Conjuring Credits

The Origins of Wonder

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Inversion

The plot of the deck instantly reversing itself seems first to have appeared in a crude form courtesy of Bill Simon, whose “A Set of Surprises” was published in Rufus Steele's 52 Amazing Card Tricks, 1949, p. 21. Toni Koynini later introduced the modern version of the Inversion effect as part of his Ambitious Card sequence in The Wizard, Vol. 5 No. 51, Sep. 1951, p. 81. Bruce Cervon also used the effect with his “Kellie Displacement” in Epilogue, No. 6, July 1969, p. 43; reprinted in The Cervon File, 1988, p. 50.

The Inversion plot was later popularized by James Lewis, who added the name and outjogged-card feature in Michael Ammar's Encore II, 1981, p. 25 (credited as “Jim Louis”). Another oft-cited source is Richard Kaufman's “The World's Fastest Reverse” from CardMagic, 1979, p. 35, but he, too, was several decades late to the plot.

Chris Kenner has a well-known variant, “Perversion”, in Out of Control, 1992, p. 34. On the F.F.F.F. convention video, Secret Session #3, 1994, Bill Kalush claims this item is his invention and not Kenner's.