Brass Squire Brass Squire isnt as good as alternatives like Puresteel Paladin for Modern Hammertime decks centered around Colossus Hammer, but its a cheaper card to pick up
These are the bearing walls
Arceus has literally everything: generic energy requirements, high HP, an attack that can be used in your second turn and that accelerates energies, and an astonishing V-Star ability that allows the player to search for any combination of two cards at any point
Adding Scry can help you find more ways to gain life too, to keep the party going
And for finding people to play with, I highly recommend joining the Tricky Gym Discord (you can find link in Gym Leader Challenge website) where people interested in the format are playing games pretty much around the clock
If the scratches are just on the holo part, that may cost you 1, 2 or 3 grade points