I think that all magicians enjoy working with gaffed cards. Just imagine the possibilities. Mickael Chatelain's Hole 2.0 offers a gaffed set of cards to perform a penetration style effect. Meanwhile, Eric Ross' Weapons Deck is a collection of gaffed cards that work with your Bicycle cards.

Hole 2.0
New gimmicks for card tricks are constantly coming to the market but Michael Chatelain has been creating and selling amazing these for a long time.


Whenever I see his name, I know that I’m in store for something intriguing and innovative. HOLE 2.0 offers a penetrationeffect where a playing card passes through another card to fall through the table. The cards are cleverly and well-gimmicked and the effect looks great.

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Passing Through
You bring out two playing cards that have holes in their backs. These are ordinary cards that may be examined by spectators. You sandwich another playing card between these two cards - this third card is slid between the other two cards that have holes. Impossibly, the normal card in the middle passes through the lower card and lands on the table.

The magic occurs thanks to the gimmicked card, which is a precision work of art. In addition to the effect itself, Chatelain has designed the routine so it appears that you’re simply taking a card from the deck and allowing spectators to examine all of the cards afterwards.

Handling is not overly difficult and there are no difficult sleights. However, this one will take practice. An accompanying DVD adequately teaches you everything that you need to know (in the English and French languages).

The Details
Angles are best if spectators are viewing the action from nearlhy directly above. If you’re performing at normal angles on a table (and you will need a table to allow the penetrated card to drop), you can angle the cards a bit for cover. However, you won’t want to do this too much as it would draw attention to the crucial moment.

The routine has built in misdirection to cover this. Reset takes less than 30-seconds but will need to be done out of sight of spectators.

By the way, Chatelain released an earlier version of Hole (which is why this one is designated “2.0”). But despite some brilliant gimmicking, it was a clearly an inferior illusion. Version 1.0 was a penetration of a sticker whereas version 2.0 offers a penetration of a playing card.

More Ways to Pass Through a Card
I like Hole 2.0 and feel that spectators will be surprised and baffled by it. On the other hand, there are many well known and easy ways to gimmick playing cards to create baffling visual effects that connect with spectators.

For example, there’s classic Card Warp that makes it appear that one card is turning over within another card that offers multiple phases. I also like Geoff Williams’ “I Hate Copperfield” penetration effect where a card passes through another card in multiple phases. There’s more than one way to penetrate a card.

Mickael Chatelain’s effect has lots to offer. If you like the visual effect that Hole 2.0 offers, definitely check it out.