Customer rating:
Ambitious Card Omnibus - magic
Here's a welcome surprise! The Ambitious Card Omnibus by Stephen Minch was a slim but dense volume dedicated to all the best phases of the Ambitious Card plot. There are standard handlings as well unusual phases that have been largely forgotten since its 1987 publication. The book is written by magic's foremost author, Stephen Minch, so you can expect high-quality and detailed instruction. And Daryl is at the center of the book, thanks to his FISM-winning handling of the Ambitious Card routine.
What's interesting about this new edition is that it includes a new chapter on Daryl's "Ultimate Ambition," which is fantastic ending for the piece, in which the deck is wrapped in rope to "sleight-of-hand proof the pack," yet the card still manages to rise to the top. This phase itself is thirty years old, yet hasn't been described in great detail in print...until now.
The Ambitious Card is one of the most magical and compelling in all of card magic. It has progressed since 1987, when this book was published, but this book provides an essential foundation of knowledge on which to build your own Ambitious routine. Highest recommendation for serious students and beginners alike.
Contents of Ambitious Card Omnibus
Introduction by Michael Weber
About the Limits of This Volume's Ambitious
Section One: The Routine
Introductory Phase
Exemplary Phase
The Double Turnover
The Double Lift Build-Up
The Top Change
For the Unambitious
The Bluff Pass
Up the Falls
The Pass
The Paintbrush Color Change
The Pop-Up Card
Section Two: Alternative Sequences
Four Opening Gambits
The Center Double Lift
The Hofzinser Spread Pass
Signed with Suspicious
To Boldly Go
Chapter Two: Further Ascentions
The Push-In Change
Tabled Ambitious
The Outjog Change
The Ambitious Miracle Change
Layers of Conviction
The Tip-Over Change
Two Bluff Insertions
The Tiltless Tilt
The Daley Leaper
The Impromptu Duplicate
Four Fifths of the Truth
The Whole Truth
The Kagemusha Principle
Ambitious Movie
The Finger-Clip Colour Change
Rise, Rise, Rise
The Triple Whammo
The Screened Leipzig Pass
The Ultra Move
The One-Handed Side Steal
A One-Handed Sequence
The Transfer of a Card
The One-Card Double Lift
The Ambitious Double Deal
The Ambitious Twins
Double Quick
Section Three: Four Finales
Four Finales
One for the Money
Under Foot
Ambitious One-Way
The Ultimate Ambitious
Chapter Four
Ultimate Ambitious Improved
An Index To The Ambitious Card In Print