World-record Gengar restoration case study

A vintage Gengar. CardRevive records this card as its world-record restoration result, and it is one of the before-and-after case files shown on the results page.

The before-and-after images are on file, and you can compare them above. Where a specific grade or a dollar figure is not something we can stand behind for this exact card, we leave it out rather than estimate it. That is the whole point of a proof page: fewer claims, all of them true.

CardRevive's standing policy is assessment-led work: a card is physically assessed, and the proposed service and price are presented for approval before treatment begins. The exact products and steps are trade-confidential and scoped per card, so this page describes the documented outcome rather than a method, and it contains no repair instructions.

The documented outcome is a world-record grading result. Across the bench, most cards CardRevive treats see a one to three point grading lift, with up to six points on record for the exceptional cases.

The grade itself was the grading house's decision. A record result is a high point, not a baseline, and it is not a promise attached to the next card.

Any work on a card is technically alteration. We restore and conserve, we never recolour, and we never sell work as undetectable.

The grade belongs to the grading house. PSA, BGS, PCG, ACE and CGC each apply their own current standards to the physical card and make the final call. No grade is ever guaranteed, and a past result never promises the next one.

Disclosure travels with the card. If you later sell or resubmit it, describing the work honestly to the buyer, marketplace or grading house is your call as the owner. CardRevive keeps private before-and-after records and helps you make that disclosure accurately.