Magic supplies in Oakland, Alameda County, California

Trick decks do the heavy lifting while you learn: a Svengali deck forces a card without a single sleight, a marked deck tells you what they took, and a stripper deck lets you find it blind. Gaff cards, double backers and card gimmicks cover the rest. Most working repertoires are still mostly cards, and most of them start here.

The quietest magic and often the strongest. Forcing dice, mental dice boxes, prediction props, nail writers and marked material let you know a thought, a number or a word without ever touching a deck. It plays to adults, it plays in corporate rooms, and it leaves no prop to blame.

Nobody needs an expensive prop to start. The strongest beginner material in the shop costs less than lunch — self-working decks, sponge balls and forcing dice — and all of it still gets used by people who have been performing for twenty years.

The west coast magic scene leans close-up and comedy, and Los Angeles has the Magic Castle pulling performers through it. Expect strong local competition and a correspondingly good standard of amateur work.

Orders ship within two business days and arrive in Oakland in roughly 8 to 16 business days. That covers all of Alameda County. Everything posts to Oakland on the same terms as everywhere else — free over $75, and no pharmacy counter to stand at.