 Hey guys, it's Nate, A.K. before to count and welcome back to the channel. It is Sunday and the 87 plus icon pick is expiring today. So what's going to replace it, right? Sundays are normally the days where we get either an icon or a hero upgrade pack or pick SBC and today probably shouldn't be any different. So we're going to look at what potentially could come today. Maybe an SBC we've seen before or something we haven't yet seen. We'll talk about that. How to maybe invest for it and a sneaky move that EA made yesterday that you maybe didn't notice about how long winter wildcard items are in packs. If you're excited for it, drop a thumbs up on it and of course, subscribe. If you're new, let's go look over yesterday's content starting with the upgrade pack SBC. That seems really cool because it's got a lot of players inside of it. And I've started the SBC full disclosure. I'm doing this for the content, for the fun of it because, yes, this pack does seem kind of cool because it's so big, right? 100 players. It's very intriguing. It's a gamble, right? And it's a gamble that oftentimes doesn't give you a lot of really good players in return. The best part about it is it's an 83 with an inform and an 84 rated squad. So it's pretty easy to craft, especially with the our beloved 83 times 10 and the 83 plus team of the week player pick. But it does take a little bit of a grind from scratch. It's about 80,000 coins. What you get back from this is really not worth 80,000 coins specifically because there's so many silver and bronze players inside of it. But we opened a couple yesterday on the stream, couple double walkouts, couple of informs, a promo card here or there. They're not that great, but it's something that you could craft, right? It's just bad in terms of value because you get so many silver and bronze players, but it is a fun gamble and it's not that expensive. So I can't complain too much about it. It is definitely an interesting pack and it is out for five days. So you got plenty of time to get it done if you wish. Now, let's talk about our players. The big Allison 90 rated, right? I like the Allison was on yesterday's YouTube thumbnail better 93 rated with just more stats because for the price, that's the biggest problem with this card, guys. This card is what we call yesterday on stream a novelty card. It is a fun card for sure, but the price is the problem. And I got an issue with EA. This is so many now. It's it's been a trend. This is yet another SBC during Winter Wild Cards that is overpriced. I mean, Allison Becker for five hundred and ninety two thousand coins, five hundred and ninety three K. Yes, this card does look fun. Yes, the power shot plus is probably really good. Ninety passing probably makes him pretty decent as well. But I think I'm fine with my Thunderstruck Ballak in the midfield, who also has power shot plus four star four star and was a lot cheaper than this Allison card. Yes, I know he's a goalkeeper position change in the midfield. But when I look at the stats, yes, he looks fun, but he looks just not worth five hundred and ninety thousand coins worth of fodder. Even if I'm crafting it, the stats again, it's I don't know, man. I think the pricing is the problem that I have a lot of these SBCs. It's not that I hate the card. It's just over and over again during this promo. SBC after SBC is so expensive. Like the Martinelli, it is a really good card, but it's too expensive, right? And Babu, he's not even that expensive. The card just not that good. Same with the mobile, but especially as we look at the icons. Del Piero, why is that six hundred K Bobby Moore? Why is that three hundred and whatever thousand coins? Why is Ian Wright six hundred K guys? I think about the good value SBCs that we've had so far. Balotelli, Havertz, Luis Hernandez, like are those the only really good, good and well-valued player SBCs that we've had? That doesn't feel like winter wildcards. So why is EA making these guys so expensive? That's the problem with I have with the SBC again. If you're a Liverpool fan for Brazilian, if you just want to craft it because you want to try it out, it's fun, right? It's cool. It's a different card. Is he like Malinkovic Savage? There's no way he's like Sergey Malinkovic Savage. Sorry, Vanja Malinkovic Savage. He doesn't have five star skills. He's not six foot eight. This is a card that's released in the middle part of the year. Yes, it's fun. But yeah, man, I'm not going to be doing that one. I'm working on a whole it and I just don't like doing the SBCs that are too overpriced unless it has a personal connection with me. So that's my take on that SBC. But yeah, I just don't know why EA keeps overpricing things. That's my biggest problem. And that's probably what's killing a lot of the hype. Honestly, for this Winter Wild Cards promo, we remember SBCs of old like Payette and Eric Baillie last year that were so cheap and good value. And this year, it seems like there's less and less of those. But yesterday, we also had some upgrade packs that you cannot sleep on, guys. The Daily Bronze and Silver Upgrade, right? We now have a Daily Gold Bronze and Silver Upgrade. And it is worth doing all of them every single day. All you have to do for the Daily Bronze Upgrade is turn into one player to get a premium Bronze players pack back. You might be like, Nate, it's not worth my time. It is. Trust me, you should do that SBC every single day because it refreshes every single day. And those players that you get can go into the Daily Gold Upgrade, which gives you a lot of gold non-reels, which should hopefully go into either the Winter Wild Cards crafting upgrade, which a lot of you guys might be doing right now. Or we need the return of that 80-plus player pick soon. Please, EA, that 80-plus player pick was so good. That was alone enough to keep crafting and keep the menu grind available in this game that needs to come back. Now, yesterday as well, we did have some evolution content. And it was an evolution that we knew it was leaked. It was coming. But it's very interesting. And it's one that I think just like the other Evo that we had yesterday or two days ago in this game, like the High Visibility Evo and the Stop Right There Evo fit in the same category to me, guys. This is an evolution once again for somebody that you probably want to use in a chain. 75,000 coins. It does cost. It actually does take a decent amount of gameplay as well. Play for, win for, play for rivals matches and then win for again. So it's not like, you know, super-duper easy. You do get some nice boost though. It's all about passing and dribbling. That is all and some physical as well. Passing and dribbling is what this evolution is doing. It's upgrading these cards and it doesn't really even touch anything else besides that, right? A little bit of physical boost as well and you get some nice play styles, right? The weak foot is one part of this though that is really interesting and also very useful for a striker autumn. You get first touch, you get Tiki Taka and a plus one weak foot, which is very nice. Guys, once again though, as I look who fits this in my club, it's a lot of lower tier, lower rated golds and silvers. Like the lower tier cards are what fit into this. Of course, you have to be a striker as a part of this. There's an overall max 85 rating. There are some interesting cards that fit into this. Actually, what's really interesting is if you take a look at foot.gg, there are 1.9 million players that fit this evolution. Stop right there, one and slash two. 1.9 million players is crazy. There are so many players that fit this EVO which is again, another reason why I would say, let this sit unless there's something right now that you know you wanna put into this. This is an evolution that I would wait to do just like some of the other ones that we have just had and somehow try to combine it later on. I was even looking through here earlier today about like some evolved players that maybe you could do and do a combo chain evolution of like stop right there, maybe the growth spurt, taking a bronze or a silver player up to a crazy high level. In fact, let's take a look at some of the most popular evolution players right now. You know, Openda of course is really hyped up for this one. Ooh, this guy looks pretty cracked, Mahu. All right, see that's got an expired evolution inside of it. You gotta be careful with a lot of that stuff in there. But like that's the sort of thing that over the next couple of weeks, this EVO is out for 20 days, right? Over the next couple of weeks, you might find something that's really sick that can be EVOed as a part of this that, you know, maybe you combine with another EVO that gets dropped creates a really absolutely insane beast. So I love the week foot upgrade that is there and it is 75,000 coins and it does give some decent play styles but that just again does feel like a mid EVO. It's not bad, but it's not as good as last week which is why we kind of are like, all right, our expectations are here. EA is delivering here once again. Now yesterday too, we did have the mini release of cards that were put into packs. Once again, they did it a little bit early and it was a pretty average mini release. Kind of crazy that the card that is highlighting and headlining this mini release has got so many evolution versions and I think that's the reason why he's so cheap on the market. Rabio is the most expensive card in the mini release. He's 40,000 coins. It was Rabio, Becker, Lamella and Kerbello. Lamella's card's not that bad. 90 passing, 89 dribbling, center attacking mid and Sites have passed play style plus. Rabio's card is not that bad either. It's just already so dirt cheap because so many people have already evoked him multiple times over in different evos. I think that's the reason why he's cheap but we did have the mini release. Some people are asking, where's the new no-manage winter wild cards? There was a leaked one but I don't know where it's gone. I don't know when it's gonna make its appearance and may not make an appearance at all. That might just be one of those leaks that falls by the wayside and we never hear much about it again. So that was a mini release that happened yesterday and also I bought and sold a ton of cards yesterday guys. The market right now is still a fantastic place to be trading. I've got most of my coins back but I think today on this weekend and into this next week as well is gonna be a really good time to trade on the market. What I'm focusing on the most is out of pack special cards. I'm looking through team of the group stages, the way for heroes. A lot of the cards that we have been looking at are really, really great to trade with especially the out of packs ones. I love flipping this Jonathan Klaus. He goes down to like 210,000 coins multiple times a day and then it goes back up to 230, 240K and you've got 10 to 12 to 15,000 coins of tax I guess more like 10 to 12 because he never reaches 300 where there'd be 15,000 coins of tax. So I'm making like 10 to 15K per flip. If I get him at 205 like I did earlier and I'm selling him at 235, that's a really good flip, right? Over the course of a day's time that's what I would continue to tell you guys to do. Click through the market. Look at these different promo teams. Like right now, Musiala, I know his price, his fluctuation, that's up. That's up a lot. I'd sell him right now. Saka, he's a little bit low. Bellingham, he's a bit low. Like this Jude Bellingham at 650, like not to keep talking about the market over and over here, but whatever budget you're on you can find promo cards to trade with, watch their graphs and their fluctuations. 650 is getting to a price where I'd say I'm interested. If this gets undercut by like 10 more K, this guy sells right around 700,000 coins. 640 to like 690, that's not that terrible of a flip. Yeah, you got about 35,000 coins of tax there selling it right near 700K, but if we get one or two undercuts on that and he's like 640 or 630, that's a pretty good price. So look at all the out of packs cards. And I mentioned out of packs because those are usually the best ones to trade with. They got the best fluctuations. Even some of the cards that are impacts are good to trade with as well. And you can see that I've traded with some cards from the impacts promo team. Like yesterday I got a really lucky sale on Alan Shearer. That was pretty crazy at content. Yesterday I bought a Devinia at 180, sold at a 205. That was a good flip. So again, tons of cards you can trade with right now. The market is hot, prices are moving. It's a really, really good time to trade. I think today will be a good opportunity to watch the cards impacts as well. So make sure you keep an eye on the impacts cards from Winter Wild Cards Team 2 and Team 3. And what I wanna tell you about actually is something that EA didn't say they just did automatically. It's right here in the menus. It's gonna be behind the face cam. I won't be able to show you on the screen. But Winter Wild Cards 2 was supposed to go out of packs Monday. It is now extended right here on this tab. You can look for yourself in-game. Team 2 is now in the player pool until Friday. So Team 3 with Sala, Garincha, and all those guys. And Team 2 with Nkunku and Kawakar and Butraguenno. They're all going out of packs at the same time. These cards were supposed to go out of packs early. EA changed the time so that both teams are in packs the full week. Now, these cards are out of packs Monday. Monday, January 1st, Winter Best of. They will be going out of packs. So for right now, I would try to rib as many packs as you can. Hopefully EA give us upgrade packs today so that we have more chances to pack these Winter Best of before they go out of packs as well. Now, let's talk about today's content on Sunday. And it all revolves around the icon or the hero player pick pack SBC. Last week, we were a bit surprised. The 87 plus base Centurions or icon player pick, base or Centurions icon player pick, we hadn't even had a regular base icon player pick and EA dropped a combo one on us. It's three squads. It had a lot of hype because it's not that expensive, right? And you could get some really good cards from it. And a lot of people did it. Not myself though, because we're crafting rude. Now, what's gonna happen today, right? Because this is the thing, EA on Sundays, really anything goes for an icon pack or a hero pack. We had multiple weeks earlier on this year where it was just icon pack after icon pack, like with the Max 89. Then we had a base icon upgrade a couple weeks in a row. But two weeks ago, they gave us our first hero player pick, 86 plus hero player pick that we had had in a while. It was a one of two. Then of course, they just gave us this 87 plus. So what in the world is gonna drop today? I could see this SBC dropping again, but that wouldn't be too fun, right? I do think there is potential for another icon pack, another version of an icon pack to add in one of the most recent sets of icons in a pack that could be dropping today. And it's this pack code right here. You might be like, Nate, nah, this is already added to the game. It has been. It's at level 35 in objectives. But like I said earlier on, when I saw those season rewards, nothing in objectives is like brand new, right? A lot of the stuff in objectives for packs are released elsewhere first. I believe thoroughly that we're gonna see the 87 plus base Centurion or Thunderstruck icon pack, which is 87 plus again, like the pick. But this time it's a pack and it includes Thunderstruck cards. I believe we're gonna see this as an SBC before we're able to get to level 35. So whether it's today, whether it's next week in the next two weeks, three weeks, I think we'll see that as an SBC. Maybe it's today. Who knows? All I know about icon SBCs is EA loves 250,000 coins-ish as the range for these. Look at all the ones we've seen this year. Yeah, you had a couple cheap ones in there. The first icons, of course, icons are a lot cheaper when they're max 87. So they make those a bit cheaper, 115 to 130K. But the last three icon SBCs we've had have been between 250 and 274,000 coins. And fodder right now is pretty cheap. So I think that if they were to drop one of these again, if they were to drop this icon pack, it would probably still be around the 300K range. You know, you talk about the Thunderstruck cards that does add in a lot of really expensive icons, right? You go down here to Thunderstruck and you've got Dino, Cruyff, Henri, Pushkas, Kaffu, some big name players in here, Kaka, Kantana. This would be really, really hype if EA gave us the chance to pack one of these cards in an icon pack. Maybe they'd up that price to like 350,000 coins. There's potential for that. So that's one SBC that could be dropping today, but also EA love to do one week icon pack, one week hero pick or pack, right? And there is a fantastic five hero player pick that has been added into the code. The last time we had a hero pick, like we just looked at, it was a one of two. We really need to get away from this guys. And honestly, this one of five hero pick, yeah, it's one of five. I would see that though as an L because who wants base heroes at this stage of the game? If they're gonna give us a hero pick, include triple threats at least, which isn't gonna include that many great heroes. You have Cole, Govu, Mornientes, and then boosted versions of Torre and Ginola. It's only like six heroes. So that's not that great if they add those in as well. If you get lucky for Torre or Ginola, you're getting super lucky in a dynamic image of a different car design. So I don't know. I think this would be seen as kind of an L, although it is a one of five. So you would have a decent chance of packing some really good heroes. So there could be a little bit of hype for this, but if this player pick has dropped for heroes, I think it will be a lot cheaper. It should be like 150K instead of like 275 or 300K for an icon pack. So yeah, that's that there. You know, we're gonna find out what we're gonna get before content today. If you take a look at FIFA Romania on Twitter, he's been posting on Sundays the icon pack or the hero pick that we're gonna get before content a couple hours before. So maybe you'll have an idea of what might be coming out, how expensive it might be. So I will shout out his Twitter there because he's been posting a lot of that stuff early. Hopefully EA end off this year with a banger. But with those SBCs incoming, I do wanna look at fodder because fodder is once again in a place, guys, 88 rated cards are 17K. Yesterday, they were 16,000 coins. You can probably still get them on bid at 16K. After the lightning rounds, the pack supply that dropped, these cards were down at 16K flat. When was the last time that 88s were 16K, you might ask? Oh, the first two weeks of the entire year. With all the SBCs that we have out right now, yes, albeit a lot of them overpriced, but think about it, icon packs that are gonna be continually released over the next two weeks, you've got the Zidane, the Holit, the Eusebio, a player of the month Mbappe, more player of the months incoming, a lot of player SBCs. I can't imagine that all of these cards are gonna stay this cheap, right? I think that some of the fodder right now on this market in terms of the prices might even be good for the next two weeks to just invest in, do a club stock and say, wow, these prices are cheap. I'm gonna hold onto these for a while because they should probably rise with just simple SBC demand and a lot of SBCs being out. I like specifically for today, for the icon SBC potential, I like 87s and 88s. 87s at 10K, just like the 88s are like crazy low for where they have been throughout the entire year. They've been between 12 to 18K and now they're down here at 10,000 coins. Stock your club with a couple, right? You'll probably be happy in a couple weeks. I do believe these prices can go up, especially before a team of the year, EA is going to wanna drain coins out of people's accounts so that they put on FC points during team of the year for sure. So I think that 88s at under 17K are really good. 87s under 11,000 coins are really good. And even now it's how 86s, right? 86s have started to go up, right? You take a look at Musiala, how much was he on Friday? He was like 7.3K. Yesterday he was 7.6, starting to rise to like 8,000 coins. I think maybe last week they were a little bit cheaper too at like 7K, maybe even a little below that for 86s at 7K, like 7.2, 7.3 for 86s is probably good. If we don't get a good SBC today, you know, there will be some lightning rounds 100%, but EA is running less lightning rounds. Like I go into the store right now, there are no lightning rounds, no global limit packs in the store. And there are less packs inside of the promo pack section as well, mostly the intradable packs, right? So the 84 times 10, it did come out yesterday, but it's not impacting the market as much because they're not releasing them as much, which is why I think it's probably a decent time to get locked in and to get clubs stocked, which is probably what I need to do here and get on some bids, right? I think bids are the place to do that, especially if we don't get good content today. I could see bids being a really good place with the lightning rounds to be doing some club stocking. So that's kind of my thoughts on the club stocks there. 85s, yeah, they're starting to go up, right? They were really, really low last week. They were 4K. Now they're back up to 5,000 coins, which is more of their usual. I mean, usually 85s are like 6 to 7K. So 5,000 coins, like 5.3 to 4 for 85s is decent. If those drop back down today, that's good. 84s, if you can get like low 2K range, those are starting to go up as well. Same with 83s. I think it's because the year in review player pick that we had yesterday and that 100 players pack, man, I know that we mentioned it is not that great a value, but a lot of people see, wow, 100 players in a pack, let me do that real quick. So that's why you're seeing some of the 83s, 4s and 5s go up because that fits perfectly into what you need for that SBC that dropped yesterday and those prices definitely went up. All in all, fodder in terms of the golds, looks to be pretty good for a club stock. Now, really quick for the high tier, 89s, 30,000 coins. Even for some of these cards, like Rodgery, he's fodder, right? He was 21K up to 40K. Usually these cards are between 34 and 38,000 coins and now they've been 29,000 coins the past couple of days. I think this is a decent club stock for these two. Honestly, I think the whole fodder market is down, down, down from all the supply and the lightning rounds that we have had and we still have a decent amount of SBCs to draw and there's a lot of people playing this game and there's going to be more SBC content and one thing we know is that EA is going to keep turning it out. So those, whether it's long term or maybe even today, if we have a higher rated, if we had an 88 rated squad inside of an icon pack, 89s will go up, right? If we have an 87 rated squad inside of an icon pack, 88s will go up, 87s will go up for that as well. That's why I like this range and even the 90s for 49K is a bit low. Compared to previous years, 90s are expensive this year but I think that's because it's hard to pack them and that's what you need for those 89 rated squads or the first 90 rated squad they put inside of what was it, Mbappe or Eusebio. So you need those. So decent club stock opportunity for those as well. I just think fodder overall is really, really low and it has been low but I think we're nearing the time where it could start to go up later on this week, in the next week and all sorts of things like that. There's gonna be a lot of demand still. Now, Team of the Weeks obviously are a very big point for fodder as well. We're talking fodder in today's video for sure. Team of the Weeks went up yesterday because of that pack, right? It contains a Team of the Week requirement. They're 40,000 coins again. It really depends on today's content if this stuff goes higher or not. The 83 times 10 guys is expiring tomorrow which is one thing that if Team of the Weeks are gonna go up, I think they have one last shot to go up and it's today. If we get a new icon pack or player pick or hero player pick that requires an inform that it's hyped, it's gotta be a good one, right? Up voted on foot bin, price is good, people are excited about it. They could go up one more time today but I think after today, that's probably it. I think they will drop off a good amount unless the 83 times 10 comes back because this SBC I think is just so much demand for them. The year in review player pick as well is demand for them. The new SBC had dropped yesterday so they're up because there's a lot of demand right now but once some of these SBCs go away I just think they're gonna end up going down. So maybe today if you have some of those and maybe take the cash, I'm not gonna be investing personally. I'm not gonna buy informs until I see them back down under 30K at least. And even then it seems crazy to me to buy an inform for an investment of 30,000 coins but it could be possible. So that's the fodder talk in today's video. I wanted to spend some time talking about that. I know a lot of you guys like to make coins on fodder and SBCs are gonna continue to roll out so I think it's maybe an opportunity today maybe during squad battle rewards if there's a little bit of supply to get on some bids maybe a content depending on what content comes out for sure get on some bids and that could be good. Now other content that could come today on Sunday of course we're looking at our graphic, right? It's Davor Sukher, the last SBC player of FC24 in 2023 it's gonna be Davor Sukher today, right? And yeah, he's got a very mid card for his base version. He does have Trivella. He's got chip shot and technical on his base card. His icon's been minimum priced almost all year long by the way, which is crazy. But hopefully they'll do a Luis Hernandez type boost to this card. Maybe they give him finesse plus. I hope they give him like high 80s pace or 90 pace keep a shooting high boost up his passing and dribbling and make this card pretty cracked. He's already 4-4, he's left-footed give him some play styles. He's lean body type. He could be really good. There's potential here, man. I'm hopeful, but I'm not expecting, right? The last SBCs as we've mentioned have just been expensive and overpriced and I hope today maybe turns the tide but maybe it's not until tomorrow with Diata. This Diata card actually might be pretty cracked because he's got a lot of pace. So hoping that that one could be good but these last three icon of SBCs Sukher, Roy Keen and Trezzagay they gotta actually make them well priced and give them some decent boost because again, I'm losing hope with Winter Wildcard player SBCs because of the prices. Now, other content, right? We're dropping an Evo basically every single day or at least EA seems to be dropping an Evo every day like it was last week around this time in the weekend, heading into the start of the week. We've had Evo's the past two days. We still have two of the four lead Evo's that have been talked about. We have the Keep Up Evolution which is the center back evolution that made Saliba's price go up a lot on the market. That one still is coming and then also we have the Crossing Crusader Evolution which was leaked before and evidently the whipped pass plus play style fits that Evo or maybe one thing that is given out as a part of that Evo. So hopefully one of those two is today. I would expect one of those two to be dropped today. Oh, Robert Taylor fits that one. Oh, that's kind of a saucy card. Now that's a really early on in for him. I doubt that's even like on the market. You have to get, actually you couldn't even pack him from a team league player pick because he's, what was his rating right there? 80 rated? Wow, GGZ, that one doesn't even exist in this game anymore. But anyways, I think that's the content for today, guys. Objectives, we're all getting an 80 plus times 10 because the next day, we're two days away from getting this thing completely finished. The daily login completionist today is a Winter Wild Cards loan and an 80 times 10 and then tomorrow on Monday we'll finish this thing off with an 84 times 20. Everybody gets an 84 times 20, which is another reason I think fodder could go up because these are intradable and that's gonna make people want to go do SBCs. Maybe the SBC that EA drops today. It's why I'm hoping they drop a big boy icon pack like that Thunderstruck icon pack. You know what I'm saying? That could be good. I have high hopes and I gotta finish, hold it. Hopefully that 84 times 20 is gonna get that done for me. But yeah, guys, also there's an extra day to play a weekend league, which don't look at my record when I show you this, but it's been a terrible weekend league, man. But once again, you have an extra day. Oh, you can't even see it, it's behind the camera. Two days to play, it's not, you know, the counter is not timing down until Monday. It's Tuesday, right? So we got that extra day, which is very nice. I think maybe it's happening for the rest of the entire season of Frostbite, which is really, really dope. We love an extra day for a weekend league. I hope it's not just for this, like these last two weeks with the holidays and stuff, the new year and Christmas and all that. We'll have to see. But I do like that from EA, that it's very nice and looks like our Jude Bellingham opportunity is gone. So there's that. But yeah, guys, I think that's the video for today. I'm gonna keep watching the market. I'm gonna watch a wild card players really closely today. And I'm hoping that today's content on Sunday is decent because other than that, we really need something to turn up in this game right now. The Allyson yesterday is cool. But again, a lot of you guys in the comments yesterday were saying that, man, you just think that the Allyson, all the position changes and all that stuff, it's too early for that, right? It's too early and you just don't like how EA is going about this right now with winter wild cards from what it used to be to kind of what it is now. If it was like shape shift, there's an all of that. And I hear you, right? I totally hear you. We'll see what EA do today with Sookare. Hopefully they keep him a striker, an attacker and they give him some good play styles. I'm fingers crossed for something good there. But again, no high expectations. Not gonna say he's gonna be good and then he's gonna be absolutely crap like the last ones have been. So that's the video for today, guys. If you did enjoy it, smash the thumbs up on it, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. I will see you guys in a video tomorrow. The first video of 2024, man. Happy doing here. See you guys there. Peace out.