Interestingly, what is actually arguably the greatest card magic trick ever (the Berglas Effect <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/23/style/berglas-effect-card-trick.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/23/style/berglas-effect-card...</a> ) has been speculated to be essentially this trick, but done at scale with such subtlety that the victim never realizes that there were a bunch of tricks being done around him and <i>that</i> is how one of them worked out despite being impossible.