The stripper deck card trick

The stripper deck is a special deck of cards used by Criss Angel when he was first learning magic tricks. The playing cards are designed to indistinguishable from a regular deck to the untrained eye. Because of the special properties of this gimmicked deck the magician can perform a wide variety of card tricks that appear to require a great amount of skill but are actually very easy to do. You can shuffle the cards as much as you like but still have instant access to a particular card or a group of cards whenever you like. This is really a great deck of cards that can do many tricks. I'm sure Criss Angel doesn't use a stipper deck or tapered cards any more, but they are a great starting point.