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Heroes & Villains by Craig Petty


Over 17 audience-tested, MIND-BLOWING tricks. INSTANTLY make all your card magic more interesting with legendary characters from literature and film. The special cards do most of the work!
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"I love using props I can build an interesting or fun story around, so when Craig showed me his Hero’s and Villains Deck I knew I wanted one! There are so many fun routines and presentations you can do with this amazing deck and I know you’ll have as much fun using it as I will!" - Peter Nardi

"Heroes and Villains is a great way to perform classic effects in card magic and make them much more appealing and relatable. It’s a brilliant idea I wish I had thought of it" - Chris Congreave

"Heroes and Villains is an awesome concept. The H&V deck turns card tricks into miracles and, more importantly, makes magic relatable. The fact that they look completely legitimate is just another reason to add them to your arsenal. You can reveal characters people are thinking of, perform incredible matching routines, and so much more. By applying the principles you already know with card magic, you’re taking your magic to a whole new level. Craig has created a beautiful concept that’s as practical as it is powerful." - Joel Dickinson

Imagine being able to make your favorite card tricks instantly relatable to every audience. Craig Petty has been hard at work in his mad science of magic laboratory, creating a very special deck of cards with all the qualities of a traditional deck but made up of characters from literature and cinema history. Now you can put story, meaning, and instant relatability into the card tricks that are already monsters. This is Heroes & Villains by Craig Petty.

The only thing missing from this deck is the kitchen sink. Not only is this a deck of fifty-two cards divided up into blue cards that represent the heroes and red cards that represent the villains, but they are also marked. The optical marking system from Phill Smith is built into every single card so that you can instantly know the identity of the character on the card, its corresponding nemesis, and a ton of other information. Each card features facts about the character with the Mother Of All Book Tests built right in. Craig and Phill have thought of everything when designing this deck of cards.

Imagine doing oil and water with a good and evil theme. Your ambitious card becomes instantly relevant when you perform it with the character from someone’s favorite childhood book. Your mind reading becomes a thing of true wonder when you are making direct predictions and revelations with age-old foes from classic fairytales.

Along with this beautiful deck comes an in-depth tutorial featuring seventeen audience-tested routines. These tricks span the magic library from oil and water and out of this world, to card at number, mind reading, and predictions. None of the routines require difficult sleight of hand, and many of the effects are practically self-working. This custom-printed deck looks like a collectible card game deck but handles like a dream. Infuse your card magic with the greatest stories of all time when you perform with The Heroes & Villains Deck by Craig Petty

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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on December 25th, 2024
Craig's effects are typically more than a one trick pony and this project is no different. The quality of the deck is outstanding and he teaches 14 tricks via video instruction. All of these tricks are workers, but I was especially drawn to:
- Shuffleboard
- Coin match
- Turner's OOTW
- Hero sandwich

So far I've only performed my favourite effect, Shuffleboard for people but get great reactions from them.

The fact that the deck is more a utility device rather than just a deck that can only be used for one performance is the key reason I'm thinking about making this part of my EDC.

The only downside, if you can call it that, is that so far most of my spectators keep interrupting the effect to read the character details on the cards - haha. It might require some more audience management to minimise this disruption and/or find ways to accommodate for their curiosity in other ways.

I personally don't play D&D or similar games but instead my patter focuses on storytelling, improvisation, creative writing, gift from a friend, or my children.

Craig is a top notch creator who continues to refine his magic development process and this instructional was possibly his easiest to watch as he stressed the importance of not learning all of the effects at once but doing so gradually. His instruction was also clear, concise and entertaining. Well done Craig on yet another stellar release!!
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on February 22nd, 2025
I absolutely love this product! I have never been disappointed in any purchase I have made from Penguin Magic. Everything you product is absolutely perfect.
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Really cool deck. Report this review
Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on February 4th, 2025
Learned about 3 different tricks. So cool. Loving the CP lately. I feel I get my moneys worth. The oil and water just kills.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on February 3rd, 2025
The cards are very cool. And the effects you can do are wonderful. However, my main gripe is that the markings on the back are difficult to read.

When somebody is selecting a card, the markings are sideways. You can even see Craig struggling to read the markings during the demo videos – he has to turn the card sideways and really study the back of the card.

And when somebody is holding the card looking at the name of the character, the markings are upside down. If the markings would have been right-side-up when the spectator is reading the name of the character/facts, then I would have given this 5 stars. I'm just finding it very difficult to casually peek at the markings while performing a trick.
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Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on December 9th, 2024
Much more interesting than the two of diamonds. Yes Craig, it is.
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