TrickMagic.com is a great site to pick up free magic card tricks. Impressive tricks like backpalming / producing cards for the air, springing the cards and cards from the mouth are only three examples of the many cards tricks available at this site.

The site owner has a separate page for each of his magic tricks and provides a full description complete with illustrations showing exactly how each trick should be performed.

Also included on the site are many great articles on the rules of magic providing insights into 'What a magic trick is not', 'When to perform magic' and ''The history of playing cards'.

One lovely comment on the site is included in the 'backpalming' trick page and describes how a visitor to the site emailed the owner to thank him for this trick as it had actually gotten him a job. His new prospective boss was so impressed with the way the man performed the trick at his interview he hired him right then and there, but on top of that he also took the man all around the office showing everyone the trick.

Site #2 - eHow.com

eHow.com is a great place to find just about anything. It is an online community providing the opportunity for visitors to share, research and discuss solutions to all sorts of day-to-day tasks.

The eHow library currently has more than 600,000 articles and 160,000 high quality videos written by people who want to share their knowledge with eHow visitors.

eHow.com operates using a search engine. All you need to do is select either 'Article' or 'Video' and enter your search keyword e.g. 'free magic card tricks' and in this case 3,890 results will be returned for articles and 3,870 results for videos.

If you are starting out as a magician it is a great place to learn the basic techniques you will need to perform professionally.

There are lots of videos available for you to watch as often as you wish showing magicians performing techniques like: force techniques, card spring, false cuts, double lift, using telekinesis in magic tricks and many many more.

You will also find many magic tricks performed and explained in video and in the articles. You can print the articles to use when you practice.

Examples of tricks included are: The Floating Card Trick, The Envelope Prediction magic card trick, The Two Detectives card trick, The Eight-Nine card trick to name only a few of all the great free magic card tricks available for your to discover and enjoy at eHow.com.

Site #3 - Blifaloo.com

The slogan for the Blifaloo site is 'temporary boredom relief' and it certainly lives up to its claim.

The site contains, to quote: "Online Games, Optical illusions, Fun Quizzes, Magic and More" and as it is the free magic card tricks we are particularly interested in lets have a look.

Card tricks are available at two levels; easy and more advanced with an additional level for card sleights and flourishes.

Tricks in this section are provided in article format with some illustrations giving you further instructions showing how they are constructed.

The easy level contains tricks like 'the card bender', 'the tight deck pick' and 'reds and blacks'

The advanced level contains more complicated tricks like 'seeing is believing', 'teleporting cards' and 'number magic'.

The sleights and flourishes level contains techniques able to be used in many tricks and include: 'hinge color change', 'one handed palm' and 'the Danish force'.

Free magic card tricks can be found at many places online and with a bit of concentrated and repetitive practice you will soon have mastered many of them and be impressing your friends.