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Powers/Abilities: Jack's primary focus is up-close magic and sleight of hand. He can throw cards with extreme accuracy and force, even using one to cut Agent Rhodes's face during their confrontation. He is seen in canon to be able to remove a man's watch and wallet without being caught until he was well away from the scene; in a deleted scene, he is also able to switch much of the clothing of a pair of volunteers without them catching on. He can palm cards and pingpong balls with ease, as shown during his fight with Agent Rhodes and during the Las Vegas show, respectively. He has also never met a lock he couldn't open, including handcuffs, which he can slip with barely a second thought. He can mimic voices easily, as shown during the fight in the apartment when he fools the FBI's response team by copying Agent Rhodes's voice over the radio.

Jack knows how to read a person's body language and tell how they are going to move. Because of this and his smaller than average size, he can slip easily through crowds, frequently without being noticed. He is an excellent hand-to-hand fighter, though he has never had any formal training and might just be described as a scrapper. He knows how to make use of his surroundings and how to use his other skills at magic to win a fight, including throwing cards or flash paper to distract his opponent or how to get them tangled up in their own clothing. To say he is fearless would not be entirely correct, but he has never entered a fight he didn't expect to win.

On their downtime, Jack has also learned to make use of his real magic. Throughout the film, he managed to tap into it, though he didn't know at the time that it was anything beyond his own skill. Some of the things he can do with real magic include: creating bursts of flame without the use of flash paper, creating electricity ranging from static shocks up to milder ones, producing real seeming illusions, and travelling quickly between points by the Eye's network of interconnected points. Whatever use he puts his actual magic to, it does take a physical toll on him, though he has worked enough with some of it to increase his stamina, to do more with less recovery time needed.