Now as I'm sure many of you know, Theory11 hasn't gotten the "best" publicity lately.

Remember the Monarchs fiasco? How about threatening Evan to let him never make another purchase from them?

Well this Wednesday they finally raised the bar on how terrible a company can be.


As many of you know, Theory11 has a relatively new service called "The Wire". On said service, you can submit original tricks, become known in the magic world, and make profits by selling your tricks.

Meet 19 year-old Alex Offenkrantz; a card magician with a dream of making it big. He realized this was his chance to become big.

His original trick "Sourdough Switch" was on "The Wire" for a couple of weeks and has done relatively well. He finally was getting his work to the known world; until Exposé had to mess it all up.

This week Zach Mueller and Christen Gerhart went out of their way to completely insult every little thing about him.

His looks, his voice, the name of the trick, and his name were all poked fun at during this episode.

Watch the video here (Insulting starts around 20 seconds): http://tinyurl.com/72ob5dz


I couldn't believe this. After I saw this I felt so bad for Mr. Offenkrantz, I decided to purchase this trick, but when I got to "The Wire" shop, his trick was gone. My jaw dropped.

I decided to search for him on Theory11, and this is what I found: http://tinyurl.com/6pkv5j6

Under his picture it says "Alex has yet to release any tricks on The Wire."

They seriously insulted Alex so much, to the point where he decided to remove his content.

Why any company would flat-out insult someone who makes them money is beyond me.


I forgave them for the Monarchs, stuck with them after they threatened Evan, but this is un-excusable, and I have lost all respect I have for this stone-cold company.



They have ruined a hopeful magician which deserves absolutely no praise.

I was watching a YouTube video by a channel called "MyMagicStuff". He works for Ellusionist and was talking about how he got his job, but that's not the point. The point of this topic is he said sometime in his video "This is when Jonathan Bayme still worked here". I looked it up, and it is true, he did work for Ellusionist before resigning from his high authority, and founding Theory11. I was looking this up online and can not find any reason why he split. Does anyone know why?

I thought this would be interesting and a good way to get to know eachother.

I know people of many ethnicities from all around the world are on here, and I was wondering what holiday you celebrate?

Christmas? Hanukkah? Kwanzaa? Other?

I, as I assume most of the people on here, celebrate Christmas.


NOTE: This is not meant for people to force their religion or bash other cultures. This is purely for my curiosity.

http://tinyurl.com/78p8v4d

Now I'm not gonna lie, I think these look pretty cool. I wouldn't buy it, but I think this would be a fun craft to make with my old decks.

I was just at a flea-market-esque place and I bought Two Streamline's, and Two Aristocrat casino decks for about $7. All of the decks were from the USPCC Ohio factory. First off, did I pay too much, but my real question is "What is Casino finish, and why is it so crappy?" Is there even any finish on it? Thank you.

I am not trying to spam with all these favorite topics, and if you'd like me to stop and remove these I gladly wii. I just find this interesting.

What are you favorite jokers. Mine without a doubt are the White Lions decks. They are just pure epicness.

I'm guessing this belongs in "The Talk Park" but feel free to move it as needed.

Alright so here's the story, when I received my brick of Red Artifice playing cards, I noticed three of the decks were damaged, I sent them an email, an what they said was quite surprising. I needed to send them pictures of the boxes cut in half, along with all the King and Queen's of hearts to be cut up in the same picture, so I did. It felt like smashing a brand new iPad, because although I didn't feel good cutting them up, it also felt awesome to destroy something so valuable. I've received my new decks, but I'm wondering what I should do with the three decks of Red Artifice (No, I won't send them to you). I was thinking of spreading them out all scattered and framing them. What do you guys think?

Does anyone else ever stop doing a magic trick for so long they forget how it's done, and you CAN'T remember what it's called. I got like 20 Sankey DVDs from his BABOM and there was a trick where you fold a card in half, rip it in too, and I forget if that's the finale of the trick or the beginning.Does this happen to anyone else?

I didn't pledge for any Vortex decks, because I was saving up money. I gave my mom my Christmas list and the next day I get an email from Kickstarter saying I'm a backer for the Vortex decks. I guess she forgot that when I got the Revision 1 deck, I linked the Kickstarter to my email. 

Here are some ideas for what you can do with it:
-When you're destroying your friend on COD or Gears or whatever, turn on Pure Smoke and make it seem like everything is fine, while they sit, awestruck.

-Using red smoke, do a color change from blue to red.

-Use it to age cards by performing a color change from a bike to an 1800's series. (Someone posted this on here already)

What are your Ideas?

Sorry I haven't posted in so long. I know it may seem like I got to 200 posts, then stopped coming here but that isn't true at all. Recently, my teachers have decided to go crazy with assessments. I literally have a test/ quiz every other day, and hours of homework on-top of that. When I can, I like to read the boards, but I usually can only read for a few minutes, until I need to go. I will try my hardest to keep contributing to this site as much as possible, but school comes first.

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