Gemi Grade Report
MEP Black Star Promos
Published June 3, 2026
The card shows excellent centering and clean corners, with only minor edge wear. The main limitation is the front lower-surface crease/wrinkle area, which is the dominant detractor.
Image Quality
Parts of this scan are hard to inspect. Glare, overexposure, or low detail may reduce grading confidence.
3 back-side defects ignored due to scan quality.
Grade Shape
Four-axis score profile
The card is very well centered overall, with the front essentially 50/50 left-to-right and only a slight top/bottom tilt. The back is also close to balanced, so the centering result is fully consistent with a top mark.
No reliable corner wear is visible on the primary corner scan, and the back-corner note was too soft and compressed to score confidently. That supports a pristine corner result, with no confirmed corner damage affecting the grade.
Observed
A small white chip/irregular edge break is visible on the front edge strip, which is enough to keep the edges from a perfect result. Additional tiny back-side edge wear was noted but excluded from scoring because the region was affected by image quality, so the grade is based on the clear front-side evidence.
Observed
The surface grade is held down by the lower-front crease and wrinkle running just above the bottom border, including a broader shallow crease toward the lower right and a smaller pressed line near the lower center. The small back-side speck and border mark were not used in scoring because they fell in an image-quality-affected region.
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 Crease (moderate, front).
Bringing surface up to the level of the next-weakest axis (Edges, 9.0) would be the single biggest improvement available.
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