 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Big day on FIFA Ultimate Team coming this Friday. And I want to get you guys ready for it. I want to talk about it. And I want to cover all the aspects of icons and icon swap set two that is coming on Friday. Now, obviously, according to the old icon pitch notes that EA had put out earlier this year, this is the time period that first mark in the road, that first change in the road and the graphs that they showed us of the icon, the progression of icons this year in FIFA Ultimate Team with the prime icons coming into PAX in December. This graph basically right here, this is the first time we've actually seen it change since the beginning of the game. Base icons, which have been out since early access are now going to be going out of PAX. As you can see here, this red line, the base icons are here and the primes are going to now be in PAX as of this Friday. We think it's going to be this Friday. It would make sense, right? Because season two in FIFA Ultimate Team ends this Friday. And that would be like a reset time for the season, for prime icons to come into PAX and also for a new icon swap. So again, this is what we're all talking about today in this video. I want to talk about prime icons, how they're going to come onto the market. I want to talk about their pack weight. I want to talk about what about the mids and the base icon prices. Are the base icons going to rise out of PAX? Is it going to be all base icons rise? What's going to happen with some of those prices? And just generally talking about what could happen on Friday as well as look at some possibilities for icon swaps. So I'm going to talk about the prime icons and the market stuff first and we'll talk about icon swaps towards the end. So first thing I want to look at is, I added some of these cards to my transfer targets right now to kind of talk about them. These icons right now in the game are some of the most desired and some of the most used icons inside of FIFA Ultimate Team. We have Hullett, Carlos Alberto, Ronaldo, Vieira and Del Piero. Now these are just some of, there's a few of them, right? This is just a few. There's a lot of very meta and a lot of very used icons in this game. And I want to take you guys through some scenarios and look into some card prices and talking about how I feel these primes are going to affect the market in the coming days. So the first person I want to look at here is Hullett, right? Now a lot of us know that as we go and look at Hullett's graph on foot bin, a lot of you guys know what's been happening with these icons recently, right? It's been no secret. After Black Friday, a lot of these cards went up in Hullett's case, he's been rising for the entirety of the year. As people get more coins and there's more demand, more people actually get the coins to afford the Hullett 6.2 million for the middle version of Hullett is crazy. And basically since the beginning of December, the week after Black Friday, look what has happened with this card. Down from 6.1, 6.2 mil, down to 5.5 in a week. Next week comes, he's down to 5 million coins flat, which is still kind of where he is right now. These cards have just continually dropped and continually dropped. I think it's a combination of things. Combination of the promos running back to back, team of the group stage promo being out, incredible card weight, cards are in packs, incredible promo team. And obviously people are knowing the prime icons are gonna be into packs soon. But I think the promos kind of combined with the thought that when the primes come into packs, that the middles and the babies might lose some value, especially the middle, I think is really what started to cause some of the sell off and some of these really upper tier high echelon meta icons, especially like this rude Hullett card. Because you know, there's probably a lot of people in FIFA right now that wanna buy this card for their team. And well, they wanna buy the prime now that the prime is gonna be coming out instead of the middle, which has been the highest version that has been out so far. Because people in FIFA want the best card possible, right? They want the new, they want the fresh, they want the best possible and they're willing to pay for it. So that's why I think this card has been down a little bit and a lot of the other icons because people just want to get the best version in their squad. So what about a guy like Collet? What's gonna happen this weekend when prime's going to packs? Well, first of all, the primes are gonna come into packs and they're not gonna have a drop percentage like these team of the year nominees or even like the baby icons have had, right? Prime icon's getting packed on the market. 2.9% for a team of the year nominee out of a prime gold players pack. People keep talking about these prime icons coming on the market and they're gonna lower the prices of the metas because it's gonna kinda push the prices down as the primes come on, right? I don't think that's gonna be the case, day one. We're talking day one, Friday when these come into packs. I really don't see them being packed enough to get on the market and to be like undercut and relisted like every Friday when we have a new promo, right? The card prices keep going lower because somebody packs that card and they keep undercutting the lowest seller until it reaches a price where the market feels like it's a price where they wanna buy that card and where they feel like the card is worth it, right? That's what a market means. Supply and demand meeting in the middle to find a spot where people are comfortable, where that price is setting comfortably. That's supply and demand. And right now this supply is more and the demand is less on a card like this because people are selling it because the prime is coming out and that's why you see his price drop. But speaking of supply, when the prime icon comes onto the market and when it gets in packs on Friday, even if we have lighting rounds like 50Ks, 100Ks and 125,000 coin lighting rounds, I would be very surprised if I saw on the PlayStation 4 market. I would be very surprised if I could count the number of prime halts on the market on more than one hand. I would do not think there will be five, more than five prime halts come onto the market on Friday. I'm talking like a full day after all the lighting rounds. I don't think I would see more than five, honestly. The pack weight for these cards is gonna be super, super low. They're icons, right? They don't get packed regardless. And that's why I think some of this panic selling, I guess you could call it, on some of the icons could be a bit premeditated. And I think that there could be a little bit of a rise on icons like Hullet, on icons possibly like Del Piero. That's going out of packs. It's a different scenario. Maybe even the 88 Vieira who's also taken a pretty big hit in price. I think they're really, really meta, like top tier icons that are middle cards that are still gonna be in packs that are like the really meta guys. I do still think there's a possibility that they go up a little bit on Friday into this weekend because people that are, if there are people that are selling the middles because they wanna buy the Prime, I don't think the Prime is gonna be out in the market for people to actually buy, right? I really don't think that's gonna be possible for many people on this weekend, right? Prime Hullet's probably gonna have a price range. I mean, this Hullet right here has a price range of 11.1 mil. I would assume that the Prime Hullet's gonna have a price range of somewhere around like 13 mil, right? It would make sense. Maybe even 14 or 15 million coins. So that card's gonna come out of the market at like the moments price of the card's last year that came out, right? When like Prime R9 was extinct at 15 mil or whatever that was, I think that's how it's gonna be for the Primes right now this year because if EA is gonna know that people that wanna buy those cards are gonna pay the big bucks for them and then they're gonna lose coins and lose value over time. That's how it is with new cards coming into the game. But that's kinda how I feel about the Metas. I feel like some of them could rebound slightly, right? Maybe this Hullet is right now like 5.1 or 5.0, 5.0, just over 5 million coins. Maybe the Prime comes out. It's at like 12, 13 million. And this card goes back up to like 5.4, 5.5 maybe. Maybe a rise kinda like that. I would not expect a huge rise back up to 6 million but just maybe a little bit of a rise there. Now I wanna talk about some of the babies that are going out of packs, right? So we talk about the supply and demand. There's still gonna be demand for a lot of these baby icons because they're still very good on this game especially. I think this is the prime example right here of a baby icon card that is very in demand in this game. Carlos Alberto's 87 rated position change, center back icon card. This is a new icon to FIFA this year. He's about 800,000 coins right now and a couple weeks ago after Black Friday at his peak, this card sold at 1.1 million coins. I actually bought one myself for one mill flat and sold it for 1.1 flat a couple weeks ago right after Black Friday. He's now down to 800K because people are scared. You know, this whole market downturn. People lost a ton of coins in this market with the team of your nominee cards and with all of this icon swaps thing heading into foot miss. People have lost a ton of coins and for on the icons and on a lot of cards on the market regardless but cards like this, right? They're going out of packs and their position changes. There's two really good examples right here. Carlos Alberto and not Zola, Zambrata, the other Italian, that's what I'm talking about. Gianluca Zambrata, the baby Zambrata card still holding a decent price, right? 660, 670,000 coins for this card right now. It's a position change card, right? We're gonna go over to flip in and look at this one. 86 right wing back Zambrata. A lot of people like this card, right? His prime that is coming out is also a right back. His middle is a left back. So there's a couple position change things in here that I wanna talk about. Zambrata is a little bit different than what Carlos Alberto is but if you look at Carlos Alberto, right? The 90 rated right back card, 810,000 coins. The center back baby is also around the same price of 800K and it's got eight less pace but it's a center back, right? And I think that is what's gonna make this card very interesting. This is like when people are talking about baby icons that could rise out of packs this is the number one prime example in my opinion because out of all the Carlos Alberto cards, besides the prime, I feel like this one, if you're gonna use a Carlos Alberto card at any point in foot, now you're probably using this one or you're gonna use the prime, right? Because the prime is just a little bit better than the middle, the pace is the same and it's got like plus three defending physical dribbling and shooting and plus one on passing. So this card right here being a center back and the position change is all that it needs I think. I could see this card rising up like 100K out of packs just because of the position change and that's one of the things that I wanted to talk about with some of these. I do feel like there are a very select few that are very meta icons that are very, very popular on this game that have the position changes that are going to rise out of packs. And again, it's the position change that really makes this card to me very useful and very valued and different from all the other baby cards that are going out of packs. So I feel like this one's gonna maintain its value or maybe rise up a little bit. I mean, a lot of these cards on the market the way that this market is rolling right now we're in the middle of a promotion where it's all about SBCs and people have been losing coins on the daily panic selling cards and losing coins on their Mbappes on their Neymars and stuff like that and turning those coins into SBCs and even draining more coins out of their clubs as we continually get better foot mist SBCs every day. So you keep seeing that that just means the market is getting weaker and weaker in terms of not having coins. And that's another reason why I think a lot of these icons have dropped in price, right? But I do still think there are some of them that have a little bit of a rebound left in them. That's the kind of card though that I do think you could see rise a little bit out of packs. Again, it's gotta be meta and it's gotta be a position for me to be a rise out of packs. Other than that, your regular baby and middle icons that are just kind of running the mill like maybe like a baby that's Cliver, it's probably not a good example but maybe like a baby Seedorf, right? A baby Seedorf, I really don't see this card rising up too much out of packs because his best version of Seedorf is arguably the middle, right? And the middle is still going to be in packs. It's really cheap right now anyway, right around 990K. But if people are using a Seedorf, like this is the one that they use, right? This one's still gonna be in packs and the baby one I think is like 600 and 500 or something thousand coins. So yes, some of these cards could probably, you know, I think most of the baby icons are gonna stay the same price as they go out of packs. If there's anybody that could rise, again, it's gonna be this super meta, super usable and hyped up guys like Adele Piero possibly. If you're gonna use a version of Adele Piero in this game, this is the one you wanna use because of the pace, right? It just fits this game. So that's kind of how I feel about the cards going out of packs and how I feel about a lot of the icons. Now I wanna talk about some of the low tier icons as well. Like I mentioned, I started to talk about Cliver, right? This, like a baby Cliver going out of packs, I really don't feel like it affects anything on this game. People are gonna graduate from these cards. Like this card already is just really not that usable. We've had like the Rashford card that came out this week is better than this card. And the Rashford SBC was what, 250K. This card right now is like almost the same price, 220,000 coins. The cards that are coming out in this game, the striker informs that you can get now for this sort of price are better than the icons in the game. So of course the icons have the linking capabilities, but I just don't feel like a lot of these babies are going to rise unless they're super meta, maybe like Azolla, maybe like, again, like the Carlos Alberto. But basically if you look at the icon, it's gonna be kind of on a specific icon to icon basis. But if you look at that icon and the very best version of that card is the base, the baby one, then I would say those are kind of the only cards that are gonna have a chance to rise out of packs. The babies that are really OP again, or position change. That's the main thing I want you to focus on with the babies and stuff headed out of packs. But again, I really don't see a huge rise on a lot of these icons anyway in this market, because as I mentioned, with the team of your nominees, foot mis going on, sucking a lot of coins off the market and just massive panic selling everywhere, I think the most of the rebound in the market is just gonna be in like meta gold players, because maybe somebody who had like, maybe five million coins before with a couple icons over a mill, you mean a lot of those icons may have dropped like, 10 to 20%, they're losing a lot of coins. They might be only able to buy one of those icons back without having to, not being able to buy them both back now, thanks to the team of the year nominees being in packs and that just kind of lowering prices since they're getting packed so much and all that kind of stuff that's happening on the market in this game. So again, icons coming out, I don't think you're gonna see the primes enter the market super fast, especially like the ones that people want, right? Prime Eusebio, Prime Cruyff, Prime R9, Prime R10, Prime Vieira, Prime Hulet, Prime Carlos Alberto. I don't feel like it's gonna take one day for there to be like a page of those cards in the market and their price to just drop down to a reasonable level. It's gonna take some time, right? Team of the year is gonna be a huge time in this game when the prime icons are in packs and they're gonna get packed and packed and packed from lightning rounds, even if they're like low rate, right? There's a ton of packs open during team of the year. So that's what I would expect to see some of the prime icons come out into the game because it's weird, right? This is something we've never seen in FIFA before. Again, with the primes coming out at a separate time in the game, in years past they've always started as being in packs right away, or at least when the prime SBC came out, they were in packs. So I feel like that is a pretty interesting thing. This is the first year, right? We really don't know exactly what is going to happen with some of these cards just based on the fact that we've never had this situation before, right? So that's how I feel about the icons. Again, I kind of feel like it's on an icon by icon basis. Just kind of have to look at that card and figure out is this meta or people are gonna use it? And is it good at possibly rise out of packs because of the demand that it does have? Now, I'm gonna spend a little bit here at the end talking about icon swap set two. I wanna look at a prediction and I wanna talk about the requirements for the objectives and how they might be a little bit different. So obviously we're gonna have a new set of icons swaps coming out. This is a prediction on Twitter from one of the guys that I follow, his name is JustEye. It's right here, JustEye Foot Trading. Give him a, chuck him a follow if you're interested in FIFA trading, he's a great account. But a lot, this prediction right here I think is really positive, right? But he makes a good point when he tweeted this out he said that just a reminder, this is going to be taking us, this icon swaps is going to be taking us into February when primer, like the moments icons, primer icons, whatever you call them they're going to be coming in packs when these cards, when this swaps is done, right? So in this last set of icon swaps we had a couple of prime cards which were not actually in packs. So I think that he's right on here with having a few moments cards in this list because moments won't be in packs yet but I think it's possible that they could be in icon swaps set two. So just kinda keep your eyes out for that. I think he picked like a really positive one here. There's a lot of like good, a lot of the names that we see in here are popular names, right? Carlos Alberto, Dalglish, Luis Figo Vieira, Garincha, even like a baby Cedar of Raikar, Desai Pati like a lot of the lower level and then the mid level is like really good quality icons. I do feel like there's not enough defenders in this one possibly. Maybe in that middle range, if we could insert, I don't know if a Maldini would be too much to ask but I feel like this is like an accurate description of what the top three could be for like 20 plus tokens. I feel like it's gonna be the same amount of tokens because the amount of grinding that they asked us to do already for this, like it was hard to do icon swaps, man. I was gunning for Zanetti, I was gunning for maybe Rio and Pep and I ended up getting Roberto Carlos and having one extra swap. So I did 12, right? It's just hard to grind these swaps. It takes a lot of time, especially in this gameplay which not a lot of people are happy with and it requires tons of rivals and just grinding squad battles. It just, people aren't very happy to do it, right? So that is why I think, I think they need to give us some good icons. I really hope that they do give us some quality ones and I think this is a decent prediction because it puts some big names in here but I think it accurately displays what kind of grinding you might have to do to get some of those icons. Again, that might be a little bit positive having Dalglish, Carlos Alberto Vieira, Garincha, Henri, Mateus in all the same swaps, but we'll see, man. We'll see what EA really wants to do with these swaps that they're just gonna choke us out of it and make it almost a joke and really not give us stuff. Then we'll see what happens with set two and we'll be able to tell their motives by what they put out as a part of set two. Now again, for the swaps and for the objectives, how do I think these could change? I honestly think that they're going to up the requirements and they're actually gonna make it a little bit harder. I think the objectives will probably stay the same because a lot of the objectives this year have been copy-paced, right? Win five rivals matches using 11 Brazilian players. Maybe they do like win five rivals matches using French players because maybe there's a French player that's in one of the top three icon swaps like Zidane. If they do a Zidane, that would be insane. It definitely would not be as prime. It'd probably be like as baby or middle and that would suck because once the player gets into the icon swaps, no other version will be available in a following icon swap, right? We're not gonna see any more versions of Rio or Drogba in icon swaps because we saw them in icon swap set one. So again, I just feel like the icon swap objectives are gonna be about the same, right? And maybe instead of win four, it's win five or six or seven games using again the first owner objectives. I feel like it's gonna be just copy-paced, add a couple extra wins on. Same thing with these single players, right? Maybe they switch up some of these lower-level leagues. Maybe they do like the Turkish League, like Liga, I don't know, maybe like the Super League. Well, they already did Super League. Maybe, I don't know, maybe the Arid of Vizzy. I think they did it in set one. I don't know, man. I'm really intrigued to see what they do with these. I hope they incorporate the friendly modes, man. Can they please incorporate this new mode that they amped up so much this year, friendlies? Like, let us win, make us win 20, not 20, maybe that's too many. Win 10 games of like King of the Hill, right? Maybe we have to go through every single one of these modes right here, right? No rules, long range survival, headers and volleys, max chemistry, swaps, mystery ball and King of the Hill, and maybe we have to win five, right? Win five matches in all these different modes online and it can't be against a friend. That would make it kind of grindy, but still interesting, right? Playing these game modes are kind of fun and we haven't had them utilized like it all this year in objectives, so I really hope that they incorporate those into icon swap objectives. Again, you see the timeline up here kind of by my face by the camera right here. One day, 14 hours from when I'm recording this video. Friday, I think it's like what, 6 p.m. UK-ish? Somewhere around like the Friday drop time is when we should see information about prime icons coming into packs, icons set number two and possibly another promo on Friday which we'll talk about tomorrow if we get some more information, possibly road to the final two. And it really seems like that could be very possible since we've been getting these other roads to the final like SBCs, right? With the Diego Carlos and then today with the player pick between Kent and Forrest. So I do feel like that promo could be coming this weekend as well. And we'll talk about more of that kind of stuff again tomorrow as we do get a chance. But again, I just wanna get your, it's a long video today, boys, but there's just a lot to talk about with these icon cards and there's so many people that want icons in their team and they want to be able to get them. And of course, like I mentioned with icon swaps coming out, there could be a Viera, like maybe this middle Viera card gets into icon swaps and boom, you see this price go down a little bit because people are gonna think that they can grind to that card. You know, I really wouldn't think that that would happen with too many cards because of course, if it's Viera, he's probably gonna be like somewhere between 15 and 20 tokens. So it's gonna take a while to grind to that card. So I don't think the impacts of that would be immediate, but I do think it is possible that we can have some market movements on Friday based on what cards get into icon swaps, all right? It's gonna be an interesting Friday, boys. It's gonna be interesting looking at these primes on the market, it's gonna be interesting. Again, we keep getting foot mist content and again, seeing the second set of icon swaps. If you enjoyed this video, smash your thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe to the channel if you're new. It's been Nate, Foot Accountant. Catch you guys later. Peace out.