Yeah - it is a great article.
Allan Slaight had a routine with a similar concept in IBIDEM as well. It is called The Eclectic Deck and can be found in Volume 3 (page 765) of the bound reprints.
Also - Stewart James has tackled this theme as well. One is his legendary Robot Deck effect. And the other is his ON TO TORONTO chapter. Both of these can be found in The James File. The ON TO TORONTO chapter deals with the novel concept of stacking a deck for a series of effects from a shuffled deck of cards. The idea being you take a borrowed deck and as you perform each effect - you secretly set up for the next effect at the same time.
My notes on the Stewart James books may be of some use to you:
http://forums.geniimagazine.com/viewtopic.php?t=48263And you can read about the Robot Deck here:
http://stewartjames.magicana.com/P_stack_within_stack.htmllThis thread may be of use as well:
http://forums.geniimagazine.com/viewtopic.php?t=49041And also this thread is worth checking out as well:
http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=460701&forum=2From a wider perspective it is worth remembering that most memorized decks have this sort of structure built into them. You perform a series of a tricks that reset themselves leaving you with the deck back in memorized order. And then finish with a strong trick that destroys the stack.
I gave some thoughts on this area in a blog I used to help out on as well:
https://doubledeal.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/memorized-stacks/https://doubledeal.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/more-memorized-stacky-stuff/Lastly - when dealing with tricks where one trick sets up the next - the following procedure is worth using.
I am not sure who to credit but the earliest reference I have found (if I remember correctly) is in a Bob Longe book. Although I have heard others credit it to Jon Racherbaumer.
1) Hand a deck out to be shuffled.
2) Take back the deck - and run through the cards. You apparently throw out random cards to the table.
3) In fact - you throw out cards (face up) such that the ones left in your hands are in red/black/red/black/red/black/red/black... etc order.
4) The cards face up on the table are random. The cards left in your hands are in red/black/red etc order...
5) Place the pile of cards in your hands on the table - face down. And turn over the pile of cards on the table - face down.
6) Use a magician's force to force the packet of cards in red/black/red etc order on the spectator.
7) He shuffled the cards - saw you throw out some random cards - and then "freely" selected one of the two piles of cards.
8) Yet - you are left with a random mixture of red/black cards and he is left with a pile in strict red/black/red etc order.
9) Use the cards in his hands for a Gibreath shuffle effect. A favourite of mine is Roy Walton's 'Game Law' effect. The reason I like this trick is because the deck is not given one riffle shuffle (as in most Gilbreath effects) but
two riffles shuffles...
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That said - my favourite Gilbreath effect is probably Ben Harris's 'Invertz' from his book 'Off The Wall' and 'Magnetic Bipolar Miraskill' by Michael Weber which can be found in the August 2006 issue of GENII magazine. The Weber effect is great but it does make use of one-way backs.