Knife Through Card: Street Magic | David Blaine

[@lukasritzer738]

Woman: “Wait how did you do that??” David Blaine: yes let me explain

[@qirat.652]

Lukas Ritzer lmaooo

[@trulsrakvag]

I cringe everytime they say that 😩

[@Scythe69]

We'll do a simple one now...

[@FEGuitar]

Wait watch watch wait watch hey wait watch here look here wait watch

[@disco.lemonade]

lol

[@jkbjkb1178]

I lay awake at night terrified that this man is wandering around with a power level the same as Dr strange

[@CryptoDrew]

Underrated comment

[@SeriousDryWall]

This is an avengers level threat

[@Adam_Bosscoe]

Or even worse, a power level the same as Shaggy

[@gunnerapple808]

I can do all he can do. Pay close attention and you can see

[@parhelio___]

Image him practicing the table flip for hours on end, underwater.

[@BrunoRodrigues-fw9ri]

hhahahha

[@MahdiTheMagician]

2:17 David slices through his finger. You can see the blood dripping down. He writes about this in his book Mysterious Stranger. I believe he might have slight but permanent damage from it.

[@abdullah4835]

Yeah he cut a nerve

I don't see any blood there.

[@lisamarieschnee]

@ 2:32 when he lifts up the knife you can see blood on his pinky

[@scottj4641]

Of course he did. Demon magic doesn't work without blood.

[@dk57nde23]

store owner must be pissed that he just stabbed and ripped through a random menu

[@immanuelkant7895]

Lol more likely he‘d be pissed that he stabbed a tablecloth and table, not a piece of paper.

[@ktk4369]

Better than having David make Annabelle visit u later that night

[@BradPwnsU]

I'm sure they were compensated for it and even compensated for him filming there

[@styxrakash4639]

Those items increased in value, they just got blained!

[@MuchKoku]

Screw the menu. The table is fucked.

[@Ash-ft5su]

The best part was holding his blood in after he sliced his finger.

[@raycolon4979]

Most great magicians work in teams... No magician is great by themselves. Props.

[@mcfcguvnors]

8 under the menu probably the oldest trick in the book

[@ryan_spear]

@@mcfcguvnors sorry but I don’t see a card under the menu when he first gets it handed to him

[@numinumful3815]

@@ryan_spear off course you dont see, hes extremely skilled with cards and hes doing his thing without you noticing it

[@KITE_17]

so how did he make him choose the 8 in the first place?

[@menglongzzz]

@@KITE_17 my guess is 0:51 when he touch the cards, he swap the whole deck into 8s. It’s the only time he touched them.

[@miniruck]

When he stabbed that card though. "Hiya, hiya!" 😂

[@MyErick1994]

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[@AntiRiku]

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[@jake6984]

You owe him a table

[@visboer6358]

+bubby bumble and a new card

[@maciektrybuszewski9964]

And blanket.

[@RS2OO6REMAKE]

Wrong, the hole in the table was also part of the trick on the owner.

[@sicrick234]

I’m sure that restaurant sold that table and made a lot of money off it

[@SweatWithZ]

look closer ... the table has no hole

[@carlossiguenza331]

I wasnt ready for this level of aggression

[@pedestrian_0]

Just another innovative idea david blaine has in presenting that trick lmao

[@SGtoot]

His pinkie is bleeding after the second stab

[@platinumpineapple9943]

xtoot Yes it ruined his pinky forever he still has a crooked pinky because of this one

[@Pingaheimer]

@@platinumpineapple9943 ouch.

[@BruceLlE]

Great observation, I had to watch it again after reading this comment

[@bigkingspeakerdwestemperor5068]

Part of the trick, you have to make a blood pact with the devil for this one.

[@AustinChubak]

@Nikos Kalantas there's a video where he says it caused permanent damage. I can't remember where but I remember watching it

[@papabear9481]

Making eye contact with a "random customer", who is in a position to view the card, then signals the card number to David. Notice how he specifically gestured to the area that he would be facing? He did it not once, but twice and made it appear he was gesturing randomly, which was actually the power of suggestion. Dude is awesome, been able to figure a few of his tricks out, but most not so much. Guess that's why he is a master at his craft. Ps, the menu passed to him had the replacement card, noticed how he clasped it in a very certain position?

[@corneliusthecrowtamer1937]

it's funny that you wrote this whole thing while being so obviously wrong about every point

[@silenceisbliss816]

spoiler : once the man chose the card, he showed it to everyone. there is a second deck in which the same person who gave the menu also picked out the mans card. the shuffling and all that was just time to stall for the card being placed in the menu. you’re welcome

[@gabrieljorgegomes675]

omg, sherlock holmes lives in youtube comments rn?

[@DubsOwnly]

But he turned the menu over, so you could see there was no card on either side 🧐

[@BenjaminWeeb]

@@DubsOwnly sleight of hand

[@DubsOwnly]

Benjamin Collins no, I think the TS was onto something, however the menu looks to be one piece of paper folded in half. So if you put 2 menus together and the card in between them that would make the most sense. Look how he reveals the card, he doesn’t lift it straight up, he pulls the menus towards himself to cut through the menus. If he was to lift it up, the card would still be trapped between the menus. Everyone there watching would also have been very familiar with the single paper menu folded in half.

[@jacemcpherson]

@@DubsOwnly The menu has a flap on the inside where the card was stored. it's partially attached to the menu so it stays attached to the menu when he pulls it away.

[@villeviivaviiva]

in this trick he damaged his pinkie losing some nerves

[@saeeddeanable]

That is the blood he sacrificed for the trick probably

[@oops.4970]

Nice catch lol. He was definitely bleeding

[@alexhetherington8028]

Yeah I was about to say this.

[@alexhetherington8028]

@@oops.4970 yeah he has told the story aswel

[@Badasseditz-s4c]

When David Blaine says shuffle so you try to impress 0:36

[@zacjohnson8404]

the most impressive bit was how he kept his cool after gashing his finger open on the knife

[@michealpeterson4634]

underrated comment, his pinky is gashed up

[@Moonlight-cd9qq]

He making me believe things that I never thought I'd believe in

[@TeranIcer]

Wise guys like magic tricks too...

[@oscarsaucedo1310]

I need magic cards to perform infront of people amazing & wow 😮

[@sjsiemka]

I love how he just threw the box and the packaging and the cards what not, into those old ladies plate.

[@Bink1221]

My guess is he had someone in the crowd see the card, then put a different 8 of diamonds in the menu then hand it to him.

[@justinlam411]

i think you’re right. if you look closely at the menu when he pulls it out, you see a white shape the size of a card

[@opaldeadventureersubscribe7825]

@Alfredo Barragan 502 the top page of the menu is 2 pages glued on the one side but on top where he pulled the knife out had the opening.

[@user-uo2ph3ul3d]

Agree, he could take the menu, that was on the table without asking :) I think each time David Blain asks for something it's a part of plan, like with Jeff Bezos and calculator

[@yossifeldman1742]

If you look there was no card under the menu where he stabbed it

[@opaldeadventureersubscribe7825]

@@yossifeldman1742 it was in the menu, not under it.

[@fireballdude7368]

1:04 me and the bois looking at “Her”

[@mikecod6806]

When I get bored I watched Blaine

[@VerSagun]

2:10 how he held the menu, is where he stabbed and where the card is hidden haha

[@VerSagun]

I needadigitalpenciltowritemyrealname most likely he had an accomplice because he let the others show what the card is.

[@jdmurfreesboro2738]

I noticed that

[@VerSagun]

High Gamer must be hidden inside the menu, not 100% sure how but there should be a trick behind this haha thats what make magic fun :)

[@cruz1ale]

@@highgamer4957 no they're not, they're in the same positions before and after stabbing

[@troll-fx2zc]

That's awesome. I dont even want to know how he did it. Imagination and the unknown keep my mind young.

[@FuhqEwe]

I'd also like to keep your mind sharp. Really amazing magic tricks are fantastic, but camera tricks, aren't. Unfortunately, that's all this is - a camera trick, there's no magic. To make matters worse, so many of the "people" for these street tricks were entirely in on it.

[@andylee4245]

Fuhq Ewe Is this really true? I thought maybe it’s all camera trick and staged like you said, but is there any proof?

[@FuhqEwe]

@@andylee4245 Absolutely, this is factually established and well known. Criss Angel did the same thing. It's why I like Penn and Teller so much - Penn has made it clear that he does not consider camera tricks and plants as ''magic'', because it isn't.

[@FuhqEwe]

​@@andylee4245 I'm keeping this reply separated for links you'll undoubtedly want regarding the topic; Discussing his camera tricks - especially focused around his Balducci levitation. home.iitk.ac.in/~vinit/folder/David Blaine Magic Revealed/David Blaine Magic Revealed.pdf Penn discussing how camera tricks are not magic; kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6ScpKB4hZVnhsU The trick for this particular video is the man's head - you'll notice that for literally no reason, the camera pans behind a man's head that covers the entire screen. This is the camera trick for this particular routine. 2:11 For Criss Angel, this one has to be the funniest; kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKXOnpaPgsimg5Y Same video with hilarious commentary by Count Dankula; kzbin.info/www/bejne/opW1gYKiaK18mbM Edited for bald head timestamp.

[@andylee4245]

@@FuhqEwe Thanks for the thorough comment. That Criss Angel video was ridiculous lol

[@noura.mohamed]

The card trick that fucked up his pinki for ever ...still my fav hands tho

[@djroyel]

@Nikos Kalantas when he stabs the table, his hand slips and he cuts his pinky

[@nextinline7469]

he looks like he's disappointed with himself when the trick works

[@Locito845]

He's just waiting for the day that his magic runs out and is finally absolved of the responsibility

[@lucaflipz]

It’s because he stabbed his finger

[@heberthybr]

The best card trick of his career.

[@Alex_1729]

I dunno, he has a lot of tricks like these

[@bobubob5025]

You must be joking

[@YourPalHDee]

It's actually super straight forward, the cameraman sees the card, tells the guy who brings the menu, the menu contains the card, he stabs through the menu where he's placed the card, easy.

[@YourPalHDee]

@Yusuf Islam it's inside the menu...

[@YourPalHDee]

@Yusuf Islam I mean... It's inside the menu. What do you mean "wrong again"? Why do you think he tears the knife through the menu? Why would he even involve the menu in the trick? No offense, but are you stupid?

[@blackagarboltagon7046]

Manager: woow! I mean sir I going ask you to leave

[@christnhvv256]

i remember watching this back in the day! everyone here grew up with television! and the great depression

[@matthewprestia7647]

Junior Soprano's long lost brother in the background

[@fkncompton7124]

I like these magic tricks but I can't help but think how easy most tricks can fall apart if someone asks to examine things, like the menu, for example

[@k.i.d8442]

What would happen

[@sylviaplath8263]

It’s definitely in the menu. Otherwise why wouldn’t he just stab without it. But he makes a whole thing of talking about the cards being face down, shuffled and covered from him and then adds the menu on top of that. The trick is more in the story than anything else. I think one can basically deduce what he is doing from the opposite of what he is saying.

[@Angry_hamster]

Я понял как он это сделал, даже грустно от этого стало.. карту показали официантке, а она была в сговоре с ним, и когда она узнала карту, взяла заранее подготовленное меню с этой картой внутри меню (между двумя слоями бумаги) потом он проткнул ножом это меню, вытащил меню, а карта осталась в ноже, так как плотность гораздо выше чем у бумаги этого меню.....

[@alriashi7]

я тоже также понял

[@HardRockMiner]

He cut himself pretty badly with that steak knife on the second stab. His hand slipped down the handle and he almost cut his pinky off. Anybody else catch it..?

[@jhunrumohr1444]

Lol u gonna pay for the table and the menu for sure 😂😂😂

[@shariqsonindahouse9663]

Haha i hate the sound effect he created when he knifed the table aha

[@artmanstudios7037]

batman shows up! "that's child play, want to see me disappear?"

[@mohammedasif1955]

You just need to target that face on the menu where the card is hidden. 😁

[@moedahobo9763]

1:27 Dude in the back was like “heheh yeaaaaaah buddy i saw it”

[@themanwhoknewtoomuch6667]

Absolute GOAT.

[@EdisEdward]

This one is easy. Someone in the audience saw which card it was, got a another 8 of hearts, put it in the menu, handed it to David. U can clearly see that he is hiding the card under the menu as he places it on the table

[@ericportillo8277]

Takes menu and knife off..was that the sandwich you ate earlier?

[@ss8512]

The trick is all in the menu, the menu is doubled holding the 8 inside thats why he rips the menu when he puts the knife threw. He got the 8 from his apprentice who saw the 8 and put it after he saw what card the guy picked. If he were just to stab and lift the knife with the menu all you would see on the back is the menu. Thats why he ripped it from the menu.

[@t.n.9508]

Very thoughtful solution. But how did he stab it so that no other cards get stabbed along with the 8 diamond? 🤔

[@ss8512]

@@t.n.9508 2:10 you see the open gap, he places the menu on top of it lined up with the front of the menu logo which has the 8. He missed the first time thats why he stabbed twice. The front menu logo is his guide

[@ss8512]

@@t.n.9508 BTW I know 95% of all magic tricks done.

[@garla5851]

Holy Cow !!!!🐄 He ruined a menu , Deck of cards, table, and possibly a steak knife, in one Fell Swoop!! AMAZING!! 😳

[@Jollyboy111]

And his little finger - he cut it with the second stab.

[@YoutubeCensorsYou]

That was a lot of destruction for one card trick.

[@JasonVoorhees10100]

One does not simply watch 1 david blaine video

[@combatgames410]

The card was on the back of the menu in the beggining lol

[@YourPalHDee]

Yeah you see it fall out as he places it

[@passerby4278]

but how would he know what card they chose?

[@YourPalHDee]

@@passerby4278 the cameraman sees the card, he tells the "waiter" who brings the menu. Fairly simple.

[@subhajitsaha3405]

if u slowed the video then u will see no card was hidden in the menu

[@o0art]

the card was inside the menu and I think the menu has a thin layer of a paper designed to be as a pocket where the card was put inside and when he stabbed the menu at 2:20 he pulled the menu back in order to get the card out of it . -stop the video at 2:10 , there you can see a strange blank rectangle on the middle of the menu where the knife hits

[@publicaccount1589]

Why did he say 'make sure everyone around you can see the card'? So that his plant in the audience knows what the card is. Then that same card is attached to the menu that's brought to blaine, and well you can figure the rest. People who think this guy has other worldly powers cracks me up...

[@philofthesouth6019]

‘Here’s the table bill sir’ ‘But I didn’t pay for anythi....’ ‘You put a knife in it’

[@MH-iy6oe]

The real magic was how the Random stranger smoothly opened the new card plastic tab in one go.

[@Nezekeh]

He cut his finger in order to perform the incantation, obviously.

[@BATMAN-jb3cy]

Seems like you're coming from The Order 😂

[@Entertainmentqi]

Imagine if someone told him that we dont need the menu, just find it now

[@TheNeilsolaris]

Or if one of the people sitting around the table passed him a normal menu without the duplicate card before his stooge had had a chance to pass him the prepared one!

[@bryanfidelman3846]

Took me a second but gotta admit that was pretty nice, or should I say KNIFE 😎

[@gregoriofrancisco8640]

David just ruined the table haha

[@JavierArveloCruzSantana]

I don't care for some of his stunts, but do think he is a brilliant magician. I mean really high up there for our times.

[@ysrilrmy_9721]

Very cool david. Now you have to compensate the table.

[@vacbanned6489]

WTFFFFFF MANNN????!!!!!!

[@madebymollo1780]

You can see the card hidden inside the menu at 2:09

[@11219tt]

I prefer slight of hand skills more than this. But the showmanship is good. Plants and helpers isn’t my thing.

[@Bennymarz]

The card is inside the menu, under a thin piece of paper , that’s why when he stabs it he slides the menu from the knife , so the card (hidden inside the menu) would stay on the knife

[@thedude573]

How would he have know the correct card the old man choose to put in the menu?

[@Bennymarz]

Notice how when he asks for a menu he looks in the direction of the girl who hands him the menu, obviously she was in on it and slipped the card in the menu once the old man picked it

[@thedude573]

@@Bennymarz Ah I see

[@teabags2day]

Criss Angel possessed him in the last part of the trick lmao

[@quinngatiuan4390]

Amazing

[@yuli426]

It is a variation of Chris angles paperbag trick. Well done 👍

[@davidarni1000]

the card was inside the menu

[@totorosan8856]

All of em cards were in the menu too

[@jacobgarza5921]

@@triple466 bro u were 3 years late but u still killed it😂

[@kirktoufor5991]

@@triple466 lol.... where'd that come from?

[@BizzBizz69]

@@triple466 You had to come for dude 3 years later damn

[@SkilledBird]

Somebody obviously saw the card and put it in the menu. Solved :)

[@KTMFWaRFaRe]

If u noticed he cut is pinky at the end of the trick and it looked pretty bad to me

[@ParmiJohn]

NatePlays I saw that too lol it doesn't look that bad tho

[@platinumpineapple9943]

NatePlays Yes he said in an interview it actually ruined his pinky forever. its forever crooked

[@Pingaheimer]

@@platinumpineapple9943 interview link?

[@Iburn247]

No tables were harmed in the filming of this video

[@lucky1u]

Finally, magic for older people!

[@Vizhnu7]

When that guy showed his card to everybody, assistant of blaine saw the card and placed it in the menu

[@tomdavid4180]

Look carefully at 2:09..you can see something is sticked under the menu card :) looks like someone stuck that under the menu and gave it to Blaine.

[@ПетяКантроп-в4в]

very simple trick

[@pheroqt1238]

Am I the only one who saw transparent card / nylon at 1:39 while the guy shuffling cards? :o

[@miguelbarron7]

Yes only one

[@AliBaba-uy9br]

I see it too

[@amitjain4249]

Watch in slow motion its not transparent it just appears to be like one bcoz of ambient lighting

[@BunsenMusic]

@@amitjain4249 Correct. It's a normal card, catching glare from the light.

[@lizardinthelites]

"aghhh, eughhh"

[@ejmtv3]

Restaurant Manager: Nice trick. But I want you to get out, sir please. Thank you.

[@samdilworth1989]

Everybody but the manager looks amused. After the footage was cut the manager pulled David Blaine aside and said you owe me a menu, tablecloth and a table.

[@adilosman5425]

At the end of every david blaine video "How did you do that" I tell you what dont bother asking 😁

[@jamesduquesne5579]

amazing ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[@saeeddeanable]

I mean he ruined the table , the menu and dinner in 2 minutes......... kool trick

[@KoshiJack]

And his pinky

[@petersiegfriedkrug]

he is so amazing

[@balobalo7570]

You can see the white card size patch on the menu held 8n place by his finger. I think that’s the card.

[@tylerparker3024]

It was definitely inside the menu. Someone put it there after he showed it. If they had looked at the cards on the table after the trick they wouldve found another one. Great delivery though

[@JK-br1mu]

He had mirrors in the room, that's why he had the guy go in a circle with the card. And he has small marks on the backs of the cards that only he recognizes, which tell him which cards are which.........he saw the markings on the back of the card that was the 8 of diamonds before he put the menu over it, and then stabbed it........he had seen the 8 of diamonds earlier in the hidden mirror in the room.

[@Tsunami1898]

"Now dats a lot of damage"

[@4stringz.]

Magic is great because it turn the spectators into innocent kids again for a little while

[@DingDimlewitz]

1:58 "Can we have the menu". There are lots of paper and menus on the table already. Old lady even starts reaching for them. No, needs to be a specific menu. That's been off screen and behind everybody's backs. Nothing suspicious about that.

[@relentlessrescue260]

2:15 his sound effects though hahahaha

[@rivikulafernando6624]

The card was inside the menu 🥵

[@Wil_Dasovich]

🤯🤯🤯

[@ruslan-qh5zo]

Whut

[@Amtcboy]

The magician was actually the waiter. Waiter prepared a table prop too.

[@nahianuddin4215]

Who paid for the menu and the table and table cloths??

[@dexretrogamerzoid630]

The trick is in the menu

[@theacneclearchef2952]

wow. !!!!

[@KingDami1999]

Classic

[@kiatermister9574]

Can i have a menu please. Of course its a setup guys =) But nice that you all have fun

[@amazingworldchannel99]

The waiter did his job well

[@luc1d356]

He cut his pinky when he stabbed the table the second time. Ouch

[@horuslupercal9936]

"He was so nice for a Brown fellow!"