The Ultimate Magic Gift Guide: Secrets for the Season
Buying a gift for the magician or mentalist in your life is a massive pain - it's such a specific field so what can you get them other than something super specific they've directly asked for? Giving them a surprise, let alone an actual new secret they don't already know, feels impossible.
I want you to be able to gift a clever method and a fun trick that is interesting to both learn and perform that they will really value. I'm a magic designer who works developing magic ideas and methods for performers on international TV, on the biggest stages across the world, and for thousands of individual magicians carving out their own magic for friends, family and clients. I create pieces that have unique, often unusual methods that I build into the design of the piece - hopefully you can see the attention to detail from some of the tricks on this page!
I want people who get my magic to find in every piece something that they have never seen before. A clever method, a little procedural detail, a presentation idea, whatever it is, I want people to find this new thing and be inspired to use it in their own clever way.
If you get something from the site as a gift for a loved one, you aren't giving them just a fancy deck of cards - you are giving them the experience of learning that new secret, and the fun of performing it in the real world... probably for you! Anyway, this is what I think they will like:
Fusion Mosaic Phenomenon: Christmas Edition
- Price: £35.00
- WHO IT'S FOR: The performer who owns too many ugly Christmas sweaters and needs a truly *spectacular* holiday party piece.
- The Mystery: The magician introduces a deck of colorful, festive photo cards. A spectator freely picks one at random, and the performer deliberately fails to read their mind. Then, in a stunning twist, the cards the magician *did* remove, when placed together, align perfectly to form a giant mosaic of the spectator's original chosen image. It is entirely self-working, highly visual, and ready for Christmas performances right out of the box. Maybe an early gift so they can use this at that Christmas party you are organising?
Stegosaurus Pro
- Price: £40.00
- WHO IT'S FOR: The ambitious mind-reader who hasn't met a single casual family game they couldn't turn into an impossible mind-reading feat.
- The Mystery: This is a professional-grade, three-phase mind-reading routine disguised as a casual word game. Spectators choose a word and use cards with jumbled letters to build it—the process seems totally fair. The magician then impossibly divines the chosen word, even when the cards are face down, creating a genuinely stunning moment of thought transference.
EDC Dice V3: International Edition
- Price: £40.00
- WHO IT'S FOR: The magician who is always being asked "Do you have anything on you?"—now, they can pull out a fully-contained, international miracle from their pocket.
- The Mystery: The professional hands out two ordinary-looking dice (marked with everyday items like keys, phone, etc.) to be rolled or arranged by the audience. A sealed prediction is given out before they even start. The spectator eliminates the items until only one remains, and the prediction is opened to prove the magician knew the outcome from the beginning. It's clean, modern, and works worldwide since the props are visually understood.
Elysian Scripts: A Marked Alphabet Deck
- Price: £25.00
- WHO IT'S FOR: The sophisticated wordsmith who can't stand performing with "just regular playing cards" and prefers to read minds using the English alphabet.
- The Mystery: This beautifully designed deck contains 52 individual letter cards, built with a subtle, yet ingenious marking system. A volunteer might select a handful of letters to form a word or simply think of a phrase. The performer can then "read their mind" and know exactly what letters they are holding, offering a fresh, sophisticated alternative to standard playing card magic.
The Hermetic Compendium
- Price: £15.00
- WHO IT'S FOR: The philosopher-magician who needs a beautiful, hardback tome that looks like it belongs next to an ancient alchemist's lab for all their secret notes.
- The Mystery: This is an A5 hardback sketchbook styled as an ancient tome, not a trick. Its pages are overlaid with faint sigils and diagrams to inspire the performer. It is the perfect, beautiful companion for scripting new routines and turning magic concepts into stage-ready miracles—a fantastic gift for the creative mentalist.
Jung Star
- Price: £25.00
- WHO IT'S FOR: The performer whose favorite question is "What's your sign?"—now they can reveal the answer with zero guesswork, just "psychology."
- The Mystery: Performers use a personality test card inspired by Carl Jung, asking the participant to make a few simple, self-reflective choices. Without asking a single question, the performer then reveals the spectator’s exact star sign with quiet confidence. It is an incredibly personal and conversational piece of mind-reading that feels like an intimate insight into the participant's nature.
Legacy of Misfits Collection
- Price: £25.00
- WHO IT'S FOR: The quirky collector who knows that a deck with a "minor issue" is just a rare piece of design history and has great character.
- The Mystery: This is a collector's bundle of four unique decks from the creator's past projects.They offer fascinating insights and unique artwork - it's an excellent gift for the enthusiast who wants a treasure chest of unique decks to experiment with and learn from.
Elysian Duets
- Price: £17.50
- WHO IT'S FOR: The serious card magician who believes that the best deception is also the most elegant and subtle.
- The Mystery: The standard version of the famous Elysian deck. It's an elegant, high-quality deck of playing cards with a **highly deceptive optical marking system** that allows the performer to read the card from the back, even from a distance. This gives the magician X-ray vision and is a staple tool for any serious card worker.
Fusion Mosaic Phenomenon
- Price: £35.00
- WHO IT'S FOR: The close-up artist who wants a visual jaw-dropper that packs small but plays like an impossible stage illusion.
- The Mystery: This is the standard edition of the amazing, self-working mosaic card reveal trick. It is a stunning visual piece of mentalism that allows the performer to impossibly reveal a spectator's chosen image after they have made several choices.
The Ebooks (Quinta, Mitox, Yokai, Mokele)
- Price: £20.00 each
- WHO IT'S FOR: The curious knowledge-seeker who likes to learn new secrets and high-level concepts from the comfort of their favorite reading device.
- The Mystery: These are downloadable ebooks containing detailed instructions, methods, and presentations for complete magic and mentalism routines. They are a gift of pure knowledge, allowing the recipient to learn a new, professional-level trick or principle and perform it immediately.
Atelier Arcana
- Price: **£800.00** (Bespoke Commission)
- WHO IT'S FOR: The ultimate patron of the magical arts—for the professional who is tired of buying secrets and demands a one-of-a-kind bespoke signature miracle.
- The Mystery: This is a **bespoke commission** for the creator to build a brand new, one-of-a-kind magic effect specifically around the performer's personality and style. It guarantees a secret nobody else owns, built with world-class thinking and elegant props. This is the ultimate gift of authorship and an entire act of original magic designed just for them.