On purpose to indicate the 9 Nazguls that are looking for it.

I have said this before but I think they should have graded it as a 1

If an MTG card is "worth" more than 114 euros, it costs more than its weight in gold. for a piece of printed paper

Centering can't be a grading factor, as the card was the only one printed. So how ever it was centered is the way it was supposed to be centered. If it wasn't, then they would just redo it.

We all know that the harder it is to open a pack, the better the pull for that pack. Must have took tremendous force to open the one of one ring pack that slightly damaged the cards inside.

it's incredibly amazing how easily a card can degrade in quality seemingly from the moment it was printed and put into a booster pack at the packing/processing stage. One would think the card was immidiately put into a sleeve upon being pulled from booster pack, however, some people slide the card that was just in front of it just bad enough to cause damage to the pricey card.

The only way to get a full 10/10 card is getting it right from the factory and having it sealed right as it comes off the press, the alignment needs to be spot on and it can't get scratched/ damaged while in the printing process So unless you work the factory and made a 2nd copy for yourself and knew what you're doing the cards for consumer use will never fully be a 10/10

I feel the owner should have gotten it graded for authenticity and not a grading number. The number does nothing for the conductibility of the card and it just being authenticated on the label would have made the card look better to potential buyers

It's really difficult to keep cards 100% intact and even a minor scuff caused by the several people who handled the card.

The people who left those comments obviously (and I mean this with the utmost respect) have absolutely no clue what grading a card actually means.

If you watch the video where they're showing this card off before it was even packaged it was already significantly warped. I think the unprofessional and mentally disturbed employees at Wizards of the Coast were gnawing on this card for several days.

What I’ve been told is that the grading process compares the card to other cards that are literally the same printing. Meaning, that this card must have the best corners, edges, etc out of any 001/001 ring since it is the only one. This could be wrong but I wanted to mention this so that people can know a little bit more detail as to what this video was made to contrast.

I don’t think the owner dropped the card, they probably made a shit quality card to begin with 👍

Well, it is in better condition than the one at the end of the books.

Rating means nothing if it is LITERALLY 1 of 1 tho. They only work relative to eachother 🤷🏽‍♂️

The problem with all card grading companies is the fact that you can resend in cards and get better scores. Their grading isn't objective. One of one cards like this unfortunately get to not be graded by the same company at least.

Basically the pop report doesn't determine the grade. Also the fact that it's the only one is meaningless to the grade because it's grade is compared to other cards in the same set, not just to itself. One of the things the PSA company does is the set registry where people try to build their own "set"" which could be an actual set or it could be a theme across sets. For example, lets pretend people really love Jace, the character in Magic. So someone says I want to get every Jace card in PSA 10 including foreign languages, foils, full arts, etc. You can petition PSA to create this as a "registry set" and the same people will submit to PSA the list of what is all of the known Jace cards. Then the collectors, each will have a user name on PSA website, can say "here is my Jace collection in PSA 10" and other people can browse that set, see what everyone building this set has so far. One guy could be the furthest in building the set and he has 72% of the set built where another person just starting could have 15%. One of these set registries that is the most popular is getting older baseball card sets like 1983 Topps Baseball, 792 freaking cards to get in PSA 10. PSA also has a population report where you can see how many of a card was sent in to PSA to be graded and how many came back as a PSA 10. There are many cards in these older sets that have like 200 sent in, 0 came back PSA 10. These set registry collectors will pay triple, maybe even 4 digits for some common card that previously was pop 0 but now there is a first PSA 10. Why are there so many of these 0 pop cards that are easy to get and cost like 5 cents? Because on the actual printing sheet they are crooked on there so when normal cutting occurs, it is never PSA 10. In order to get a PSA 10, there will need to be such a odd tilt to the cutting that it just happens to cut correctly to center the crooked card AND the card needs to survive to this day with perfect surface, corners, etc. Thus since there are cards with pop 0 in a PSA 10 grade, like the 1/1 One Ring, we can see there is some sort of universal set-wide standard to judge against and not judging against itself. If it's judging against itself, who's to say which version is PSA 10 and what is a lower grade?

The grading companies knew it was coming so could have considered this matter ahead of time. For example, they could have graded it ‘Unique’, because it is a one off. That would have forgone the endless debate.

Tyler the warrior a 1/1 yugioh card got a beckett 7.

Grade is irrelevant with a 1/1........... its slabbed to protect it further mostly

Dude wasnt expecting to pull it so he wasnt wearing gloves.... more then likely putting some hand smudges or micro scratches on it

idk i got 3 of these now and they look great

Interesting

I'm here to point out there are cases on record of people re-sending 6s for grading and getting them back as 10s. 6s might be an rare occurence, but 9s and constantly re-graded as 10s all the time. Grading is not as much of a science as this video makes it out to be. The reason the card got graded at 9 could've just been that the particular grader that handled it that day felt like it.

this card went to post malone right?

psa is crazy i remember one of the paul brothers submitted the same charizard card and ended up getting a 10 how can you grade a 1/1 card I guess they can base it off previous magic cards on the centering and framing but there is no way unless damage or scratched it should be getting a 9

So its wizards fault? 1/1 and yall couldn’t make it right?! Id expect nothing less 😂

Because it was opened and touched by human hands...

Thats demential in lot of ways

Let's be honest here, It is more likely that wotc had a copy for advertising (that they destroyed before the release of the set) than using the same card that would be put in the booster

it's because MTG delivers foil cards BENT straight from the pack, PSA 9 they didnt account for the card being bent and basically marked, otherwise it would've been psa 6 or 7 🗿

Imagine fucking so badly your quality control that even the most important card in your sets is fucked

In the 80s centering was way off especially in sports cards Today with the machines used to make cards, makes absolutely no sense how a card comes fresh out of a pack less than 10. Scams! I feel terrible for people who collect....it's a real shame

The card could have been graded a 5 and it wouldnt have changed its value. The population of the grade is what directs the price.

Grading this card is the most stupid thing to do. Playing it without sleeve is actually the best way to increase its value.

I will say since its been found the lord of the ring set has lost its appeal to me. That chase high was so much fun.

NLG, with wizards printing process it was probably not even good quality.

It doesn’t matter that it’s a 9. It would still be worth the same amount if it was graded a 10.

everyone thinking it should have just been a 10 doesn't know what grading means

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Yea ima go ahead and just say cap to all of this. Yes for a normal card that 100% would be the case, however this isn't a normal card and special rules and limitations need to be made for cards like these. Even if they did stand by their grading process it would make way more sense to simply SHOW why you put it at a 9 instead of just saying it's a 9 and making everyone speculate. At the end of the day, card grading means nothing and it varies way too much to be worth anything significant in its state right now. At the end of the day the value of the card is determined by the buyer not you or the number someone put on it.

I was one of the people that didnt get why it wasnt a 10, and still dont. I get the criteria, its so you can compare your card to a card that is the same, but with a different grade. Of this card, there is only one. So if its 'off centre', for instance, one could also conclude that this is just the way this card is (being the only one) and therefor everything about the card should get a 10. There is only one version, so that version has to be (and will always be) the perfect version of that card.

just resubmit the card a few more times, you will get the 10.

I doubt anybody would question their credibility by giving this specific card and automatic 10 😂😂

Yea, of course the grading process should pass through all these steps (centering, edges, corners, surface), and WotC knows that pretty well, i mean they've printed cards for 30 years, ok? this grading process isn't recent. So if they knew about PSA grading process, which is a fairly standard and broadly known process, why didn't they print (or re-print) the card until it was perfect? come on, it's the 1 of 1, do you have any respect to the QUALITY of your product?

Ligma.

They were just being buttheads, they could have given it a 10. I bet you wouldn't be able to figure out what was the problem with it.

The grade is irrelevant.

so basically yall got fucked by wizards. shouldnt you make sure that the whole printrun is flawless, if you make a special set with having a card only ONCE in the whole set. dont think the guy dropped it or smth.

so idiot magic comany to not print on 10

PSA are a trash grading company

because grading is a scam, next

Yeah PSA is high af its 1 of 1. There cant be any other grade but 10. Its pack fresh mint.

Dude quit slurping PSAs toes.. People have cracked 9s and resubmitted for 10s many times. They have no concrete credibility

Grading is all a sham at the end of the day, should have been a 10. Post probably just didn’t pay them enough money for the 10 since thats literally all it takes.