A spectator raises a deck of cards previously shuffled, shuffles it in turn and chooses a card from which to begin a journey that will inevitably end at a card that was prophesied from the beginning and which, lost in the deck, will be magically found by the magician at the very number assigned to it by that same path taken together.
This is a new Card Magic effect in which, after showing and quickly shuffling a standard deck of poker cards, the magician asks a spectator to cut the deck at any point and shuffle the portion of cards she has just lifted, then choose (at random or at her discretion) one card and place it face up on the table.
She is given the opportunity to change it, since it will mark the beginning of a journey within the deck that will lead her to a specific card, which the illusionist announces he has already predicted in a sealed envelope that he shows and leaves in plain sight, also on the table. Once the first card has been decided, the spectator stacks a number of cards equal to its value on the table, taking them from the top of the remaining deck; she turns the last of these cards face up, places it next to the first card turned over, and begins stacking other cards equal in number to its value… And so on, until it ends up on the last card or there are not enough cards left in the deck to cover the value of the last card turned over, which will therefore be declared as the CHOSEN CARD.
It will become clear that the path taken could not have been predicted, as it depended on the first card chosen. However, the magician will open his PREDICTION envelope and show the entire audience how "the PROPHECY has been fulfilled."
Immediately afterwards, he will also point out the other values of each of the cards turned face up during the "journey" and ask her to add them together, including the value of the chosen card, to define a totally random NUMBER. He will then lost the chosen card in the deck, which will be shuffled, cut into several parts, and reassembled.
The spectator will then take back all the cards and count them one by one, turning them face up from the top of the deck and stacking them, until she reaches that NUMBER. At that point, she will turn the card over and, incredibly, find again the one she chose!
