Description
“I can’t recommend it enough, There are some amazing tricks inside. Some that don’t even use a memorized deck. The Out of Order series is one of the most important trilogies since Mnemonica.” -Bernardo Sedlacek
The Final Volume in the Redford Stack Trilogy
The out of order series is where the order of s stacked deck stops being a limitation—and starts becoming a weapon.
Completely Out of Order is the long-awaited third volume in Patrick G. Redford’s stacked-deck series, and it goes further than any previous work in exploring what a deck can become once you stop treating the stack as something fragile. This book will change how you work with stacks forever.
Covering memorized decks, cyclical stacks (Si Stebbins), mathematical stacks, stay stacks, parallel/power stacks, impromptu stacks, half stacks, quarter stacks, and hybrid arrangements, it is the culmination of Patrick G. Redford’s work and the first book to treat disorder itself as a controllable resource.
Completely Out of Order boasts over fifty fully developed effects.
Inside, you’ll learn how to:
- Sort from chaos into stack using real-world methods, including multiple Chinese Shuffle systems to memorized order, Si Stebbins, and new deck order
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Move cleanly and invisibly between stacks—memorized to cyclical, cyclical to power stack, power stack to stay stack—sometimes from a shuffle
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Execute full-strength effects while the stack is falling apart, then rebuild it secretly under fire
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Deliberately destroy your stack for maximum impact and walk away clean
This volume contains working material—not theory dumps, not pipe dreams:
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Two-deck impossibilities that look like coincidence but hit like prophecy
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Stack-safe miracles, poker deals, faro demonstrations, impossible mind reading, and multiple selection routines
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Four-of-a-kind modes, romantic deal-outs, red-black miracles, and Gilbreath work that actually fools magicians
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The Echo Index Deluxe, a modular indexing system that turns duplicates, wallets, envelopes, and even business cards into weapons
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New Redford variation stacks, including Patrick Redford’s Redford-Lite and Jennifer Gwinn’s Tetra-Red, designed for speed, flexibility, and deception
Completely Out of Order is where Redford opens the vault.
You’ll find previously unpublished material from Bob Stencel’s private notebooks, plus collaborations with Max Maven, Matt Baker, Joshua Jay, Pit Hartling, and others—names that don’t lend their work lightly.
“I believe that Patrick has now published more about the memorized and stacked deck than anyone else in the history of magic. With this volume he has cemented his legacy as a top-notch creator.” -Matt Baker
“Pay attention to the beautiful subtleties and genuine psychology Patrick shares. He is wise beyond his years!” – Peter Turner
“Patrick is a creative force to be reckoned with. When he sees potential in a concept, he is relentless in squeezing out the maximum effect.” -Mike Powers
“His work on the Forgotten Ploy is on the cutting edge of mentalism. His thinking is unique and fresh. It’s is like taking a wild ride on the roller coaster of his mind. You will enjoy the many surprising twists and turns.” – Christian Painter
Let your deck get messy—because you know you can always bring it back to order (and Redford shows you how).
Completely Out of Order doesn’t just expand the Redford Stack System.
It breaks it apart, recombines it, and hands it back to you sharper than ever.
If you’ve read Temporarily Out of Order and Sleightly Out of Order, this is the book they were pointing toward. Start here
If you haven’t, this is the book that will make you wish you had.
Either way, once you read it,
you won’t be afraid of a shuffled deck ever again.
Hardcover, 8.5″ x 11″ 355 pages
Expected Delivery March/April, 2026
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword by Matt Baker
Smoke & Mirrors an Introduction
A Quick Note If You’re New Here
Openers with a New Deck
Are You Being Served?
Oil, Water, & Si-Stebbins
Setting Redford Review
From a Shuffle Deck to Stack: Sorting Techniques
Incondite Sort
Double Ternion Sort
Chinese Shuffle to Any Memorized Order
Chinese Shuffle to Si-Stebbins
“Dialing to Stack”
Bob Stencel’s Chinese Shuffle in 4 to Si-Stebbins
Chinese Shuffle to New Deck Order
Two Deck Effects
Completely Out of Order: An Improbable Auspicious Coincidence
Factory Reset
Shuffle in Retrograde
Si-Stebbins, Parallel, & Combination Stack
Order Out of Chaos Triumph
One Better
A Vegan Goes Fishing
Let’s Go Fish Again
Mated Parallel Lines
Gilbreath Principle and the Red-Black Stack
Intuition Separation Revisited
Challenge Color Sense1
One Way or Another (I’m Going to Get You)
Forward Facing Thoughts
One Directional Mindset
Stack Builders: Thought Master
- Histed Heisted (with control)
- Finger Gun Divination
- OFM Update from Stack to Si-Stebbins
- Thought Master like Presentation
- Tally Ho Marking System
- No Stack Thought Master
Four of a Kind Mode
Four Chances: A Losing Proposition
Vaunted Voyeur: Participant Cuts Any Four of a Kind (Marlo/Redford)
Romantic Interludes: The Deal Out
The Lovers
Any Card @ Any Dead Magician
‘Cu-pat’ (Pit Hartling and Patrick G. Redford)
The Poker Games and the Faro
Redford Hold’em Demonstration
20 Card Poker Deal
Jay Bird (Joshua Jay & Patrick Redford)
Pokericulum (Alex Elmsley)
Five Hands Lucky
Stack Safe Effects (effects that don’t disrupt a stack)
Stack-Safe Suoitibma Drac
Red-Black Shuffle
Y.E.A.S.T. RISING CARD
The Echo Index Deluxe
Construction and Setup of the Echo Index
Access Any Duplicate Card
Double-Faced Card Setup
Index to Wallet/Envelope
Alternative Setup
Business Card Index
Mercury Fold Index
Brainwave
Two Cards One Pocket
Jokers are Driving Me Wild
Stack Destroyers
Bait & Swap
Bangerang
Ninja Mindmeld
From Robert Stencel’s Notebooks
Baker’s Dozen
6 Card Selections with a Memorized Deck
Another Approach to Stebbins & Multiple Selection (Stencel Destroyer)
Redford’s Approach to the Multiple Selection Stack
Stencel Stunner
Poor Man’s Stebbins
Stacked with Friends
The Osprey – Max Maven
Intercalated Joker – Dan Huffman and Patrick G. Redford
Raining Revelations – Nick Pudar
Divine Flicker- Nick Pudar and Patrick G. Redford
Invisibly Triggered – Griffin Watts and Patrick G. Redford
Stebbin’s Magic Square – Jorrit Schulte with Patrick G. Redford
Three More
The World’s Greatest Detectives
Memorized OP Spread
Anagnorisis
Sorry, Out of Order
A Devilish Stunt
Moonshine
An Unexplainable Trap
An Open Letter to the Stack Deck User
Redford Stack Variation Stacks
Redford-Lite (a Tetradistic Redford Stack)
Tetra-Red (Jennifer Gwinn)
Utilities
Triple False Cut
F.A.L.S.E. Shuffle
Redfish Shuffle
Classic Force Application
Center Card Reverse Technique
The Redfish Card Swap
Afterword





