World's Greatest Magic: Oil & Water - DVD Murphy's Manufacturing A collection of killer material

A collection of killer material from one of magic's most creative minds

one by one

MENTAL POWER - The performer correctly divines a spectator's thought-of card and then subsequently shows that the spectator had no other choice as every other card in the deck is now blank

"John Archer is as brilliant as he is funny

When the top cards of the piles are turned over

World's Greatest Magic: Oil & Water - DVD Murphy's Manufacturing A collection of killer materialThe basic plot of the card effect that we know today as Oil and Water can be traced back to the 1940s and a Walter Gibson trick from the pages of The Jinx. It was Ed Marlo who attached the name "Oil and Water" to the effect (in addition to most likely creating the greatest number of methods for the effect.) The premise of the trick is maddeningly simple: black and red playing cards, usually in small packets, continually separate despite the magician's