Gemi Grade Report
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Published July 4, 2026
This card shows excellent overall preservation, with strong centering and clean corners and surface. The main visible issue is a small amount of edge wear on the front left edge, while other noted defects were in glare-affected regions and not used for scoring.
Image Quality
• Parts of this scan are hard to inspect. Glare, overexposure, or low detail may reduce grading confidence.
• Strong lighting glare across the upper-left and center of the card obscures part of the surface and border.
• Parts of this scan are hard to inspect. Glare, overexposure, or low detail may reduce grading confidence.
• Strong glare across the upper half of the card obscures the name area and much of the artwork.
• 1 front-side defect ignored due to scan quality.
• 3 back-side defects ignored due to scan quality.
Grade Shape
Four-axis score profile
Centering is strong on both sides, with the front measuring nearly even left-to-right and only a slight vertical tilt, and the back also staying close to balanced overall. The measured offsets are well within a top-tier presentation range, supporting a perfect centering result.
The corners present as clean overall, with no reliable wear visible in the assessed corner scans. A back top-left corner anomaly was noted, but it was in an image-quality-affected region and was not dependable enough to influence the grade.
Observed
Edges are mostly clean, but there is a small nick/whitening on the front left cut edge that gives the edge work a slight reduction from pristine. Another nearby edge break was observed in a glare-affected region and was excluded from scoring, so the result rests on the clear, minor wear that is actually reliable.
Observed
The surface reads as clean overall, with no dependable scratches, dents, creases, or print-line issues in the assessed scans. Tiny back-side specks were observed, but they fell in image-quality-affected areas and were excluded from grade impact, leaving the surface result effectively pristine.
Observed
Edges (9.0) is the lowest of the four axes. It's the main thing keeping this card from a higher grade.
The limiting defect is Edge Wear (minor, front).
Bringing edges up to the level of the next-weakest axis (Centering, 10.0) would be the single biggest improvement available.
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