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It's rarely done now without some extra decoration, like the card appearing to leap out of the deck of its own accord, or disappear from the deck and appear in the audience member's pocket, or the correct card number and suit being written in an envelope that was sealed before the trick started.
As with [[Saw a Woman In Half|sawing a woman in half]],
In fiction, the bare-bones version is a
Another common fictional twist is for the card to turn out to not be a playing card.
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== [[Comics]] ==
* ''Sir Bagby'': When Sir Bagby comes to rescue the magician Snerk from a dungeon, Snerk shuffles a deck of cards and invites Sir Bagby to pick one. Sir Bagby picks a card, looks to see what it
* The non-serious 34th issue of [[Marvel Comics]]' ''[[What If|What if?]]'' series proposes an alternate reality where [[Doctor Strange]] and associates were this kind of magicians instead of arcane sorcerers. The Dread Dormammu's great master plan comes down to Strange having to pick a card, any card.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Bored of the Rings]]'':
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Benelux selected one of the fifty-two sevens of hearts and tore it into confetti. }}
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* ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' features an episode in which Howard demonstrates such a card trick that Sheldon spends the episode trying to figure out. {{spoiler|He's actually faking it to mess with Sheldon.}}
* ''[[The IT Crowd]]'':
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"No-- but damn close!" }}
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'': The Doctor tries and fails to do the trick at the Christmas party in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/2010
* One episode of ''[[The Addams Family]]'' had Pugsley try it. Turns out his deck is made up only of the same card.
* On ''[[Friends]]'' Joey attempted this trick, but he was laughably bad at it. He thought he was taking a glance at it so fast that no one could see. This, of course, didn't fool anyone, but they politely didn't say anything. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1_mZeBki1w Watch the scene.].
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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Frank and Ernest]]'', Frank had Ernest do this
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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