Gemi Grade Report
SM Black Star Promos
Published June 21, 2026
This Latios promo shows excellent centering and a very clean surface, but the grade is held back by visible corner wear and some light edge whitening. The back inspection also has minor glare, which limits clarity in a small area but does not change the overall defect pattern.
Image Quality
Parts of this scan are hard to inspect. Glare, overexposure, or low detail may reduce grading confidence.
Grade Shape
Four-axis score profile
Centering is effectively perfect on the front and still solid on the back, with only a slight top/bottom shift on the front and a modest left/right offset on the back. The measured proportions support a top-tier centering result.
Corner wear is the main limiting factor here, with moderate chipping at the back top-left and bottom-right corners and lighter nicking at the other two corners. The wear is visible at the tips and along the rounded edges, which is consistent with a mid-level corners result.
Observed
Edge wear is present but mostly light, showing small white nicks and whitening along the cut edges on both the front and back. The defects are scattered and minor rather than heavy or continuous, which supports a strong but not pristine edges result.
Observed
The surface itself appears largely clean, with only tiny pale specks on the back border and no meaningful scratches, dents, creases, or print-line issues reported. A small area of back-center glare reduces inspection clarity, but the observed surface marks are negligible and do not indicate broader surface damage.
Observed
Corners (5.0) is the lowest of the four axes. It's the main thing keeping this card from a higher grade.
The limiting defect is Corner Wear (moderate, back).
Bringing corners up to the level of the next-weakest axis (Edges, 7.0) would be the single biggest improvement available.
Verified
Latios
smp · SM136