 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Today begins the brand new footballers promo at FIFA 23, and I think there's a reason to be excited. Based off of the loading screen and some of the information and leaks that we have, this promo might be bringing something we have been asking EA to put into FIFA for years. Now, hopefully they execute it and drop really great cards in doing so, but with that coming today, I wanna talk about what to expect on the market with SBCs and of course, are they gonna put anything in packs? That's a big question we have for today because this promo is an SBC and objective based promo from what we know. So we'll talk about that. And of course, it's a big day for live cards. Fantasy foot cards are finally playing games that count for their upgrades and we have live cards being upgraded early today with road to the final upgrades and a draw for the quarterfinal of the UCL happening that will affect player prices. We're gonna talk about that at the start of the video, but if you are excited for the promo today, if you have some excitement for this new footballers promo, hit the thumbs up and if you have not, hit that subscribe button. Let's start by talking about road to the finals and of course, cards getting upgraded today. Now, last week we talked about upgrades happening on the 17th of March, that's the date that EA has put on their website and we are expecting a lot of upgrades today, especially from yesterday's Thursday games, Martial, Chiesa, Diaby, Lamella and Atal are all going to be getting plus ones today along with some of the Champions League cards from earlier on the week, like Raspidory, Barela, Alaba and I'm forgetting one, Calvin Phillips, right? All those guys are gonna be getting plus one upgrades today, but with those upgrades, specifically for a guy like Raspidory and some of these Champions League cards, their prices could go up a little bit after the upgrade, but a lot of people are waiting for this upgrade to sell the card because after today, the next upgrades are not until mid-April because we have a long international break upcoming, we have a time away from Champions League and these other European competitions before we have the next games, like honestly, a month from now. So just be very careful holding onto these cards because their prices could fluctuate from now until then, but some of these upgrades are gonna be taking place today, specifically on this beautiful Diaby SBC, going from an 89 to a 90 rated, gonna hit that 99 pace threshold today. That's very, very exciting. And I'm talking about this first because this should happen early today. The UCL quarter-final draw is actually taking place at 11 a.m. UK time, I believe, today. So it's gonna be early and that's when I expect the upgrades to happen as well. With these cards upgrading, how will their prices move? I'm expecting some of them to go up, but honestly, like we mentioned, and we see so many other times, a lot of people might still be holding onto these cards to sell when the upgrades happen. So for some of these guys that are getting plus ones, if their card's not gonna look that special, with a plus one inform upgrade, like these road to the finals get, then their prices might actually, in turn, drop a little bit because the card, of course, will be invested in a lot and people might want to sell that and take the coin. So be careful of these live cards, again, specifically, because they have such a long time until they upgrade. Again, that's the biggest thing that I wanted to cover first because that is the first thing we are gonna see today in FIFA are those road to the final upgrades. So be careful with those cards. Selling on the hype is usually the play, again, knowing that it's gonna take a long time until they upgrade. Now, the promo at hand today, let's talk about footballers. First of all, we have some information about this promo after the loading screen dropped yesterday, right? Which was kind of a surprise to see Luis Diaz looking like Jurgen Klopp as a dynamic image as one of the cards that I'm guessing we're gonna see today in FIFA, complete play to style objectives. We've been thinking about that. What does that mean? This leak from Footshare kind of describes that. Daily SBCs and objectives is what this promo is all about. Each will be the key to unlock higher versions. So I'm guessing you have to do an initial SBC or an objective to unlock a higher version of the card and you complete, you compete with those cards to get creative upgrades like new traits, stat boosts, and skill moves. Basically, you complete an SBC and you have the opportunity to upgrade the player with a play to style objective. Now, this is why I said in the beginning of the video, this is something people have been asking about in FIFA for forever. I know we had the Future Stars Academy objectives where you get a player and you level them up, but this is still a little bit different where it's a new way where you can play FIFA, get a card, do an SBC or an objective, and then as you play with that card and complete challenges, that player gets upgraded, right? And that is something we have not seen a lot of in FIFA and people have been asking for forever. So this is less of like a buy the card and try to pack it type of promo. This is more of like, here's a card you do an SBC and then you go and take that card to the game and with gameplay and objectives, you upgrade it for dynamic images, for better stats, and for new traits and stuff like that. So that is what is cool about this promo. Now the leak, I guess, or what we already know is gonna be dropped in the game at some point soon is this Luis Diaz, right? Luis Diaz does not have any promo special cards this year. This is his first one. So there's hype around that as well. So I would assume that Luis Diaz might be a part of the game today or this weekend. I would imagine if he's on the loading screen that he's gonna be one of the cards released. Now, of course, we have other leaks. We've seen the Mason mouth. We have new leaks, Dan Juma. We've got Kulusevsky. We've got Junior Furpo. And then, of course, we have two more Oxley Chamberlain, that's an older one, and Aiden McGeady. Now there's one kind of common theme as you look through these leaks, you'll notice it's basically entirely Premier League players besides the Aiden McGeady, but that might just be because of St. Patrick's Day, our yearly Irish or special version of Aiden McGeady. It seems like he gets a special card every single year on St. Patrick's Day. But we are getting a lot of Premier League cards and is this promo going to be an entirely Premier League-based promo? That's a question we're starting to ask because if it is, then that's kind of an L for a lot of people, especially if you don't run a full Premier League side, which I'm sure not everybody watching this video does because we've got so many other great leagues, so many other great players and types of players in FIFA that you need to link in your team other than just one league. So here's my thought on this. Maybe today is a day where they're gonna release a lot of Premier League cards, but then going on throughout this next week of this promo, please, hopefully this is only a one-week promo and not a two-week promo, but hopefully they kind of move on from Premier League, maybe to like the league on, maybe to La Liga, and maybe they're gonna kind of segment the leagues up throughout this week, and if they're gonna do that, we might be getting a lot of cards and a lot of objectives and a lot of SBCs to do. So the more cards, the more SBCs and players we get, that's great if the upgrades are not that hard to attain, if the objectives are not that crazy to do, like if you're telling me to get that upgrade of Luis Diaz standing on the sideline in the dynamic image with the hat on, on the loading screen, if I'm gonna have to play like 30 games and squad battles for that, no way, but you give me like 10 to 15 games and friendlies, something like that, okay, I will do something along those lines, right? So that's where this promo could be a really big W, or it could just be a promo that a lot of people are not super happy with because it's not a pack-based promo and it just would take too much work to get the SBC player or the objective player upgraded to whatever further versions are there. He also goes on further to say, as said, you can only unlock the higher version via objective if you complete the SBC. So that's kind of what it kind of boils down to today. This is a really grindable promo idea and we like it. It's just different and that's what is pretty cool. Now the biggest question we have too is what's gonna be in packs? Because a lot of you guys, myself included, I've started saving some packs, 83 times 10s, other upgrade packs from objective, just random 50K packs, I don't know where that came from, right? 84 times one, 85 times two. So I've started a little bit of a pack save because there's nothing in packs right now. It's not worth it to open. Is EA gonna have something in packs today? I feel like they're going to, guys. I really feel like they're gonna do a best of or some sort of re-release cards back in packs. I just don't think EA can go without doing that because especially if this is gonna be an SBC-based promo, they have to give us some sort of reason to open packs. And if there's no other reason to open packs except to get fodder, people might be skipping out on these SBCs and skipping out on the objectives if the players are too overpriced and if there's no way to get SBC fodder. So I think they're gonna do a best of re-release today. That's just my opinion. We'll talk more about the market here a little bit later. But backing up that opinion is some of the pack code that's been added. Now we've looked at a few of these packs before but just to reinforce and look at some new pack codes, EA have dropped a lot of these store packs, right? The Elite New Year Review Pack. There's a couple New Year Review Packs, a premium New Year Review Pack, and they all guarantee players from previous promos, Winter Wild Cards, Centurions, Team of the Honorable Mention, and Future Stars are all players that are gonna be inside of these store packs. I would imagine all of these packs are untradable, like we talked about yesterday, but these are the types of promos I could see being involved in some sort of mini-release, not mini-release, but re-release of cards and packs today. So just watch out for those, a 10 coin pack. We love it anytime something like this is added in. And if they're gonna add a 10 coin pack, there's gotta be something in packs too, right? So that's why I feel like kind of strongly now that EA is gonna put some sort of cards and packs today. And it also seems like we're gonna be getting foot birthday swaps because this car design is literally called foot birthday swaps. It is in the game, as you just saw when we started the video, it's in the search under the transfer market. So is that coming today, or is that just EA adding this car design into the game early? I'm not entirely sure. That's something yet to be known, but maybe the foot birthday promo is kind of starting early as well with we're starting the swaps program. That is kind of something we'll hopefully learn about today as well. And a couple more packs that were added, an 85 plus mixed campaign pack. This to me sounds like a pretty fun SBC. This is an SBC pack in my opinion. It could be in the store I suppose, but contains one ones to watch out of positions, winter wild cards, team of your honorable mentions, or FF, I guess that's foot fantasy. I mean, that's the promo that just went out of packs guys, and that's a live card promo. 85 plus or higher. Yeah, you could get a ones to watch in this and that seems like an L. I understand the not super fun aspect of this because there's some old promos in there, but that seems like an SBC to me and I think it should be cheaper if it is released and it should be dropped sometime in the next coming days. And then of course, there's a couple more packs, new year review foundations, and then a super loans team pack. So a lot of really interesting packs that have been added to the code as well. Most of them unshakable. Most of them probably gonna be packs released in the store to try to get you to open them, to try to pack some cards from previous promos. So if there are going to be cards re-released in packs today, let's say Winter Wild Cards, Jayden Sancho is released, what's gonna happen? Obviously he's gonna get packed. I would imagine that EA would run some lightning rounds, people would open some saved up packs just because it would give them a reason to open saved up packs and you would see whatever is in packs drop, supply. It would bring those cards to the market and their prices would drop and that's something we would expect today, of course, but something I would also expect to see today would be a mix up of all these different promo cards and like Benzema was in the last re-release that we had or like the team of your auto mentions Harry Kane was in that last re-release and you guys saw what happened when these guys got re-released. These guys' price dropped down a ton because they got supplied more, they're just more of them on the market and they were in packs, right? That happens every time they do a re-release. So that would be the only part of the market that really has some danger of coming for it today is if they do some sort of pack re-release, I think you would see those cards dropping off in value. So just be careful. If you see that release today at 6 p.m. around the content drop time, then maybe take a look at your team, sell a few cards if you have to because those cards being in packs for a week would absolutely drop. Now on the other side of things, as we mentioned, this promo looks like it might be dropping a lot of Premier League cards based off of the leagues at least today. So that has me thinking if you're trying to make some coins on the market today, if this promo drops a set of good cards that people are very interested to go out and do, some of your Premier League cards, specifically Liverpool ones, because we have two Liverpool cards leaked right now. We've got Luis Diaz and Oxlade Chamberlain, especially with the belief that Oxlade Chamberlain and Aiden McGeady would be the cards that would drop today. Aiden McGeady because St. Patrick's and Oxlade Chamberlain, just one of the earliest leaks and leaks that people expect to see in the game today. Watch out for some of your Premier League links, especially on your heroes and especially on some of those club links, right? We know club links are just so important to getting chemistry in this year's FIFA game. This is where I'm gonna be looking to make some coins today. Like let's say they drop a bunch of Premier League players, heroes like this Ledley King or the Crouch or maybe like World Cup Dirt Kite, World Cup Harry Kuhl. Those would be cards you would wanna keep a close eye on because they could go up a bit in price if people are building teams around the brand new cards that they are maybe able to get from SBCs or objectives today. So watch out very closely for that. That's kind of a big part of the promo today is, is it actually gonna be based around Premier League or is that just how the leaks have kind of shaken out so far up until now? Now also, since this is an SBC based promo, we have to talk about SBC fodder and the first thing I wanna draw your attention to is, look at the SBC section right now and notice when a lot of these SBCs are expiring. Couple of these guys, nine days for Dante, 30 for Julian Brandt, brand new play of the month yesterday. Very good to craft over this next month to get an eight in a rated fodder card. But take a look at this. So many of these SBCs, specifically the foot fantasy players since the games start today, are expiring today. DePie, Sergei Dardere, the Gomez. You've got some of the SBCs I've already completed that are not showing up in here, right? Like Rashika, Angel Gomez, Sabitzer, the mixed campaign player pick, the Nick Lima SBC and the 83 times 10. A lot of those SBCs are going away today, which in my opinion means we might actually see some dropping prices on the lower tier side of the market. Specifically with the 83 times 10 and the campaign player pick going away today. If there are cards in packs, people will be opening packs. EA could potentially run some lightning rounds. I do think that would make 82s, 83s, 84s and potentially 85s go down in value a little bit. Now we still have the icon pack that's gonna be out and if we have really good SBC players again, like I mentioned today, there would be a lot of demand for SBCs still, but these type of gamble pack SBCs you guys know have so much demand on this game. So watch out for low tier fodder because it could be a really good investment if it drops down tonight. If you have some of the stuff, I still think with these packs that are going away, it would be a good time to sell. The only reason it would not be a good time to sell fodder on the low tier only would be if there's not a special team in packs today, no cards in packs, then people would have no reason to open packs and why would fodder go down, right? Maybe it would go down a little bit because again, the SBC is expiring but that's just one thing to consider. High tier fodder, I would continue to hold. I would really continue to hold because we have the icon upgrade that is out and at this moment in time, we know when the Mbappe play of the month is going to be coming. It was tweeted officially yesterday by the League One Twitter account and a little video, right? And at the end of the video, it said that on Tuesday the 21st of March is when we are going to be getting the Mbappe player of the month and FIFA Romania is leaking this and saying that it should be around three and a half million coins. Be careful with this guys because never do we ever see leaked SBC requirements. So take this with a pinch of salt. It could be spot on. It also, unless he's got the right information, it could be just the guess. So he also saying it's not gonna require any 90 rated squads, maximum of 89 which you might think Nate, that hurt high rated fodder, not at all. If you take a look at how to complete the cheapest 89 rated squad, you'll actually see that a lot of 90s and 90 ones are included and then you fill out the rest of the squad with like 86s, 85s, 87s to get that rating up to an 89 and it makes the SBC cheaper that way. So I would not sell your high rated fodder with the icon upgrade and with Mbappe coming early next week. There is a lot of demand there and you see more mentions about a foot birthday token system. Foot share of also mentioned, he said by completing a play to style objective, you can also unlock a foot birthday team one pack by March 24th, which March 24th would take us to not this Friday but next Friday. So imagine if we all start next Friday with a foot birthday guaranteed team one pack on the first day of the promo, that will be pretty hyped. That'd be a great way to start off a birthday. So keep an eye out for some sort of foot birthday team one pack today, completable and redeemable in any sort of objectives in this game. So again guys, today's promo, it really comes down to how EA deliver. It really does because if EA drop great players with great stats and a lot of fun players that we could go out and do through objectives and SBCs, that will give people a lot of motivation to go and grind. And if you're somebody who likes to play this game, you're gonna love this sort of grind. If you're somebody who just likes SBCs, likes to try the players out in competitive game modes like rivals and footchamps and stuff like that. I do think today could seem like an L for some people in terms of the quality of the content as well, because it's not pack based. It's not the usual type of promo. It is just different. But we can't complain too much because this is something again, as you think about it as a community, people have always been asking for more grindable content and content that they can just go out and try to get done without having to spend money, to spend real life money on FIFA points or even spend coins sometimes to go get brand new cards to try out for their teams. And this is a promo that does exactly that. So I think you're gonna see a lot of mixed reviews. We're gonna be live streaming this promo when it drops today, Twitch.tv, slash the foot account, link is down below in the description. And Martinelli, of course, with Arsenal losing in penalties yesterday, is down horrendous. Quick tip with this card. He went from 1.2 million coins down to 400. I bought one there. He's had a couple of fluctuations in between now and then. And he's back up to about 440. I do believe this Martinelli card will have another round of panic selling early today on Friday. Watch out for some more panic. He might go down below 400K or in the low 400s. And then that might be his lowest point for a couple of days, especially if there's any Arsenal players dropped in this promo. You might start to see his price go back up. Of course, if we get a really great Luis Diaz, that might make his price go a little bit down. But I'm still very invested with the fantasy foot cards because again, guys, today is the day, especially for a guy like Esauk. These guys are playing today, right? Newcastle legit play today against Nottingham Forest. What should you be doing with these cards? If you wanna hold for the long term for the potential upgrades, then that is a decision you have to decide and you have to make today with this Esauk. I'm gonna be watching the game very closely. I have three of them at 297,000 coins. I'm not making a ton of coins right now. The safe play always is to sell into the hype because if Esauk does not start today or even does not play or if they don't score a goal or if they don't win the game, if he doesn't satisfy any criteria for at least one upgrade today, his player price is definitely going to drop. Same thing for DeMarcos and Taglifico who play today. Just keep a very close eye on these cards as they have risen up a ton in price. My upa Makano said I bought at 700K. That mean we're approaching 800,000 coins now with this card and it seems crazy. But at the same time, people love live cards and the upgrade potential is there for a lot of them. So as we go out throughout the weekend, we're gonna be watching these cards very closely. There's gonna be great opportunities to trade with them, but just like with Rotet of Finals, take the opportunity to sell into the hype and not risk it unless you really, really want to. So that's the video for today. There's a lot going on in FIFA today. Let me know down in the comments what you guys think about this promo. How do you think it's gonna go down today? Are EA gonna make it a W promo or is this just gonna be another week of filler content? Kinda like this showdown promo until we get to foot birthday which sounds like it's gonna be next week. Let me know down in the comments what you think. If you did enjoy it, smash the thumbs up and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nathan Foot Accountant. I'll see you guys in the Twitch stream today. Peace, out.