Editing Card manipulation (section)

==History==
[[File:Welles-Sandburg-1942.jpg|thumb|[[Orson Welles]] performs a card trick for [[Carl Sandburg]] (August 1942)]]
Playing cards became popular with magicians in the 15th century<ref>Puzzlers' Tribute: A Feast for the Mind, A. K. Peters, 2001</ref> as they were props which were inexpensive, versatile, and easily accessible, plus sleight of hand with cards was already developed by card cheats<ref>{{Cite web |title=Card Tricks - History Of The Origins of Playing Cards & Magic |url=https://www.card-trick.com/history/ |access-date=2025-05-19 |website=Card-Trick.com |language=en-US}}</ref>. Card magic has bloomed into one of the most popular branches of magic, accumulating thousands of techniques and ideas. These range from complex mathematics like those used by [[Persi Diaconis]], the use of psychological techniques like those taught by [[Banachek]], to extremely difficult sleight of hand like that of [[Ed Marlo]] and [[Dai Vernon]].

Card magic, in one form or another, likely dates from the time playing cards became commonly known, towards the second half of the fourteenth century, but its history in this period is largely undocumented. Compared to [[sleight of hand]] magic in general and to [[cups and balls]], it is a new form of magic.{{sfn|Randi|1992|pp=17-27}} However, due to its versatility as a prop it has become popular amongst modern magicians.

[[Martin Gardner]] called [[S. W. Erdnase|S.W. Erdnase's]] 1902 [[The Expert at the Card Table|treatise]] on card manipulation ''Artifice, Ruse and Subterfuge at the Card Table: A Treatise on the Science and Art of Manipulating Cards''{{sfn|Erdnase|1902}} "the most famous, the most carefully studied book ever published on the art of manipulating cards at gaming tables".{{sfn|Erdnase|1995|loc=Foreword}} This book influenced Dai Vernon to become a magician, who is considered to be the pioneer of modern day card magic.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Dai Vernon - Magicpedia |url=https://www.geniimagazine.com/magicpedia/Dai_Vernon |access-date=2025-05-18 |website=www.geniimagazine.com}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Dai Vernon {{!}} Canadian Magician, Card Trick Expert {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dai-Vernon |access-date=2025-05-18 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>