Causes: shuffling without sleeves, dropping cards, friction in tight binder pockets
For reasons likely to do with the weight of packs (the texture and extra ink of an ultra rare can make packs weigh a few micrograms more, making it easy for nefarious sorts to otherwise filter out the better packs), for a few years Pokmon card packs have come with code cards (cards that have a QR code for the online version of the game) with borders or colors indicative of the quality of the cards within
Vintage Challenge 6/27 The second Challenge of the weekend was the early morning Sunday event
I would change this card out
If you can play down a Path before that, this limits their abilities and can slow them down significantly, especially against the Path to the Peak variants who usually only play Path
Each card showcases popular Pokmon characters and artwork, including Pikachu, Charizard, and Ash, rendered in an eye-catching golden design