.

A teaser for the 2013-2014 World Kardistry Championship. The contest sees cardists from all over the world compete through video submissions. Check out the entries of the grand finalists here. The song is Iron by Woodkid.

Cardist Eliot Slevin smoothly transitions from one card flourish to another, picking up the pace as he goes. The song is Chasing Greatness by Cas One. Don’t bother emulating Eliot; YouTuber tartman24 already did it for you.