Wondering about your thoughts on the new border with the Sun & Moon full arts and how it might relate to grading. It seems like the addition of the lined border takes up space and accentuates less than perfect centering. I’m not sure if the overall product seems to have really poor centering issues or if the new border makes it appear worse. Either way, what impact, if any, do you feel this will have when cards come back from PSA?
In the case I got all the secrets were offcenter. Rather disappointing to say the least.
Only opened a single box, and the centering wasn’t bad, but I’ve been frustrated in my search for gradable cards on eBay. Centering mostly, thus this thread, but even the quality of the back borders seems worse than Evolutions.
I noticed that as well, quite a few came from the pack with white marks.
Evolutions set had this same problem and it’s a bummer for sure. It’s like a punch in the gut when you pull a secret rare like that. So far I haven’t got anything too crazy off center in sun and moon (knock on wood). It should definitely affect the grade tho because it does take away from the appeal.
lol i pulled some japanese Ultra Rares, with utterly terrible centering, and one had minor side edge wear/freying. Some are great, but i had one bad pull.
I think it’s worth noting that for English cards they have at least 2 print facilities, one much better than the other, for evolutions I saw everyone from the US saying how the quality had improved so much and yet I have opened a load of packs and boxes from stores here in the UK and the condition straight out the pack has been consistently awful.