The effects, in no particular order:

1) The deck is shuffled by you, the magician, then handed to an onlooker. Let's say the onlooker is revered movie cinematographer Larry Fong. Larry shuffles the deck, takes the pack under the table, and takes any card. He remembers his card, buries it in the middle, and passes the deck to another curious bystander. Let's say this is TV writer Stephen Long, who cuts to and remembers any card. The deck is mixed. Stephen hands the pack back to you, the magician. You immediately reveal Larry's and Stephen's cards.

2) In another scenario, you, the magician, fairly and repeatedly shuffles the deck. Your hero, Marlo student Justin Higham, picks any card, and you immediately know — without glimpse nor force — the card he has taken, information with which you do what you will. No glimpse, No force.

3) Your spectator, leading mentalist Derren Brown, cuts to a card, remembers it, and shuffles the cards. For thoroughness, you, the magician, also openly shuffle the deck. While it'd be impossible for you, you say, to divine or intuit the chosen card, you have recently learnt how to memorise the order of the entire pack, assigning a number to every card. This way, if the spectator were to name their card, you can tell them the exact position of it in the deck. This is precisely what you do. Derren names his card, the 9 of Clubs. You think for a moment, then tell him a number. Twenty-nine. He deals off 28 cards from the top of the deck. The 29th card is his card.

"What would go well with a ticket to a NEAT REVIEW convention?"

The Notes come in a custom made, foil-block string-and-washer envelope made in the East of England, and the decks come in debossed letterpress tuck boxes from Southern California. The Notes commemorate the day, with inspiration and info surrounding the origin story of NEATCON, then run into the three impossible card locations. The cards were printed in Europe by Cartamundi and include a double backer, a unique double facer, and the hidden one-way back system