There have been ups and downs, but most importantly, its been a key developmental time for Magic s most popular format
Its also gotten stricter over time, according to SGC grader Derek Grady, who told Sports Collector Digest in 2019 that In the early days of PSA, cards that were graded an 8 for the most part now if you cracked them out and resubmitted, they would grade lower. Nowadays, PSA uses the half-point system that many other services in the card grading industry also favor, which can be broken down like this: PSA 10 / Gem-Mint (GEM-MT): a virtually perfect card, according to PSAs website
Pick up a playset of four and keep them
Cards seven and eight will be foil uncommons (double- or single-sided)
You can even get sneaky with Brainstorm and hide cards from hand disruption and forced discard effects like Thoughtseize on top of your library, or when youre anticipating a mill effect and need to ditch some unplayable cards
Torment of Hailfire