The eight Pikachu I’m still missing to complete my Pikachu sub-collection.
Couldn’t care less if they’re torn in half and put back together with tape tbh. Although I’m pretty sure even those HP copies would still be at least 25k in this market (for the five Japanese Pikachu I’m missing I mean)..
But apart from that, there have been some cards in the past I loved the artworks of and I’ve bought immediately after I first saw them. But most of them weren’t too expensive as NM card (at the time). I don’t buy cards like that outside of my collection goals too often, but some that come to mind for which this happened: