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petecldI beak conditions down into these 7 grades: Mint, Ex/Mt, EX, Vg/Ex, VG, Good, Fa/Pr and some of my condition quirks:
• A Mint card looks perfect to the human eye. Obviously using a loupe or a microscope will always turn up tiny imprefections but that's fine with me. Nothing is perfect and I've pulled cards out of packs that weren't Mint.
• A Ex card has to have corner tips that you would describe as "soft" and not "slightly rounded".
• A card with a crease or wrinkle regardless of how faint can't be called Ex.
• A card with a crease can still be called Vg if the rest of the card is exceptional. Same for a card with a very small spot of back damage.
• A NM card with more then 15% back damage can be no higher then Good.
• A card with any portion missing has to be called poor.
I like to sit outside, drink beer, and yell back at the people who yell at me. 