Nemeses is one of the coolest concepts Topps ever put on a Jordan insert: a two-sided card pitting arch rivals against each other, with Michael Jordan on one face and his Detroit nemesis Joe Dumars on the other. It comes from 1995–96 Topps Stadium Club Series 1, card N10 of a 10-card set, seeded roughly one in every 18 packs. Both sides are silver-and-blue etched foil with full-color action cut-outs — the featured player in the foreground, his nemesis looking on from behind — and the ‘Nemeses’ logo runs across the top in gold etched foil.

That metallic, reflective surface is exactly what gives the card its shine in hand, the kind that a flat scan flattens out. Each side commemorates a moment when one man got the better of the other: Jordan’s side, ‘One For Mike,’ recalls November 11, 1992, when he drained a 30-foot buzzer-beater in overtime as part of a 37-point night to shock Detroit; Dumars’ side answers with ‘One For Joe’ and the 1992–93 head-to-head numbers. It captures the Bulls–Pistons ‘Bad Boys’ rivalry that defined Jordan’s rise perfectly. The etched-foil surface is condition-sensitive, and the card was never graded in great numbers — only 298 copies across all grades, of which just 11 are PSA 10, a 3.69 percent gem rate.