RIP

The cleanup here is what sold me. In the old version you're stuck holding four pieces nobody can touch, but this handling lets you end totally clean with the card restored in their hand. Genuinely fooled me the first time I watched it.

I've always hated the fiddly moment where you have to show four separate pieces, so the fact that this strips all of that out is huge for me. The handling is clean and the reveal genuinely fooled the guys at my local shop.

I've messed with torn and restored for years and the piecing-together part always killed the flow, so cutting that out entirely is a relief. The handling finally makes sense in real performance instead of just in a mirror.