Dictionary

"The Four Ace Trick" (see) being the most usual synonym

Famous versions are the "Collins' Aces" and the "McDonald Aces".

It was first described (but not created) by "Jean-Nicolas Ponsin in Nouvelle Magie Blanche Devoilee" (1853).

A playing card faked so that when placed face-down, it will flip over to reveal its face. 

Thought to have been invented by Joe Fenichel.  Used as a startling revelation of a card 

selected by a force.  REF: Ed Marlo, On The Acrobatic Cards (1968); Waters (1988), 3. 

The sleight that secretly adds indifferent cards in one hand to a supposedly fair packet in the other.

Invented by Dai Vernon (although often miscredited to Charlie Miller) and first published by him in 1932.

The Add-on being the most usual synonym.

Invented by Dai Vernon (although often miscredited to Charlie Miller) and first published by him in 1932.

Effect where a spectator selects cards bearing the number corresponding to his age, which the magus immediately reveals.

Worked mathematically.  By assigning a binary value to each card the performer discovers the spectator's  thought-of card.  

In 1910 Theodore L. DeLand adapted this principle as the method for his Million Dollar Mystery card trick. 

Invented by U.S. magician-mentalist Al Baker and first marketed by him in 1933. 

The effect where the face-cards in a deck or packet are replaced by their backs.

First marketed in Linking Ring in Aug 1930 by Jean Hugard who claimed its invention on that occasion.

In 1933 Ralph Hull marketed his gaffed N.R.A. Deck, one of whose sequences produced an All Backs effect.

The first all-sleights version was the famous Dai Vernon one,

which he first published in Hugard's Magic Monthy in Jun 1949 and again,

in more detailed form, in Hugard & Braue’s Expert Card Technique (3rd ed, 1950).

Invented in 1987 by Swedish engineer and amateur magician Goran Klyve and marketed thru Harries. 

No marked cards,You may hand out the cards and the pad for examination through a microscope,

No peeking or glimpsing,No memory work,No confederates,You can even do it blindfolded

Spectator may put cards in non-transparent envelopes before you enter the room.

A set of cards whose faces show 52 assorted letters of the alphabet. 

Used for tricks (such as Alpha Mind) where words are spelled out by selected cards or with special audiences whose religious principles define standard playing cards as "the devil's pasteboards."  Believing that the specially printed Alphabet Decks might seem suspicious to audiences, some magi, particularly mentalists, use such popular commercial alphabetized game decks as Lexicon (since 1932) and Bali.  See also Number Cards, which serve the same purpose.

Popular card trick whose effect is that a chosen card, although repeatedly replaced mid-deck, constantly returns to the top.

Invented by French card-conjurer Alberti in the mid-1800s.

“Dai Vernon used a double-back card to fool Houdini during the days when faked cards were rare and difficult to come by. He used it in an Ambitious Card demonstration." — Jon Racherbaumer in The Linking Ring (May 1995), 90.

One particular mechanically-operated deck of playing cards used for the Rising Cards effect

Operated by a gravity-driven elevator concealed in a hollow deck. This method was first conceived by American magician Dr. L. Vosburgh Lyons 

and shown in 1936 in his home-made model to an enthusiastic Ted Annemann.

In June 1948, British amateur magician Harry "Devano" Mitchell used the same basic mechanism in a mechanical deck that could, however, be fanned.

This substantially improved version was popularized by Don Alan on the Ed Sullivan TV show.

Classic card effect where four aces are dealt face down, have three indifferent cards dealt on each ace; yet, 

when any stack is selected, the four aces are found in that packet

The invention of this classic trick was attributed to French conjuror Conus (died 1836) by Robert-Houdin.

First published in 1853 by Ponsin.