Magic supplies in Westminster, Adams County, Colorado

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. Most working repertoires are still mostly cards, and most of them start here.

The quietest magic and often the strongest. Forcing dice, a dice box that reads what is shaken inside it, brass mental dice and PK rings 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.

The first year is about repetition, not acquisition. Pick one effect, perform it a hundred times for real people, and only then buy the second one. Everything in the beginner collection is chosen to survive that kind of use.

Look for a magic shop in Westminster and you will turn up costume shops and toy sections. Neither stocks a Svengali deck or a close-up mat worth owning. The props a performer actually wants come by post, which is why every listing here says what is in the box, whether instructions come with it, and how hard the thing is to do.

The mountain states are spread thin, so performers travel for the work and pack accordingly — close-up material that fits in a case earns more here than apparatus that needs a van. Denver and Salt Lake City are the two cities with enough performers to sustain a regular scene.

We post to Westminster like anywhere else in the country. That covers all of Adams County. Orders over $75 ship free to Westminster, as anywhere else.