We all need tricks - otherwise no magic as we see it - but just as buying a hammer does not make one a carpenter, having more tricks will not make one a magician without proper scripting, acting, blocking, personality, etc etc etc...

100% correct.

well said but if you go to home depot or lowes and they ask you for 30 bucks for one nail but it comes with a dvd talking about the history of the nail, funny stories of nails and different things that happened last few times you knocked a nail in youd be ****ed off

the point is, a dvd should have way more tricks on it, more effects etc

having said all this eugene is one of the better guys out there when it comes to teaching or so I feel, besides his dvd's I enjoyed watching him with max maven on many dvd's

I disagree about having a DVD contain 'way more tricks on it'. Why does that have to be the case? I assume that when we purchase books/dvds that we look at the description and the contents. If it didn't have a list of effects, then why must we assume it contains any effects at all? Information on theory is of upmost importance and vital, perhaps more so, than effects. It can applied to anything we perform. Effects are mostly standalone attractions.

I've put up a copy of this excellent series for sale for anyone who would like to benefit from Eugene's infinite wisdom.