 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA the PhotoCount, and welcome back to the channel. We have Trailblazers Team 2 today, an FC24 Ultimate Team. We already know the League team. We're going to look through that because we now have some official stats. But I'm hoping that one specific part of content today can bring the hype from about here all the way to here. And I'm hoping that EA price and SBC in a really good spot to make that. So today we're going to talk a lot about the market today and what to expect with content in the store and everything going on right now in FC24. If you're excited for the video, drop a thumbs up on it. Subscribe if you're new. Let's really quickly look at content yesterday. There was a surprise. Evolutions, guys. All right. Now we know that evolutions are not always dropping on Wednesdays. EA is going to mix it up because we had two brand new evolutions yesterday. Finally, the Trailblazer Interceptor and Slide Tackler evolutions that are all about just as this promo is. Adding play style pluses to cards. Now, 75,000 coins is a steep cost for an upgrade to a card that, I guess, I don't think is good enough, guys. I think this 75,000 coin one is too expensive. There are some decent options for cards you can put in here. But especially as I look at my club, I just don't know if I'm about it. 75,000 coins, that's halfway done with the Declan Rice SBC. If I need to send a defensive mid, that's a card that I want right now instead of one of these personally. But maybe that's something you grind over time. It's not terrible. It's just a bit heftier price. Now, the Trailblazer Slide Tackler, this is the one that a lot of people are doing because it's, of course, free. And there are some nice cards that you can get from this EVO, one of which is in my club, Ben Sabini. I think this is one of my favorite choices from here. Medium-high work rates. He's got the four-star week, but... And he's also got three play styles, of course. The whole point of this evolution is to get the Slide Tackle Plus. He's got Block and Aerial as well. I know that's got a center-back position on the card as well. Tierney looks good. Guys, we just did a video on the second channel. If you want to check that out, I'll leave a link at the end of the video where you can go check out some of our reaction to the Trailblazer evolutions that were dropped yesterday. And a lot of people, I think, like this Slide Tackler one because it is free. I think the very common sentiment is that the interceptor is just too expensive. Now, there are a couple cards in here, and I want to point something out, actually, on foot.gg, especially in some of these other websites that we're looking at, to see what are the best cards to put into these evolutions. As you can see here, it'll make you seem that this Al-Sharani is going to be 84 rated if you put his 71 rated into the Trailblazer Slide Tackler. But that's actually not the case, because you have to put him into the Bruiser wingback first. Then you can put him into the Trailblazer Slide Tackler. So make sure when you're looking through these websites that show the progression and the upgraded EVO cards before when you're trying to choose who you want to do, make sure you're just looking at the correct EVO. I'm sure a lot of us don't have Bruiser wingback and Trailblazer open, or some of these show welcome to evolutions into the Bruiser wingback. And we've had an evolution that first one, the welcome evolution done for a long time. So, yeah, again, I just think the Trailblazer one's a bit too expensive. There are some nice cards in here. A lot of people are looking at Gallagher. Rovella is another very popular one. Dominguez is a very popular one. But again, it shows you an 86 rated Dominguez card. A lot of us have already done the welcome evolution. So it's really going to be an 85 rated Dominguez, which does look pretty good. Really, I think the issue with this Trailblazer Interceptor one and the reason why a lot of people are doing it is evos are fun. And I totally get that. And that's a good part of content this year. There's a little bit of FOMO as well. I think there's just, if you think about, hey, if I don't do this 75,000 coin evolution, am I going to miss out on a potential further evolution? Later on down the line, where I'll be able to evo that next card. And then I'll really be missing out on wishing I did it. There's a little bit of that going on in there. So just kind of treat it like we do with SBCs, guys. If you can trade 75,000 coins and make that amount of profit in the next couple of days or in the next week before you start that evolution and kind of like trade your way to it, that's a really, really good way to think of it, right? If you need 75K, work your way up in coins and then use that coins on that evolution, if that's what you really want to do. But just be careful. Like we are with SBCs, it is coins that you're turning into something that's going to turn in untradable. So that was all of content yesterday, really. We did have marquee matchups, which was nothing insane. But of course, it did supply the market with some supply and we saw prices dip and really the market worked out incredible yesterday to be making some coins, guys. We'll talk quickly just about the market before we get into today's content. 89s, we talked about these at length in last night's YouTube video and on stream. There was the two windows that we thought were going to happen. They both happened. Ter Stegen went from 40K all the way to 44. Went back down, he was actually 40,000 coins right here at this moment as well. And then is now back up at 44,000 coins as there is so much SBC demand right now in this game. 87 and above rated fodder did amazing things yesterday. Guys, fodder was so good to trade with on the bids with the fluctuations. If you timed it here, timed it here, sold here again, especially on those 88s and 89s, there were some absolutely incredible deals to be had and some great trades to be had. And we have to remember this, right? Because there's still a lot of great SBCs that people are probably wanting to keep completing. Myself included, I only had enough fodder to get Shunman's son finally done. I would like to do Blanc still. I would like to do Declan Rice still. And I'm really counting on rewards and coins that I maybe make from this weekend's weekend league to do more of these SBCs. So fodder is a big part of the weekend as well. And there might be an opportunity for us to invest in it today. We will talk about that for sure. But let's talk about the promo that is at hand today. And that is Trailblazers Team 2. Maybe you saw the loading screen. We'll just go into it really quick. It's nothing that we didn't know, right? We've had the leaks now for like a crazy long time. And I do believe on the loading screen we've deciphered who the three players are. Over on the left, if it's gonna show it to me, it's not gonna show it to me. Yeah, we're just gonna log right in. On the left, I think it is Sophie Smith. The loading screen is Sophie Smith, Ronaldo, and James Ward-Prowse, which matches up perfectly with the leaks that we have had since Monday. Ronaldo, Son, Sophie Smith, Harry Kane, Raphael Liao, this is a good promo team. Like this is better than some of the promo teams that we had. I looked back at Rule Breakers Team 1 last year. The Ronaldo was also in. The rest of that promo team, not good. This is definitely better than that was last year. Just put an end in perspective. I think it's maybe a slight step down from last week. But really, what I think it comes down to today, guys, is that there's not a lot of hype for this team because we've known it for a long time. If this promo team came out and we had zero leaks, there would be like, wow, this is a nice promo team, right? But we're coming off of a really, really nice promo team from Team 1, with a lot of insane players in there, a lot of expensive cards as well, with big upgrades, which is why I think this one just seems a little bit more lackluster. Also for this team today, I don't know how many of you guys are saving packs. Maybe you dropped down below in the comments if you're saving any packs right now. But I ain't got one pack saved, man. Last week, we were saving our marquee matchups. We were saving our rivals' rewards. We were saving everything for the Trailblazers Team 1. And I think this week, nobody's really saving anything because we're all trying to do SBCs. And that really is where I think EA has an opportunity this week with this team. I remember Road to the Knockouts Team 1, right? It was difficult to pack these cards. They were very expensive, they were very rare. Road to the Knockouts 2 came out. Remember what happened with these guys? Everybody was packing mud, Rich. DeMaria was dirt cheap. All of these cards were so packable and it was fun because they were cheap. And it was a great time to open packs and it really made this weekend of content really fun because those cards were all super cheap and they were boosted nice with big upgrades. I'm hoping that EA do that with this team today to keep the hype going. I don't expect it though because there's a lot of big names in here. They're not gonna make Aronaldo, Cancelo, Rafael Leao, Robertson, Kubo, Marquinhos. I don't think they're gonna make all this team cheap today. Guys, I don't think they're gonna do the exact same thing that they did with Road to the Knockouts Team 2. But that's just something to kind of point out to you guys. If they decide to do it, today could really, the market could shake up a lot if these cards end up being really cheap. But I don't see that happening because there's not as many saved up packs. So the only way they would do that is by increasing the pack weight a lot in the store and also releasing a lot of packs in the store. I would definitely expect to see 50K and 100K packs. And there were some other, like some season opener packs, not this one, but a different one that were added to the code earlier on in the week that actually gave out an extra pack inside of the pack. And if we see that today, that would be a lot of supply. Whenever they do kind of a two-for-one deal, not quite two-for-one, but you open this pack, you get an extra pack inside of it, that brings a lot of supply to the market. And if they do that today, we're gonna have to adjust accordingly. But I do think that EA is gonna try to have to sell some packs today because a lot of people don't have saved up packs. So maybe they have something up their sleeve, but I'm not expecting these cards to be super crazy supplied. Now the real way I think that they can get some hype going on this game today is by the SBC, which it is leaked that we are getting a pretty big name player today. And I believe that is going to be Julian Alvarez. Both of these Julian Alvarez and Javi Simon's cards, shout out to Rick on Twitter. These are supposedly official stats, official playstyle pluses on these cards. Javi Simon's and Alvarez both look really good. I mean, I did the Alvarez EVO card. He has insane dribbling. The relentless playstyle plus, I think is a little underwhelming for a card like him. So that doesn't give me the good vibe straight off the bat. But Julian Alvarez is such a big name player that a lot of people want to have via an SBC, especially a Premier League striker, a Manchester City player, Argentinian. There's going to be hype for this regardless. I think EA is going to overpriced it today guys, because PremTax, CityTax, I don't know. You can come up with all the reasons. I think EA is going to overpriced it today, but there still might be some hype in general for that card. And yes, I am assuming that Alvarez is today because usually the big ticket player is dropped on a Friday. Remember last week we had the big SBC for Rodrigo. I don't think it's going to be anywhere near close to the same amount of hype that we had for Rodrigo last week, because last week we had an SBC to go and do after so many people were opening safe packs to use up all their fodder, right? And that SBC was great. It wasn't that expensive at the time until fodder really started to take off. But now fodder is expensive. And we did see a cheap blank earlier in the week with fodder being expensive. Could EA go for two for two and do that again? They could, but I'm not expecting them to do so. Regardless, keep an eye. As I look at a couple of these Manchester City players here, we're still at such an early point in the game. There's not a lot of links to this Alvarez card. Ruben Diaz is a card that really has started to go up in the past couple of hours. He's been between 115 and 120 after Julian Alvarez was leaked. He started to go towards 130K being one of the only special center backs in the Premier League. If you can find this card at like 115,000 coins, I still think he has potential to rise after the content dropped today because of the links that he has to Alvarez, the good playstyle plus that he has and just that he's probably pretty rare. So watch some of those Argentinian links, some of those Premier League heroes maybe, and also your Manchester City cards for a rise as some people will maybe be doing Alvarez straight away today because of the hype there. And then Javi Simons, keep an eye on Bundesliga cards. I'm gonna be watching those cards because this could be an SBC that we see maybe on the weekend, tomorrow on Saturday, maybe on Sunday, and that's something to watch out for there too because that card, like that Javi Simons looks like an SBC that could be 100 or 150K and be a card that a lot of people wanna do with 90 pace, the technical dribbler plus, like that playstyle plus is really, really good with the dribbling stats like he could play in the midfield with 66 defending as well. That looks like an awesome card. So I think that one might shake up the market a bit as EA looked like they might be pushing out some Bundesliga love on this game this weekend. So definitely we'll be keeping an eye out for that one. Now also we do believe that Palacios is gonna be our objective card today and the leaks for his card don't actually look that good. So I'm a little bit worried about that objective. If you have Hinkapay or if you have Grimaldo, it might be smart to sell into the hype. That would be the safe play if you wanted to go ahead and do that. And also I forgot to show you guys a bit of information. This is official stats for the Ronaldo that is coming in packs today. And I wanna talk about this really quick before we move on to the market. This is the official Ronaldo card. So this gives me a little bit of hope that they might be juicing some of the promo team today. I don't think all the cards are gonna be that juiced. But this Ronaldo, like that's plus eight pace, that's a decent shooting boost, dribbling boost for him as well, 88 rated. So I have a little bit of hope today for the Ronaldo and let me find it here really quick. I do believe we have some other stats for cards that are gonna be coming out today. Yes, this is from Rick once again on Twitter. He is showing that Hyunmin's son has the rapid play style plus and the stats are very similar to his player of the month, which does have the finesse, which I'm very glad now seeing that it's rapid. Not that rapid is bad. Rapid actually could be really good for Hyunmin's son. But for the player of the month crafting that, I spent 400K out of pocket. This card I think is gonna be over a million coins today. Sophia Smith, she has the relentless plus as well. So the same, that's the battery, right? That's the one that Jude Bellingham has on his base gold card. Where is Jude? I'm sure Jude is on here somewhere. That is the battery, right? That's relentless play style plus, which I do believe is a stamina. I think that's a stamina play style plus. I think a lot of people see that one as maybe not the most exciting and the most hyped, but Ronaldo does have Trivella. So that's gonna be interesting to see how his Trivella shots are with how his card is formatted in game. I think Ronaldo's gonna be like 500K today by the way, because it's gonna be a day where he, Ronaldo might be a top three most hyped card in the promo team. I know that his gold card is dirt cheap and a lot cheaper than we thought it was gonna be originally. And Ronaldo could be a lot cheaper than 500K today. You might be like, Nate, dude, 500K? Well, he is getting a pretty big pace boost from 77 to 85 plus four dribbling overall. And he doesn't have that great of curve. I don't know. I'm super interested to see the Ronaldo card today. And I think Saudi links would be something to watch too because Ronaldo might be one of the more affordable cards today that a lot of people would wanna try out. So speaking of the market today, we're definitely gonna keep an eye on the brand new promo cards as they drop on the market if they are rare. Remember how these cards last week fared? They were pretty rare as well. And they did not get cheap in the first hour and then rebound. They got cheap after like an hour and a half or two hours and then started to go up as they got rare and they kinda had that second or third hour rise as people were going and playing footchamps and we can leave. If the cards that drop today are rare and they're not very supplied, that's the same thing that's gonna happen. Now, if they are like road to the knockouts team two and they're super supplied, remember what happened with RTTK team two? We had guys like the Joao Pedro who were super duper cheap, like 200,285 or whatever he was. And then he went up like 100,000 coins in that first hour. So I think that would only happen today if these new cards come out and they're really, really cheap, which I don't expect to see happening. But we'll just kinda play that by ear. We'll be watching that on the Twitch stream today. But if content is just the Julian Alvarez and he's a bit overpriced, then I think today might actually be a day where prices on the market just continue to go higher. And I would say if you're gonna try to trade today on this game, watch these Trailblazer cards as they go out of packs. I think some of them do have potential to rise further, namely Rubin DS, Kunde. I know we have other centerbacks coming today, but his card is insanely rare. Griezmann could keep going up. Mikotarian, Dela Renzo, Rubin DS, Metoma have got my eye on. And then of course, make sure you club stock all these, one of each of all these discard guys, like 11K and others for as many of them as you can. So definitely keep an eye on those. Those could rise today as those are the next most newest promo cards. And then keep a close eye on road to the knockouts as well. They just keep rising. And if content today is not good, people are still gonna be holding onto these cards, maybe buying some of them because they are due in line for upgrades coming this next week. And these prices will be something that we watch a lot over the weekend because they're starting to creep up and up and up. And it's getting a bit sketchy how high they're getting. Probably gonna be a time where we look to sell early next week. But for now, they should just keep going higher. Apart from, of course, if anything could be impacted today by Julian Alvarez. And if anything would be impacted today by Julian Alvarez, it would probably be other Prem Strikers. So maybe like the Dual Pedro that we just looked at, Robbie Keane could be a card that maybe drops in price a little bit today. Maybe a Joe Cole because Julian Alvarez can play right wing as well. So that's gonna be stuff to think about. But really guys, I think icons, heroes, those out of pack special cards that have been kind of just creeping up in price these last couple of days, road to the knockouts, team of the weeks, they just kind of keep going up in price, right? That's probably gonna continue today. If there are any drops before content on these sorts of cards, the high tier, the meta, I think you have a good opportunity to trade with them today. And I'll be waiting until content. Like if you're trying to buy a team today, let's cover that for a second too. Let's say in like Nate, I really wanna buy a Messi for my team today. He's right around 100,000 coins. He's been going up, right? He was 94K last weekend. He's been going up all week. What I would maybe expect to see is a little bit of a drop heading into the content drop today. Like yesterday, he went from 110 to 104. You might have that sort of a thing today with definitely getting promo pack supply, right? There's gonna be packs open regardless. You've got a Ronaldo, a Kane, a Son, the Sophie Smith, the Rafael Leal that are in packs today. You definitely could see some golds drop down in that first hour. But like we saw last week, I think you would maybe see a rise after the first hour on some of these top tier, more meta cards. So if it's a higher rated card that you're looking to buy for a team like Messi, maybe like Voron, maybe Militão would be in that boat as well. Maybe Neymar would be an important one you're looking at today. A lot of Brazilian links recently. Also, some Saudi links with Ronaldo right there for Neymar. Keep an eye on Neymar today for sure. I think in that first hour would be a decent opportunity to get in on a few of those cards before they could rise a bit further. Now just as always, be careful with the lower rated ones, right? Lower rated ones, I'm talking like 83, 82 rated in below. Saliba still maintains a pretty good price on his game. But every single week he drops, right? Last week, he was 51K. Right now he's 43. This might be under 40,000 coins tomorrow and throughout the rest of the weekend, live with the supply, could have some fluctuations, but the lower rated stuff is going to continue to fall out of favor as it get packs more and more. And as new cards come out, there's a decent amount of center backs coming to this team today, by the way. The Marquinhos, the Danilo, the Martinez-Quarta, maybe not the most hyped one, but he gets okay stats. He could be pretty good there as well. I just noticed Julian Brandt is coming in the promo team. Either the mini-release or the full-release today. Again, some of these guys might be in the mini-release. I've heard rumors that Marais might be in the mini-release. Just kind of keeping on that as well. But that Julian Brandt might be pretty interesting to pair up with the Ben Sabine if I do him. Can't decide who I want to do yet for evolutions. But let's talk fodder really quick as well. I wanted to say this for the end because I think this is a really important place to be looking on the market today. Really great place to trade yesterday. And honestly, similar to yesterday, I think fodder has an opportunity, guys, to be viable in that first hour, first half an hour really, of the content drop today. Just like it did yesterday when we got to the content drop, right? We had this dip with supply. I think if we have prices drop, like if 88s go, if it depends, it depends on how low they go. Really, it is what it does. If 88s don't drop it all into content, they have to drop a lot after content for me to want to go invest in them with the new SBC coming out and all the other SBCs that we do have. If 88s are like 23 or 24K in that first half hour after content, I would say green light there to probably go out, buy some of those, stock them, but they may not go right up right away. It might be something where you buy some fodder today and then it just kind of slowly rises through the weekend as people are doing more SBCs. They get their weakening rewards and they go out and they can pay for cards like this. So if you see drops today in that timeframe, like again, we're looking for prices that are like about the same as they were at squad battle rewards or lower. Like lower would be great, of course, but they may not go that much lower because if today's content's not that good or if our only good content is in SBC, those fodder prices could rebound pretty quick. So I think there's potential there for to see prices rise throughout the weekend. And as always, watch your out of packs informs guys because they just keep moving up and as more coins get on the market, as more people are going and playing weekend league. And in general, I think people's coin balances are just slowly growing. I mean, every single week, as long as you're not doing too many SBCs and being smart about it, which there have been a lot of SBCs this past week, coin balances on the game, you can tell are growing. Like that's the fact. You see the higher rated cards continue to go up. The more meta cards continue to go up, golds, informs, icons, heroes. So I think today could be another day where prices jump later on into the evening. And again, watch those brand new promo cards for some flips today as well. If you wanna get involved with some of that could be a really good day for that as well. So guys, that's gonna be the video for today. I hope EA bring it today. E surprise us, man. Drop a great Julian Alvarez. Surprise us with me, I don't know, a cup. Like the second week of RTTK, we had a cup. Maybe we'll have a cup this week as well. Maybe that'll drop later in the weekend, like tomorrow. But I hope EA bring the juice today. Also, if you wanna learn more and kind of see how we reacted to the evolutions that were dropped yesterday, that video you can click right here. You'll see that on the second channel. But if you enjoyed today's video, drop a thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. It's been Nathan from Calum. I'll see you guys in a video tomorrow. Peace.