| Below are the details that contain a specific magic effect, exclusively in relation to the techniques and methods based on and with cognitive consequences. Although all magic effects may contain techniques and methods from many different disciplines, in this case the pre-sensory and the different cognitive mechanisms that it includes have been identified. They are not easily standardized exercises since many magic effects that give rise to the same outcome can be constructed and materialized in very different ways throughout one’s internal life, using different materials and methods. That is, there are generally several apparently identical versions of the same effect, although they are not strictly the same because the methods used are different. |
| The effect chosen for its deconstruction here is the “Homing Card” by the magician Francis Carlyle. It contains several concealments and many maneuvers related to attention. As illustrated in Fig. 3, the game takes place in three phases, each phase is an effect, that is, each phase has its own outcome or climax. The main feature is that a card freely chosen by the audience and then signed travels surprisingly from the deck to the magician’s pocket. This happens in the first two phases. In the third phase, what travels to the magician’s pocket is the entire deck except for the chosen card, which is the only one that remains in the magician’s hand. |
| This effect is based mainly (although not exclusively) on successive captures and deviations of attention. It depends as well as on several physical concealments, including some card palms and card manipulations, that must be well executed to prevent the generation of contrast. At the end of the third phase, when the magician only holds a single card in his hand, a phenomenon of amodal completion makes the audience consider that he is actually holding the entire deck. |
| We present the deconstruction similar to the original, made by the magician Tino Call (see Fig. 3 and details of the effect in https://youtu.be/BVvmtv2D8MU). |
