*A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.

There is nothing I love more, when it comes to simple pleasures, than the successful application of sleights to a deck of 52 paste-boards. Presented as a magical application or as honest to goodness cheating is not really the point to me. Either way the viewer is still looking at a deck of cards in a display completely unfamiliar to them for the most part. Stunningly and frustratingly moving, changing, vanishing without any explanation save for......sleight of hand.