Drop by Thomas Badar is an incredibly visual and baffling effect. It’s no wonder everyone in Blackpool was talking about this effect.

The effect:

You have a spectator select and sign a card. The card goes back into the middle of the deck, and you take two random cards from the deck. You let the cards fall, and one by one you toss the two cards back into the deck. You fan out the deck, and you see that there is only one card between the two cards. You turn the card over, and it turns out to be the spectator’s signed card.

But….. let’s continue…:

You now demonstrate that you can do this with any card in the deck! You try it with the highest card in the deck (in poker): the Ace of Spades. The trick is repeated, and two random cards are flipped over and thrown back into the deck. For a moment, it seems to have failed, because not one, but five cards have landed between the two cards. Fortunately, the Ace of Spades is among them. When the rest of the cards are turned over, it turns out to be not only the strongest card, but the strongest hand in poker: ROYAL FLUSH!