Gemi Grade Report
Chaos Rising
Published June 19, 2026
This Ho-Oh shows excellent centering and strong overall preservation, with the main wear concentrated in a few minor back corner nicks and one small edge chip. Surface handling appears minimal, with only a tiny back speck noted and no meaningful front-side damage identified.
Image Quality
• Strong lighting reflections cover parts of the artwork and lower text area, making inspection unreliable.
• Parts of this scan are hard to inspect. Glare, overexposure, or low detail may reduce grading confidence.
Grade Shape
Four-axis score profile
The card is very well centered on both sides, with the front reading essentially 49/51 left-right and 51/49 top-bottom, and the back also staying close to even despite a slight top-heavy shift. This supports a top centering result.
Corner condition is solid overall but not pristine, with several small white nicks and light wear marks on the back corners, including the top-right, top-left, and bottom-left areas. The wear is minor but repeated enough to keep the corners from a higher level.
Observed
Edges are mostly clean, with only one small chip/whitening noted along the front cut edge near a corner. That isolated, minor edge nick is consistent with a strong edge result.
Observed
Surface condition is essentially clean, with only a tiny isolated white speck on the back art as the noted blemish. Front glare made some artwork and lower text areas harder to inspect, but no significant surface wear was identified in the available evidence.
Observed
Corners (8.0) 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 (minor, back).
Bringing corners up to the level of the next-weakest axis (Edges, 9.0) would be the single biggest improvement available.
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