Emilio Lander

So if you haven't heard the episode before, the idea is that we're about to maroon Emilio on his very own magical island.

When he's there, he's allowed to take eight tricks, banish one item, take one book and one non-magic item that he uses for magic.

And of course, it's season three, so he gets a welcome pack.

This is a normal deck of cards.

So let's find out what would you do with your standard everyday normal deck of cards?

I would do triumph.

I think it is such a great trick.

It's one of the first tricks that I've done in sort of like a walkabout situation, sort of not professional environment, but just doing it out and about to people that aren't magicians or family members.

And it's sort of one of the tricks that has also sparked me wanting to be a professional magician as well, because I got stuck in India for a wedding and my mum threw me in the deep end.

And she gathered all of the people staying at the hotel pretty much.

It was quite a small hotel and made me perform.

And it's just made me love this trick.

And the reactions that I get from it are wicked.

And I think no one knows what's going to happen.

You're flipping cards over, mixing them up.

And then all of a sudden you snap your fingers and then they're all the way up apart from one card, their signed card.

And I just think it's wicked.

So what makes this so approachable to someone just starting Magic then? So why was this the one that you put in your welcome pack?

I think it's an easier trick, and there's only a couple of things that you've got to do.

There's a couple of moves.

You've got to do one control, and actually, no, one move, one control that you've got to do in it, and I think it is a very basic trick as well.

You don't need a lot of skill level at all.

I certainly, when I started performing this trick, I didn't know hardly any controls or slights, and I managed to do it pretty easy.

So which version do you do? I do the slop shuffle version and it's just stuck with me ever since and I love it.

It's great.