RANCHO CORDOVA, California, USA, August 15, 2026 — Murphy’s Magic has released Sucker Punch: Revolutions, a spiritual successor to the 2016 release of the original Sucker Punch, created by the late Mark Southworth. The original set introduced many magicians to gaffed coin work by offering gimmicked poker chips that mirrored the design of expensive coin gaffs at a fraction of the cost, and became one of Murphy’s best-selling products.
The Revolutions version shares that founding philosophy but is a distinct product. While Lloyd Barnes was still working at Murphy’s Magic, he designed an entirely new collection of seven gimmicks rather than expanding on the original set, and Craig Petty developed and teaches the routines built around them. Barnes spent roughly eighteen months developing the new gimmicks, after which Petty spent about a year testing the resulting routines in professional settings, including bars, nightclubs, corporate events, and weddings.
Southworth built the original fourteen-piece set to open up the same range of effects associated with premium coin gaffs, including vanishes, productions, color changes, transpositions, and penetrations, at a far lower cost than traditional coin sets. The larger, high-contrast red and blue chips were also intended to solve a longstanding low-contrast visibility problem in copper/silver routines, reading more clearly to larger audiences than coins typically do. Southworth’s concept changed the game for magic enthusiasts by creating a cost-effective bridge to the world of gaffed coin magic.
The new Sucker Punch: Revolutions set includes seven specialized gimmicks and four regular, non-gimmicked chips: a Slippery Sam, a Locking Flipper Chip, a three-way Folding Chip, a Sharpie Through Chip gimmick, a Chip Shell, a hollowed Chip Stack gimmick, and a Floating Chip gimmick. The set also includes replacement elastics and extra red and blue stickers. None of the original Sucker Punch gimmicks appear in Revolutions. Barnes designed both the gimmick mechanics and the chips’ printed artwork, using the pattern to visually disguise the seams and cuts created by certain gimmicks, including the Folding Chip and the Sharpie Through Chip. Owners of the original Sucker Punch can use the included stickers to re-sticker their existing chips to match the new design, though the two sets remain functionally separate.
The set supports vanishes, appearances, penetrations, and transformations, along with Copper/Silver-style routines. The penetration effects use a standard drinking glass, and the Folding Chip gimmick enables a chip-in-bottle effect. The Chip Stack gimmick allows a chip to vanish from the spectator’s own hand before the remaining stack transforms into candy. The toolkit is built to function as a self-contained pocket set, with routines designed to combine into a single extended performance rather than stand as isolated tricks.
Sucker Punch: Revolutions ships with a four-and-a-half-hour video tutorial in which Petty walks through every gimmick, covering setup, reset, and multiple handlings and routines for each piece, along with roughly an hour of additional live performance footage filmed with real audiences. A separate section teaches the foundational sleights used throughout the set, including the finger palm, thumb palm, classic palm, French drop, and other coin-specific moves. Petty structured the instruction to be accessible to performers with no prior coin magic experience.
Early reviews of Sucker Punch: Revolutions have been largely positive. Jeremy Tan of The Magic Breakdown called it “the best and most extensive set of gimmick poker chips on the market right now.” Alan of AlanMagician described the release as “the best value for a magic project released in 2026.” Fiddlin’ Johnny said the accompanying instruction was “one of the better tutorials” he had seen in some time.
Sucker Punch: Revolutions carries a suggested retail price of $45.00 and is available through most magic dealers. The price is a modest increase over the original Sucker Punch’s $39.95 price point considering the extensive range of gaffs included in the new set.
Southworth, also known for his bestselling Double Cross, remains an influence in the magic world after his passing, and his legacy continues with releases like this one.
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