SYNOPSIS:
Revolutionary Card Technique is Ed Marlo’s extensive technical study of advanced sleight-of-hand card magic. The modern one-volume edition collects the individual booklets Marlo published between 1954 and 1962, reorganizing them into fourteen chapters with updated illustrations and a detailed index. Rather than functioning primarily as a trick collection, it is a reference work devoted to the mechanics, variations, uses, and refinements of essential card techniques.
The book begins with visual card changes and then moves through the Action Palm, Fingertip Control, the Side Steal, and numerous methods for secretly palming cards from a tabled deck. Two chapters examine the Faro Shuffle and its applications, while three substantial sections cover second, center, and bottom dealing. The final chapters explore multiple shifts, card switches, and estimation—the ability to judge or locate positions within the deck without counting openly.
Marlo’s characteristic approach is exhaustive. A single sleight may be followed by alternate grips, cover actions, related controls, applications, performance ideas, and solutions to handling problems. Complete effects are included to demonstrate the techniques, but the book’s main purpose is to provide serious card workers with a broad technical toolkit rather than a ready-made performance repertoire.

Book Details:
Author/Creator: Ed Marlo
Publisher: Magic Inc.
Publication Year: 2003
Subjects: Cards
Pages: 538
Skill Level: Advanced
Availability: Penguin, Vanishing Inc.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Dedication (p. v)
• Preface by Bill Malone (p. ix)
• Introduction by David Ben (p. xi)
• Cardician Marlo by Frances Marshall (p. xiii)
• Acknowledgements (p. xv)
• Detailed Contents (p. xvii)
Chapters
• I Miracle Card Changes (p. 1)
• II Action Palm (p. 19)
• III Fingertip Control (p. 57)
• IV The Side Steal (p. 73)
• V The Tabled Palm (p. 123)
• VI The Faro Shuffle (p. 153)
• VII Faro Notes (p. 181)
• VIII Seconds, Centers and Bottoms (Part One) (p. 233)
• IX Seconds, Centers and Bottoms (Part Two) (p. 275)
• X Seconds, Centers and Bottoms (Part Three) (p. 313)
• XI The Multiple Shift (p. 351)
• XII Card Switches (p. 407)
• XIII Estimation (Part One) (p. 467)
• XIV Estimation (Part Two) (p. 479)
• Index (p. 529)
INDEX
• 15-K-11 Speller (p. 503)
• 26th Card Faro Check (p. 161)
• 7-5-2 (p. 505)
• 76-76-67-67 (p. 201)
• A Simpler Sequence (p. 421)
• A Third Sequence (p. 422)
• About Noise (p. 345)
• Above Crimp Faro (p. 172)
• Ace Assembly Variation (p. 27)
• Aces and Numbers (p. 387)
• Added Technique Wiersbie Deal (p. 302)
• Adjustment Misdirection (p. 129)
• After The Cut (p. 51)
• Almost Standard (p. 88)
• Alternative Procedures, Faro (p. 210)
• An Impressive Sequence (p. 418)
• Angle Palm Steal (p. 127)
• Angle Palm Switch (p. 467)
• Angle Palm Transfer (p. 143)
• Another Handling (p. 112)
• Automatic Gauge Method (p. 469)
• Automatic Placement, Faro (p. 212)
• Back End Estimation (p. 481)
• Backward Deal (p. 343)
• Basic Position (p. 56)
• Bits of Misdirection (p. 45)
• Block Shift To The Top (p. 396)
• Block Shift Variations (p. 400)
• Bold Steal (p. 80)
• Bold Stop Effect (p. 82)
• Bottom Bold Steal (p. 82)
• Bottom Deal (p. 236)
• Bottom Deal Count (p. 239)
• Brush Palm (p. 44)
• Butt Faro (p. 168)
• Card From Pocket Ideas (p. 54)
• Card Switch Transfer (p. 417)
• Card Transfer (p. 149)
• Center Block Palm (p. 146)
• Center Deal (p. 313)
• Chain Calculator (p. 190)
• Changing Palm Positions (p. 409)
• Chosen Card Count Down (p. 476)
• Clip Bottom Deal (p. 271)
• Clip Steal (p. 90)
• Clip Steal (p. 31)
• Clip Steal Color Change (p. 92)
• Clip Steal Cover Up (p. 113)
• Clip Steal to Bottom (p. 92)
• Color Steal (p. 86)
• Combining Riffle Shuffles & Faros (p. 176)
• Commercial Double Peek Force (p. 68)
• Comparison Method (p. 468)
• Control of the Aces (p. 194)
• Count Cop (p. 24)
• Count Cop and Transfer (p. 26)
• Count Cop Exchange (p. 28)
• Count Cop For A Number of Cards (p. 25)
• Count Cop For Small Packets (p. 25)
• Count Cop for the Left Hand (p. 28)
• Cover Ups (p. 342)
• Crimped Ace (p. 386)
• Cull Palm (p. 35)
• Cull Palm Replacement (p. 36)
• Curled Forefinger (p. 78)
• Cut and Riffle Shuffle (p. 62)
• Cut Estimate (p. 482)
• Cutting At 26 (p. 160)
• D’Amico One Hand Second (p. 283)
• D’Amico Variation (p. 287)
• D’Amico’s Cull Palm Effect (p. 36)
• D’Amico’s Latest Method (p. 525)
• D’Amico’s Multiple Shift (p. 381)
• D’Amico’s Variation_ (p. 294)
• Deep Bottom Deal (p. 269)
• Deep Second (p. 276)
• Delayed Action Palm (p. 21)
• Delayed One Hand Palm (p. 48)
• Delayed Replacement (p. 52)
• Deliberate Side Steal (p. 77)
• Diagonal Steal (p. 109)
• Direct Full Palm (p. 149)
• Direct Insertion Steal (p. 107)
• Direct Rear Palm (p. 147)
• Double Action Palms (p. 42)
• Double Deal (p. 237)
• Double Peek Face Up Locators (p. 506)
• Double Peek Force (p. 64)
• Double Peek Force (p. 66)
• Double Step for Unknown Cards (p. 67)
• Niel Elias Multiple Shift (p. 360)
• Downward Deal (p. 342)
• Dribble Stop (p. 526)
• Dribbling Spectator (p. 527)
• Drop Cover (p. 47)
• Drop Cut Palm (p. 41)
• Easy Palm Transfer (p. 54)
• Easy Unit Control (p. 333)
• Effect with Misdirection Palm (p. 34)
• Effect with the Count Cop (p. 29)
• Effect with the Cull Palm (p. 36)
• Effects Using Marlo Card Switch (p. 433)
• Effects with the Pressure Fan Palm (p. 38)
• End Jog (p. 319)
• Estimation Demonstration (p. 485)
• Exhibition Center Deal (p. 313)
• Exhibitionism, False Deals (p. 331)
• Expert’s Dunbury (p. 320)
• Face Up Assembly (p. 328)
• Face Up Elimination (p. 139)
• Face Up Finder (p. 522)
• Fake Transfer (p. 54)
• False Shuffle Combination (p. 206)
• Fan Deal (p. 335)
• Fan Spread and Weave (p. 159)
• Fan Spread Estimate (p. 485)
• Faro Aids (p. 158)
• Faro as a Control (p. 182)
• Faro Calculator (p. 188)
• Faro Check, Mechanical Estimation (p. 474)
• Faro Foolers (p. 214)
• Faro Riffle Shuffle (p. 162)
• Faro Shuffle Shift (p. 379)
• Finger Flutter (p. 88)
• Fingertip Face Up Locator (p. 505)
• Fingertip Location (p. 499)
• Fingertip Miracle (p. 203)
• Fingertip Riffle Estimation (p. 483)
• First Side Steal Cover up (p. 111)
• Flat Card Pickup (p. 410)
• Flat Palm Steal (p. 126)
• Flat Rear Palm to Rear Angle Palm (p. 411)
• Follow the Ace (The Sleeve Change) (p. 15)
• For Two Cards Undetermined (p. 185)
• Forced Estimation (p. 59)
• Forced Estimation for Two Cards (p. 59)
• Fourth Finger Table (p. 162)
• From Out of Nowhere (p. 287)
• Full Buckle Palm (p. 144)
• Full Deck – Five Faros (p. 204)
• Full Left Hand Steal (p. 106)
• Further Alignment Move Switches (p. 424)
• Getting Into the Palm Position (p. 411)
• Half and Half Principle (p. 174)
• Half Plus One (p. 175)
• Havana Deal (p. 244)
• He’s My Partner (p. 330)
• Holding Out (p. 53)
• I Think I’ll Stop Here (p. 477)
• Immovable Multiple Shifts (p. 390)
• In and Out Faro Shuffles (p. 153)
• In and Out Switches (p. 439)
• In The Hands Faro Shuffle (p. 167)
• Insertion Steals (p. 105)
• Instant 26th Location, Faro (p. 225)
• Invisible Aces (p. 331)
• Inward Deal (p. 268)
• It’s Mathematical (p. 208)
• Key Card Plus Estimation (p. 486)
• Latest Thumb Clip Palm (p. 409)
• Left Hand Steal (p. 85)
• Left Over Faro Shuffle (p. 191)
• Less Than 52, Faro (p. 184)
• Let’s Start Over (p. 330)
• Longitudinal Angle Palm (p. 131)
• Lost Card, The (p. 151)
• M.S.F. One Hand Bottom (p. 301)
• Magic Throw #1-3 (p. 520)
• Marlo Center Deal (p. 323)
• Marlo Miracle (p. 515)
• Marlo Miracle Stop Stab (p. 516)
• Marlo One Hand Second (p. 292)
• Marlo Sleeve Technique (p. 395)
• Marlo’s Acrobatic Aces (p. 404)
• Marlo’s All Around Square Up, (p. 363)
• Marlo’s Card Switch (p. 429)
• Marlo’s Definitive Fingertip Control (p. 70)
• Marlo’s Favorite (p. 473)
• Marlo’s Favorite Out (p. 512)
• Marlo’s Push Switch (p. 435)
• Marlo’s Side Squaring Glimpse (p. 404)
• Marlo’s Single Cut Shift (p. 366)
• Marlo’s Strike Unit Control (p. 341)
• Marlo’s Subtle Shift (p. 383)
• Marlo’s Suggestion (p. 526)
• Marlo’s Turnaround Glimpse (p. 404)
• Master Grip and Deal (p. 235)
• Mechanical Estimation (p. 468)
• Mechanical Estimation Effects (p. 475)
• Mechanical Seconds (p. 307)
• Memorized Stack (p. 202)
• Mental Spell (p. 504)
• Mental Stab (p. 508)
• Method Two (p. 500)
• Methods of Disclosure (p. 432)
• Methods of Unloading the X Card (p. 415)
• Miracle Card Stab Location (p. 512)
• Miracle Change Four Methods (p. 2)
• Miracle Change No 2 (p. 8)
• Miracle Change No 3 (p. 10)
• Miracle Change Variation With Effect (p. 7)
• Miracle Coincidence Toss (p. 519)
• Miracle Estimation Peek (p. 500)
• Misdirection Packet Palm (p. 35)
• Misdirection Palm (p. 33)
• Missing Finger Deals (p. 302)
• Most Flexible Shift (p. 384)
• Movable Block Shift (p. 370)
• Movable Jog (p. 350)
• Movable Thumb (p. 270)
• Movie Second (p. 275)
• Multiple Control (p. 65)
• Multiple Effect, Miracle Change (p. 13)
• Multiple Holdout (p. 84)
• Multiple Rear Palm Steal (p. 101)
• Multiple Shift Added Notes (p. 403)
• Multiple Shift Alternatives (p. 384)
• Multiple Shift Observations (p. 402)
• Multiple Shift For One Card (p. 358)
• Multiple Shift Notes (p. 386)
• My Favorite Stop Effect (p. 269)
• Nail Gauge (p. 471)
• Nail Gauge Variation (p. 472)
• New Bottom Stud (p. 245)
• New Deck PM (p. 199)
• New Push Out Bottom Deal (p. 236)
• No Touch Stud Deal (p. 339)
• No Touch Theory (p. 336)
• Off Center Faro (p. 172)
• Off the Face Seconds (p. 305)
• On Faro Shuffle Discrepancies (p. 178)
• On The Cut (p. 319)
• On the Left Side (p. 84)
• One Hand Action Palm (p. 30)
• One Hand Bottom Deal (p. 290)
• One Hand Bottom Deal (p. 248)
• One Hand Center Deal (p. 325)
• One Hand Center Deal (p. 291)
• One Hand Count Down (p. 249)
• One Hand Palm as Action Palm (p. 38)
• One Hand Stud Second (p. 278)
• One Hand Table Palm (p. 124)
• Order of Aces (p. 329)
• Out of Your Hands (p. 135)
• Out Shuffle Effect (p. 195)
• Outward Deal (p. 266)
• Over Count (p. 238)
• Pocket Estimation (p. 486)
• Palm Replacements (p. 48)
• Partial Faro Check (p. 169)
• Peek Force (p. 64)
• Pivot Bottom Steal (p. 43)
• Placement Shuffle (p. 193)
• Pressure Fan Palm (p. 37)
• Pressure Fan Palm (p. 58)
• Principle of the Wrist Turn (p. 343)
• Progressive Miracle (p. 196)
• Pseudo Card Cheat’s Switches (p. 446)
• Pull Down Estimation (p. 480)
• Push Off Second (p. 242)
• Push Off Unit Control (p. 326)
• Push Switch Variation (p. 436)
• Push-Off Stud (p. 247)
• Push-Thru Shift (p. 374)
• Rear Angle Palm (p. 408)
• Rear Angle Palm to Flat Rear Palm (p. 411)
• Rear Flat Palm (p. 408)
• Related Bottom Deal (p. 264)
• Resquaring The Packets (p. 159)
• Reverse Or Backward Faro (p. 205)
• Reverse or Backward Faro (p. 177)
• Reversed Card Out (p. 478)
• Revolving Replacement (p. 52)
• Ribbon Spread Palm (p. 131)
• Riffle Shuffle Palm (p. 39)
• Right Hand Steal (p. 107)
• Rise and Riffle (p. 50)
• Rise-Rise-Rise (p. 140)
• Rock and Reweave (p. 158)
• Rub-a-Dub Change (Marlo) (p. 439)
• S. F. Grip (p. 297)
• S.F. Bottom Deal (p. 297)
• S.F. Natural Second Deal (p. 300)
• S.F. Second Deals (p. 298)
• Sail (p. 247)
• Second Clip Method (p. 271)
• Second Deal (p. 241)
• Sell Or Delusion (p. 138)
• Sensitive Fingers (p. 514)
• Sharps and Flats (p. 297)
• Shifting The Grip (p. 249)
• Shuffle Palm (p. 20)
• Shuffle Replacement (p. 52)
• Shuffle Shift (p. 376)
• Shuffle Shift and Palm Off (p. 378)
• Shuffling The Aces (p. 192)
• Side Jog (p. 320)
• Side Jog Multiple Shift – Niel Elia (p. 359)
• Side Push-Off Second (p. 261)
• Side Riffle Estimation (p. 479)
• Side Steal Card From Case (p. 103)
• Side Steal Card Stab Effect (p. 117)
• Side Steal Center Deal (p. 319)
• Side Steal Concluding Observations (p. 119)
• Side Steal Dribble Replacement (p. 120)
• Side Steal Dribble Stop Effect (p. 115)
• Side Steal For the Purists (p. 117)
• Side Steal Palm Positions (p. 94)
• Side Steal Stop Effect (p. 104)
• Side Steal to Bottom (p. 96)
• Side Steal To the Top (p. 102)
• Simple Shift (p. 384)
• Simple Shift – Undercut Variation (p. 389)
• Simplest Push Switch (p. 448)
• Single Card Switches (p. 417)
• Single Cut Side Shift (p. 366)
• Sleeving, Climax (p. 16)
• Small Packet Second Deal (p. 258)
• Spade Multiple Shift (p. 352)
• Special Push-Off Techniques (p. 255)
• Spin Cut Stunner (p. 506)
• Square Drop Palm Cards to Poc (p. 41)
• Square Up (p. 50)
• Square Up Drop Palm (p. 41)
• Square Up Glimpse (p. 68)
• Standard Side Steal (p. 83)
• Stanley James Stud Second (p. 288)
• Step Center Deal (p. 315)
• Step Control (p. 66)
• Streamlined Dunbury Delusion (p. 304)
• Strike Bottom Deal (p. 240)
• Strike Bottom Deal Count (p. 240)
• Strike Center (p. 318)
• Strip-Out and Push-Thru Shifts (p. 372)
• Strip-Out Shift (p. 372)
• Stud Second (p. 246)
• Sudden Stop (p. 484)
• Sudden Stop Effect (p. 508)
• Suggestions, Card Switches (p. 416)
• Super Mental Stab (p. 510)
• Sure Throw #1 (p. 524)
• Table Edge Palm (p. 43)
• Table Riffle Angle Palm (p. 130)
• Tabled Bottom Deal (p. 308)
• Tabled Center Deal (p. 321)
• Tabled Palm Card To Top (p. 137)
• Tabled PalmAs A Control (p. 136)
• Tabled Riffle Palm (p. 125)
• Tabled Seconds (p. 310)
• Tabled Stop Effect (p. 135)
• Take Second Deal (p. 241)
• Take Techniques for Action Palm (p. 40)
• Technical Steal (p. 74)
• Technical Variations (p. 308)
• Ten and Ten (p. 134)
• The 13th Location, Faro (p. 227)
• The 17th Location, Faro (p. 226)
• The Circular Change (p. 437)
• The First Technique (p. 154)
• The Flexible Unload (p. 415)
• The Hit Deals (p. 280)
• The Jack Deal (p. 329)
• The Magic Card (p. 475)
• Three Locator (p. 502)
• Throw Bottom Deal (p. 266)
• Throw-Off Faro – Bottom (p. 171)
• Throw-Off Faro – Top (p. 170)
• Thumb Clip Palm (p. 409)
• Time Riffle Force (p. 59)
• Tip Up Angle Palm (p. 143)
• Tip-off, Mechanical Estimation (p. 477)
• To The Bottom – Delayed Type (p. 390)
• To The Top – Deck Face Down (p. 392)
• Tom Wright’s Multiple Shift (p. 383)
• Top Card Deal (p. 289)
• Top Card Return (p. 50)
• Traveling Double (p. 132)
• Triple Estimation Peek (p. 499)
• Turn and Gesture (p. 50)
• Turn Down Palm with Packets (p. 32)
• Turn Over (p. 49)
• Top Card Deal (p. 289)
• Top Card Return (p. 50)
• Triple Estimation Peek (p. 499)
• Turn and Gesture (p. 50)
• Turn Down Palm with Packets (p. 32)
• Turn Over (p. 49)
• Turn Up Palm (p. 31)
• Turnover Palm Card to Pocket (p. 32)
• Two Disclosures (p. 211)
• Two Short Corner Cards (p. 62)
• Two Strike Methods (p. 253)
• Unloading Switches (p. 442)
• Upward Deal (p. 343)
• Vanishing Card (p. 24)
• Variants On Automatic Placement (p. 213)
• Variation of Automatic Gauge (p. 470)
• Variation on Count Cop (p. 26)
• Variations in Faro Shuffle Technique (p. 165)
• Variations of D’Amico’s Deal (p. 289)
• Variations of the First Switch (p. 426)
• Veeser’s Bluff Multiple Shift (p. 382)
• Visual Retention Estimate (p. 483)
• Weakling’s Center Deal (p. 316)
• Wiersbie’s Double Deal (p. 300)
• With Two Cards (p. 55)
• With Two Cards, Faro (p. 185)
• Without the Deck (p. 446)
• Wrist Turn (p. 47)
• Wrong Hand, The (p. 207)
• Wrong To Right, Faro (p. 228)
• X-Ray Spelling (p. 505)



