Magic is a performing creativity that entertains an audience by creating illusions of impossible or supernatural feats, using Magic Tricks purely natural means. These feats are called magic tricks, effects or illusions.

Some magicians have taken the controversial area that revealing the methods used in unconcerned works of magic can enhance the appreciation of the audience for cleverness of magic. Penn and Teller frequently perform tricks using transparent props to reveal how it is done, for example, although they almost always include additional unexplained effects at the end that are manufactured even more amazing by the revealing props being used. Val Valentino, as "The Masked Magician," revealed a number of secrets in a alternation of four Fox Network TV specials.