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A miscut is a card or printed collectible that has been cut so far off-centre during production that part of an adjacent card or sheet is visible on the finished piece. Miscuts originate at the cutting stage of the printing run, when the sheet of cards is sliced into individual pieces. Most miscuts are condition defects that depress grade and value, but a small number become sought-after collectibles in their own right — particularly when the visible adjacent card is recognisable, when the miscut is dramatic enough to be unambiguous, or when it appears on a key card from a known printing-error window. Major grading services flag miscuts on their slab labels and grade them on a separate scale, since the standard centring criterion does not apply.

The term is used identically across sports cards, trading card games and modern non-sport issues. The borderline between a miscut, a normal off-centre card and a true error is set by the grading services and varies slightly between PSA, BGS and CGC.


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