PalStars Grade: how the condition report works
Every pulled card on Pal Stars gets a PalStars Grade shown above the card — a 1.0–10.0 score built from four sub-grades. A flawless Gem Mint 10 lands on roughly 1.2% of cards, and everything else carries its exact faults: off-centre borders, soft corners, edge whitening or print lines.
Updated 2026-08-02
- ✓The four sub-grades
- ✓The weakest link rule
- ✓Reading the defect list
- ✓Why 10s are capped
The four sub-grades
Centering, corners, edges and surface are each scored out of 10, exactly as the real grading companies do it.
The weakest link rule
The overall PalStars Grade is dragged toward the worst sub-grade, so a single soft corner is enough to keep a card off a 10.
Reading the defect list
Any card below 10 shows a plain-language defect list so you know whether it is a binder card, a trade card or a discard.
Why 10s are capped
Perfect 10s are deliberately rare at about 1.2% of pulls, so a Gem Mint 10 in your binder means something to other collectors.
Grade drives value
On the daily top-pull board, score is rarity multiplied by grade — an OSR at 9.5 outranks a higher rarity in rough shape.