Complex sentence: Whether card magic or magic performed with coins, balls or scarves, even occasionally mentalism, the ability to draw and hold an audience is cited by contemporary practitioners as a skill of greater importance than the illusions themselves.
Split into simpler sentences: Whether card magic or magic performed with coins, balls or scarves, even occasionally mentalism. Regardless of the props involved, the ability to draw and hold an audience is cited by contemporary practitioners as a skill of greater importance than the illusions themselves.