Titanium is one of the most visually radical Jordan inserts ever produced, and it has to be held to be understood. It comes from 1997–98 Metal Universe, the celestial, design-obsessed brand run by Fleer’s SkyBox division, and it breaks almost every convention of what a card looks like. Rather than printing on standard cardstock, Titanium is struck on clear acetate — the card is see-through, so Jordan’s image and the patterned blue-and-green foil ‘TITANIUM’ lettering read from both the front and the back. It is also die-cut, so it isn’t a rectangle at all: the design is shaped, with an oval window and angular foil elements cut into the stock, an outline unlike any ordinary card. It was a true chase piece — a 20-card, hobby-only insert pulled roughly one in every seventy-two packs, and among the most valuable cards in the entire Metal Universe product.

This is the Jordan, numbered ‘1 of 20’ on the reverse. The reason a PSA 10 is so difficult is the acetate itself: transparent stock of this era is prone to yellowing and clouding over time, and the foil and die-cut edges show the slightest handling, so a copy that has stayed water-clear and crisp is genuinely rare. Of 245 graded across all grades, only 27 have earned a PSA 10 — an 11.02 percent gem rate — and an example this clean stands out even among those.