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What is a cooler in magic?

Updated: 9/19/2023
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A cooler is a card deck brought into play, normally at the end of a slight of hand routine. The term is implying that you are swapping out a 'hot' deck (where the order of cards has been lost due to the act) with a pre-arranged (cooler) deck for your finale.

If you get a chance to watch the show Penn & Teller: Fool Us, Michael Vincent 'rang in a cooler,' when he spread the deck. Usually a deck is swapped out via palming a deck of cards, pocketing them while the other hand already has the cooler in place and sweeps down to fan the cards out. This sweeping motion of the cards provides the perfect distraction for the pocketing of the 'hot deck.'

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