Sleight-of-hand magic is just as real as spellcasting magic.

[which is all he says as he scoops the cards up and starts to shuffle them]

So it looked like a normal deck, right? No doubles, no marked cards, no anything. . . although the first four cards on the top of this deck are pretty unique.

[he stops shuffling and flips the first four cards over-- they're all jacks, and each one is of a different suit]