Gemi Grade Report
Base Set
Published August 24, 2026
The card shows excellent centering and generally clean edges, but corner wear and scattered surface marks keep it from the top tier. Glare affected parts of the inspection, yet the visible defects are still enough to explain the mid-range component results.
Image Quality
• Strong central glare from lighting obscures much of the card back, especially the Poké Ball area.
• Strong lighting glare across the lower center of the holo area obscures part of the card surface and makes inspection less reliable.
4 back-side defects ignored due to scan quality.
Grade Shape
Four-axis score profile
Measured centering is very strong on both sides, with the front and back sitting close to balanced left/right and top/bottom. The slight offsets are small enough that the card presents as well-centered overall.
Corner wear is the main limiting factor here, led by clear whitening and a larger chip/scrape on the front bottom-right corner. Smaller nicks and tip wear on the other corners keep the corner quality solidly below top-tier.
Observed
The edge result is supported by only minor edge wear, and the back-edge nicks that were detected fell in image-quality-affected regions and were excluded from scoring. What remains is limited and not severe enough to suggest significant edge deterioration.
Observed
Surface condition is held back by multiple small dark spots on the front border and a thin scratch/crease along the right side, along with scattered specks across the back. Strong glare on the back obscured part of the Poké Ball area, so the observed surface flaws are the reliable basis for this result.
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, front).
Bringing corners up to the level of the next-weakest axis (Surface, 5.0) would be the single biggest improvement available.
Verified
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