I'm basically in total agreement with what....everyone else here has said.
I'll take lots of VG-Ex cards over 1 or 2 Nrmt-mt cards anyday.
I would also add that there are a couple of ways in which, aside from price, mid grade cards are objectively superior to high grade ones.
1) You can actually hold them in your hands without freaking out about your breath affecting the molecular structure of the corners (or to whatever extent condition conscious people go with obsessing about such things). I love flipping through cards. If I had a pile of 56 Topps cards in high grade I would be very uncomfortable doing that, but with a bunch of mid grade ones I can go crazy. Great! (behold my flipping through a pile of 54 Bowmans without care:
https://baseballcardsinjapan.blogspo...i-collect.html )
2) The cards actually look like they have a story behind them. When you see a beat up old card, you know that some kid really liked that card back in the day, maybe brought it to school in a back pocket or something, flipped through them with friends, etc etc. Its very compelling! A stack of pack fresh cards in contrast are boring - they've just sat on a shelf somewhere for the entirety of their existence. Nobody ever loved them enough to get them worn out. Its extremely depressing actually.