Gemi Grade Report
Flashfire
Published July 20, 2026
This card presents excellent centering and clean corners, with only light edge wear. The surface is the main issue because of a noticeable front scratch and a few small specks.
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
Centering is very strong on both sides, with the front measuring about 48.2/51.8 left-right and 49.1/50.9 top-bottom, and the back similarly close to even. That level of balance supports a top centering result.
The corner scans did not show any meaningful corner wear or whitening, and no corner defects were called out on either side. That is consistent with a pristine corner result.
Edge wear is light overall, with only a few tiny white nicks/whitening marks visible on the back cut edge. The back scan has minor glare that reduces detail slightly, but the observed edge blemishes are still limited enough to fit a near-gem edge result.
Observed
The surface shows the main limitation for the card: a moderate diagonal scratch crossing the center of the front art, plus a couple of tiny dark specks in the lower text area. Those defects are visible enough to clearly justify a lower surface result than the other components.
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 (Edges, 9.0) would be the single biggest improvement available.
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