Special Forces is one of the best-looking mid-’90s Jordan inserts, and it is genuinely stunning in hand — the kind of card a scan can’t do justice. It comes from 1996–97 Topps Stadium Club Series 1 as card SF4 of a 10-card, retail-only insert set, seeded about one in every 20 packs. The design pairs a full-bleed action shot of Jordan rising for a dunk with a background of overlapping multi-colored stars, the whole front printed with Topps’ ‘Electra-Etch’ foil technology — an etched-foil treatment that throws shifting, prismatic color as the card tilts, which is exactly the shine you noticed. The back keeps the military theme (‘Jordan’s Special Forces’) with a tongue-in-cheek scouting report: more hang time than most NFL punters, more ways to score than anyone in the game, airtight fundamentals, peerless persona.