 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Icon Swaps is what we expected to get and that is exactly what we got. And what we're gonna talk about today is what I think is the best value out of this Icon Swaps set four that is available for 41 days in total. There's two different sets, just like usual, where we have nine tokens available for a couple weeks and some change. And then the rest of the tokens, the second nine will be made available after that. So August 9th to August 30th, the first set of nine tokens. And again, all of what we're gonna talk about today is relative to the timeframe, to the state of the game that we're in right now. It is August, it is almost the middle of August. And I think a lot of people don't just wanna grind to use a card for like one week before if even 22 comes out. So I wanna talk about that today and how I think there's a great balance here that you can find with getting a lot of content at not so much of an insane time grind at this stage of the game. So I wanna put that out there, talk about some of the best value from Icon Swaps 4, how it affected the market. And with the Fuddy's Serie A player pick that was dropped yesterday, how it looks like probably today on Tuesday we will see a Serie A related week and league plus requirement dropping into the objective section. So of course that Fuddy's Serie A player pick dropped yesterday. Everybody was hunting for Ronaldo's. Lukaku was a good pull from that. There was some pretty decent pulls from Summer Stars. Chiesa, Keolini you could have got as well. But I saw a lot of people get Lapidula. I saw a lot of Chiesa's, Donnaruma, stuff like that. So that Serie A player pick was definitely worth the shot of course for the Ronaldo. But it does point again to probably a Serie A week and league coming today. At least the requirements for a week and league plus dropping today. Now also I'm gonna start this off cause we're gonna talk about it in a video later today probably a potential double upload. This is a huge day for FIFA 22, massive, massive day. Today at 4 p.m. UK 11 a.m. Eastern the ultimate team official trailer is gonna be dropped. And also with that probably pitch notes. There's gonna be a ton of stuff to digest from this video and from the pitch notes that they do release because if you remember the gameplay video the pitch notes that went along with that were massive. So I expect to learn a lot today about preview packs in FIFA 22. I expect to learn about maybe some of the new content they're gonna be bringing. I'm really excited for this new icons, new heroes. They just finished announcing all of the heroes officially on Twitter yesterday. So they'll probably have some sort of information on when those heroes are gonna be in packs and icons, new icons. Basically changes to the week and league, changes to division rivals. It's gonna be a huge day with a lot of information and process. So I also wanna get your minds ready for that. We'll be covering that later on the channel today I do believe. But first at hand is icon swaps set number four. And I wanna take a look at, you know, how EA Sports slightly disappointed yesterday but also gave us some avenues for some really, really cool packs. Packs that we have never seen in this game before if you wanna take the time and grind for them. I love these packs at the front. I love the times 25, especially with fodder at this point in the game. So many footage SBCs are coming out. Icon moments SBCs like the 99 Pele that they released yesterday. We have to talk about that as well. This is gonna help big time. And with tons of special cards and packs, it would just be an absolute crazy time to open some of these up, especially on Friday which is when I plan to hold these. But moments Kaka for four swaps. I'm a fan of that five star skill, absolute legend. I like that for four swap tokens. Now this is the first thing I wanna talk about. 92 plus icon moments player pick. What you really have to look at with a lot of these player picks and how many tokens they cost is how many options that are in the player pick. The 92 plus moments player pick, five options. That might not be a terrible pick. Not my first one, but five different options means you have a ton of items that will pop up in front of you for only five swap tokens. Baby Eusebio at six is absurd. I don't know why we have a baby card that has been out in this game for 11 months. In the menus right now as a grindable card, you can get through gameplay, no thanks. That should have been, I know Baby Eusebio is kind of a very hyped card from last year, but I think that should have been a primer moments Eusebio in my opinion. 94 plus attacker, midfielder pack, just a pack, one player. 93 plus attacker, one of five player picks. So it's just attackers, 93 plus one of five. Most of these icon player picks are decent. There's a couple of them that stand out though. So for me, the first one, the 92 plus icon moments player pick stands out for the value. Five choices, 92 plus five swap tokens. It's all that it takes. These two right here, the attacker midfielder pack, it's decent, but it's only one player. It's not a pick. Pelé and Maradona, it is what it is. They both have SBCs out now for higher versions. 94 primer moments player pick, that's decent. 95 icon moments pack. I like this one. I like this one because it is a part of the basically best value grind in my opinion. You're getting a guaranteed 95 rated icon, which if you don't get Yashin, Pushkas or Garencha, you're guaranteed a card that is basically over a million coins. Those are the only, these are the only cards. I think there's like, what is this like? Eight, nine, I can't even count them, but there's so few cards that are available through this pack. Pelé, R9, Maradona, Zedan, Cruyff, Ronaldinho, Garencha. There's big name players. If you don't hit Yashin, maybe Maldini, if you don't want to set her back. Even Garencha, if you don't hit him, that's five star skill though. You're getting a really, really good card out of this pack. Now the only caveat to this is, we've had a lot of SBCs for these players. Maradona, of course the prime version of Pushkas was in the last swaps, I believe. But Maradona, you've had an SBC for Pelé now, Cruyff, Yashin, Ronaldinho, Garencha. So if you've done a lot of those icon moments SBCs, this pack might not be a good choice for you because you could very well get a dupe. So just kind of putting that out there to be careful with that. But I think for 12 tokens, my best value option out of all these swaps is to do the one, two, three, and then from there, kind of figure out what you want to do, right? And I'm gonna be doing these first three packs, saving them for Friday, with batch number three being out, with Nine Line Ronaldo, Nine Line Messi, Nine Line Neymar, Summer Stars, PTG's, in packs again. I'm gonna be doing these, saving them for Friday. And then from there where you kind of go, it's kind of up to you. That's what I think though, the 12 swaps from this and the six swaps that would cost you from here would probably be your best match for a total of 18. Now you could maybe throw in the five swap 92 plus player pick if you didn't wanna grind all the way to 12. I just like how this is guaranteed to be a really insane icon out of that 95 plus. If you want moments Maldini, of course, you could take a chance and go to 15 swaps to get him. 94 plus icon moments player pick with one of five options. That could be a pretty insane player pick as well, since there's not that many cards that are 94 plus. And then, of course, Zidane being available with 17 swap tokens. The only people going for Zidane are probably ones that have won this card in their end game team this entire year. And if they haven't got them already, this is a way to get them on tradeable. So for me, I just don't wanna spend that much time playing the game and playing squad battles in August for rewards and for cards. That if I pack something sick, I'm probably gonna only be able to use it for the next literally like three weeks. And that's it. So I'm not really gonna go super hard on swaps. That's why I'm going with the fodder packs. Again, I feel like almost every single time this year since they've introduced the fodder packs, that has kind of been the way to go with some of these icon swaps. Again, in my opinion, icon swaps has been super duper underwhelming this year. It's only been the last two. Icon swaps three and icon swaps four now that have had some decent rewards in them for the timeframe and where we at on FIFA. And still, I think that icon swaps three and four were a bit behind the curve, but it makes sense because usually gameplay objective rewards are a bit behind SBCs and where the market is. Of course, there was a lot of price drops on those icons that were in swaps. Kakam was 600K, he dropped down to 400,000, rose back up now to about 470,000 coins. This Maradona was not really down that much and he's actually kind of at a low price at the moment. I'm trying to find one maybe around a mil. Think he could bounce back up a little bit. Yusebio was down to the 500s, he's back up 100,000 coins. So a very nice fluctuation on some of those icons as we usually see, whether they get an SBC or whether they get into swaps. You usually see some panic selling and then a little bit of a rebound. Because again, if somebody who is wanting to go after that moment's Zodan card, they're not gonna be able to attain that item until it'd be the first week of September. First week of September is how long it's gonna take before the next set of swap tokens are released to get this Zodan. So again, it's an open book, right? However much you wanna grind, you've got a lot of opportunities with these insane icon moments upgrade packs and of course the fodder packs as well, which are probably gonna be pretty cracked on Friday for those new batch three cards that will be in packs. So that is the, in my opinion, all that there is to talk about icon swap set four. I guess the only other issue is they could have made these a little easier. The icon swaps like win four games, assistant 10 separate rivals are friendly matches. I mean, I'm gonna be doing these six probably right here. I'm only gonna be doing these six swaps to get my packs and then I'm out. So that's all that I have to do. Play some rivals, week in league. Maybe if it's not too bad of an issue, maybe I'll do some of these golden goal ones, but I hear that some people are not doing golden goal. I've already started on some of the squad medals games for air to busy silvers. But that's kind of where I'm going with the icon swaps for content. Now let's fast forward it into today. Again, well actually first before we do that, let's take a look at Pelé because I know Pelé is a huge SBC. I don't know why they didn't drop it on Sunday, 29 squads. I know some people are really going to want to go after this card, 390 rated squads. Again, I'm sitting here scratching my head because EA Sports, you said that there is potential for icon requirements in these icon SBCs this year and we never have seen, we never saw one. Unless you're gonna drop one like in the next two weeks or so with an R9 SBC, you're gonna require an icon. We have not seen icon requirements this year, even though you left the book open to that being a possibility if you have a 21. Just put icons in, require icons for these squads and maybe cut off some of the squads. 29 squads is so many for Pelé. I mean, if you take a look on the squad building section, let's go to icons here. I wanna show you how much I think this Pelé is because it's not registering on a foot bin, but if you have Root Holder who has 25 sections at 2.3 million coins and with 29 sections on Pelé with more higher rated squads, I think this is coming out at around three mil. I really think that it is, which, yes, is technically a nice undercut under the 4.8 mil price range that he is, but the only reason why it's that cheap is because still you have 90 rated cards on this game with all the Tots cards that are in packs right now for 18K. 18,000 coins is how much some of these 90 rated cards are, which is making it the cheapest 90 rated squads of all time in this game. I mean, during earlier parts of the year, 90 rated cards are like 60K. Look at Allison, right? During the second half of the year, 40, 50, 60,000 coins, even 80K during the huge influx of the Moments SBCs or the mid icon upgrade pack that was released in March, the player pick went up to 111,000 coins. So it just goes to show how the packs apply right now is making all that fodder so, so cheap except for the low tier fodder with the rares and stuff, which we've talked about. But still, I think that's just too much at this stage of the game. I think that should be, all these icon SBCs should be cheaper, but especially that play is just very, very, very expensive. So again, rolling into Tuesday, of course, with the FIFA 22 news on tap, of course, with the footies player pick that we saw yesterday for a Syria specific reward. I think that today on Tuesday, we will see Syria specific week and week plus requirements. That didn't affect the market too much. A lot of Syria cards, as we talked about on last night's video, were getting invested in. You saw a lot of these cards that were in summer stars like Spinazola, like Locatelli, items that people, of course, would think, hey, people are gonna buy these up for their week and week teams. These cards are already kind of starting to go up. So we didn't have any crazy price rises yesterday in terms of Syria cards. Insignia's up like 10K, tail Hernandez is up like 10 to 15,000 coins. But across the market in general, I didn't see a ton of prices just absolutely boom up. Keelani is up, Kiesa is up, but they didn't go crazy, right? Because people kind of expected this, they invested for it, and that's why you didn't see prices go up a lot. Now today when the actual objectives do get released, yeah, you might see some of these cards jump up in price a little bit. It'll all, 90K, I don't mind if I do. All right, nevermind. But you might see a little bit of a jump up like right away when the objective is released today if that is the case. Just because people will go out and buy some cards for their clubs to kind of fill in those requirements and get ready for the weekend league if they do plan to play with those requirements. So that's one thing to kind of watch out for is that objective coming today. Now I also don't entirely know what to expect today. On Tuesday, it's been 86 plus upgrade. That player pick, the 86 plus player pick has dropped like for the past two or three Tuesdays. You can see it here. I guess that could re-up itself today. I feel like though right now what everybody's concerned about is icon swaps, getting their tokens, getting this on a roll, getting moving with it. This is also helping me finish a tall in the Adama milestones that I haven't exactly finished yet. So I think people are gonna be just doing swaps and grinding gameplay this week. Now also the 82 plus player pick for me, I did a few of those yesterday on stream. I know that I kind of misjudged the value of this. The first one I got a walkout, team of the season and Dombley duplicate from which I was very happy with. After that though, it kind of went sour. I'm sticking to the gold upgrades and doing 85 times 10. Even though these do seem to be a little bit nerfed. Again, if you wanna save some more packs for Friday in batch three, I feel like this 85 times 10 is definitely the way to go. Crafting it with gold upgrade packs, getting, buying non-rares and putting those non-rares into the upgrade packs and then you'll fill your club up with rares and some higher rated cards to finish the 85 times 10. So that's, again, just kind of the grind that is happening right now in this game of FIFA. A lot of the rest of the market's just kind of chilling. But again, I'll give you guys another heads up. If you have any of these cards in your teams, these guys should be coming back into packs on Friday. You can see that Neymar is down to 3.3 mil. I literally think that all these cards are gonna nose dive because Friday is gonna be a huge, huge day of supply both with tradable and untradable packs with batch three. People have been saving packs and not opening for the past couple of weeks because they know that the batch three cards that are coming are gonna be insane and they wanna save their packs to get some of these insane summer stars items that we had during the Euros. And then also you think about all the 85 times 10s that are gonna be saved. You think about all of the swaps packs that people are gonna do this week. People are gonna have tons of fodder and tons of packs available for Friday. So that means any SBCs that come out after Friday, they wanna drop a Renato Sanchez perfect timing EA sports to do that because people are gonna have tons of fodder after opening their safe pack. So that's just kind of prefacing what could happen later on in the week. Maybe a player SBC today, potentially. Of course, people are asking about more Syria player SBCs. That would probably be the focus of today on Tuesday if there is a player SBC, something to do with the Syria. Now also, I didn't mention this, but we had a vote. We had a vote yesterday for a SBC that will come on Wednesday for Quadrado versus Pedro. I think Quadrado is handily gonna win this vote. I mean, you take a look at this guy, five stars to go right back. Especially, like this is the right back that you're gonna use in the Syria with the P-Monty Calcio, AKA Juventus Lynx. He's already got a 91 rated team of the season card. This new one that comes out, it's probably gonna have 99 pace. If they give him a week foot upgrade, that'd be fantastic. And this card's gonna be incredible, right? He's gonna be incredible. I think he wins the vote. And you're gonna have a lot of people that wanna use that Quadrado as he's already. This guy was a very popular right back for pros earlier in the year with his Man of the Match card with his, I think rule breakers item. I think he had a rule breakers card, right? It was at 84 rated. Whatever one of these were, I thought he had a rule breakers and then an inform maybe, but I remember this 86 Man of the Match being a card that a lot of people liked to use earlier on this year in FIFA. Or sorry, yeah, 84, yeah. There's an 84 inform, the rule breakers, and then the 86 is a Man of the Match, I believe. So he's been a very popular card this entire year. I think that he's gonna win the vote and we'll see his SBC on Wednesday, when hopefully they don't cancel it because they're not adding traits this time through this SBC. So grind squad battles, grind those icon swaps games if that's what you're going after right now. And just continue to keep an eye on the market, man. It's just whenever there's icon swaps and stuff like this out in the game, it seems like some of the market hype just kind of dies off a little bit and some prices actually fall because of it because people are more worried about grinding the games, grinding the objectives and getting those cards in their club more than about the stuff that is actually happening on the market, buying players, selling players, and stuff like that. So that's kind of the thing today. Watch out for a FIFA 22 related video coming later today. I'm gonna try to get one of those up because there's gonna be a lot of stuff to kind of digest and talk through today with FIFA 22 related information coming out. So that's the video for today, boys. If you did enjoy it, smash the thumbs up on it. Comment down below what you're gonna be taking from icon swaps and your opinions on that content yesterday. And of course, subscribe to the channel if you're new. It's been Nathan Photocount, and I will catch you guys later. Peace out.