Gemi Grade Report
MEP Black Star Promos
Published August 2, 2026
This Squirtle promo presents as a clean example with strong corners and surface, light edge wear, and only mild centering drift. The main caution is that the back-side scan quality limited confidence in a few observations, so the centering and some defect calls were handled conservatively.
Image Quality
Parts of this scan are hard to inspect. Glare, overexposure, or low detail may reduce grading confidence.
2 back-side defects ignored due to scan quality.
Grade Shape
Four-axis score profile
The card shows mild centering drift on both faces, with a slight lean to the right and bottom on the front and a somewhat stronger rightward/vertical imbalance on the back. The centering result is capped because the back measurement confidence is below the preferred threshold, so the final result reflects the best reliable estimate rather than a fully certain reading.
Reliable corner views are clean, and the front corners show no scoreable wear. A bit of wear was visible at the back top-left corner, but it sat in an image-quality affected region and was excluded from scoring, so the corner result is based on the usable evidence only.
Observed
Edge wear is light overall, with a small whitening/chip-like break visible on the front right edge near the corner. A second tiny nick on the back edge was also observed, but it was excluded from scoring because that area was affected by glare/low detail.
Observed
No scoreable surface defects were detected on either the front art scan or the back art scan. The visible evidence does not show scratches, dents, creases, print lines, spots, or foil wear that would reduce the surface result.
Centering (8.0) is the lowest of the four axes. It's the main thing keeping this card from a higher grade.
Bringing centering up to the level of the next-weakest axis (Edges, 9.0) would be the single biggest improvement available.
Verified
Squirtle
mep · 039