Gemi Grade Report
Wizards Black Star Promos
Published July 16, 2026
This card presents strong centering, clean corners, and essentially clean edges, with the main limitation coming from front holo surface scratching. The back glare slightly reduces inspection ease, but the available evidence is still sufficient to support a clear overall narrative.
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
Front and back centering are very close to balanced, with only a slight front left/right and top/bottom tilt that stays within an excellent range. The measured placement supports a true 10-level centering result.
Corner condition is effectively pristine overall. The only noted issue is a very faint trace of whitening on the back top-right corner, and it is subtle enough to remain consistent with a top-grade corners result.
Observed
Edge wear is not meaningfully present. The only edge-related note is a tiny faint speck in the front yellow border near the lower right, which is negligible and does not indicate substantive edge wear.
Surface quality is held back by visible holo scratches on the front, including a clustered set of pale scratch lines in the upper-left artwork and a faint diagonal scratch cluster above Pikachu's head. A tiny dark speck in the front border is also present, and together these defects support a moderate surface deduction.
Observed
Surface (7.0) is the lowest of the four axes. It's the main thing keeping this card from a higher grade.
The limiting defect is Surface Scratch (moderate, front).
Bringing surface up to the level of the next-weakest axis (Centering, 10.0) would be the single biggest improvement available.
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