Why don't hand cut cards receive MC qualifiers?

JHS5120

Say a hand cut card is missing the border on the left edge, but has extra cardboard on the right edge, shouldn't it receive a numeric grade with MC qualifier rather than PSA Authentic?

LarkinCollector

No. PSA hand cut guidelines:
In order for PSA to actually assign a grade to any of the cards that possess visible/defined borders on all four sides, evidence of that border must be present or the card must exhibit virtually-full borders based on the design of the specific issue.

Only cards that left the factory miscut will receive a MC qualifier.

JHS5120

I understand they don't, but do we know the general reasoning behind it? As long as the card meets the size requirements, what's the difference between a miscut hand cut card and a miscut factory cut card?

LarkinCollector

It might inspire people to do crazy things, like cut a Ruth strip card down the middle with half each of adjacent players and get numerical MCs both labeled as Ruth.