Gemi Grade Report
MEP Black Star Promos
Published August 19, 2026
This card presents very strongly overall, with near-perfect centering, clean corners, and only a minor edge nick plus a negligible surface speck. Minor glare was noted in the scans, but the available evidence is still sufficient to support a high-grade narrative.
Image Quality
• Parts of this scan are hard to inspect. Glare, overexposure, or low detail may reduce grading confidence.
• Parts of this scan are hard to inspect. Glare, overexposure, or low detail may reduce grading confidence.
Grade Shape
Four-axis score profile
Measured centering is essentially dead on, with the front reading very close to 51/49 both ways and the back reading perfectly balanced left-to-right with only a mild top/bottom shift. The card presents as strongly centered overall, consistent with the top score.
No corner wear was detected on either side, and the corner scans do not show rounding, whitening, or chips. The corners support a pristine result.
Edge wear is limited to a small white nick/chip on the far left section of the back cut edge with slight boundary whitening. That isolated minor nick explains a small deduction while the rest of the edges appear clean.
Observed
The surface is otherwise clean, with only a tiny isolated pale speck in the lower-left blue background on the back, just left of the lower Pokémon logo. The defect is negligible and localized, so it does not materially affect the overall surface presentation.
Observed
Edges (9.0) is the lowest of the four axes. It's the main thing keeping this card from a higher grade.
The limiting defect is Edge Wear (minor, back).
Bringing edges up to the level of the next-weakest axis (Centering, 10.0) would be the single biggest improvement available.
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