Rabbits' Magic Pocket

Any deck, any time

impromptu

sleight of hand

You can use any deck for this trick. The spectator can shuffle the card.

Start by cutting the deck into 3 approximately equal piles. Ask the spectator to choose one of these : he can look at the top card. Next, turn this pile upside-down and put it between the 2 others back together. The spectator can do all of this too behind your back to give them a sens of control.

Ask now the spectator to cut the deck in half. Be sure that they cut on a face-up card. If they can, the spectator can do a riffle shuffle, otherwise you can do it. They can finally choose to turn the deck or not.

You can show the deck is shuffled to the spectator, and at the same time, look for a big chunk of cards facing the same direction.

If the big chunk is face-up, the spectator's card is the first face-down card below.
If the big chunk is face-down, the spectator's card is the first face-up card above.

Note

You now have 2 options. One is more of a slow reveal, whereas the other is more lazy, so you need to do a great performance.

Option 1 : Slow reveal

Cut the deck 2 cards above the spectator's card. Do a break with your pinky finger below the 3rd card, in order to do a double lift. Say you will deal 2 piles on the table, one with face-up cards, and the other with face-down cards. Ask the spectator to say "stop" whenever they see their card, which won't happen.

You can show the deck in which the spectator's card is not to prove them their card has disappeared.

Put the 2 decks back together by turning one of them upside-down, in order to put the spectator's card in the middle. You can do a little wave with your hands if you want, and spread the deck. The only card facing a different direction will be the spectator's selected card.

Option 2 : Read mind

If you want a simpler reveal, you can simply spread the cards and look for the spectator's one using instructions above.

Say you will try to read the spectator's mind, or their facial expressions. Proceed by eliminating slowly the cards facing differently, then by little chunks.

You can insist on the "reading minds" aspect once you have only a few cards left.

This reveal is great for shorter tricks if someone ask you one.