2. Card fishing
The magician asks a volunteer to pick a random card, and he shows it to the audience. Let’s say it was the 6 of hearts. Then the volunteer randomly places the card back into the deck. The magician drops the cards into a top hat. Next, he takes a simple rope. He drops the end of the rope into the hat, and…somehow pulls out the card that was picked before. The 6 of hearts!
How it’s done: First of all, the deck only appears to be an ordinary one. It contains 52 of the exact same card — the 6 of hearts. Second, inside the hat, one of the 6 of hearts is already tied to a short piece of trick rope with a powerful magnet on the end. The rope that the magician lowers into the hat also ends with a magnet. The 2 magnets attach to each other, and that’s how you get “your” card.