 Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA The Foot Accountant, and welcome back to the channel. Happy Monday and start to a brand new week. And starting off the week this week, what I want to enter into is a conversation about the current promo, the fantasy foot cards. Do we have an opportunity to invest in these cards as they go out of packs and as we watch them kind of get packed and maybe rise in price throughout the rest of this week? I think there is potential for that because these are live cards. There's a lot riding on these cards for the upgrades and the hype around those. I want to talk about investing in those and the hero versions in today's video a little bit. Now, speaking of those heroes, yesterday ESEA hit us with a little bit of a surprise with the 87 plus, keeping the hero theme going. They hit us with another hero player pick. We've seen this one before, but it's one of five. Five options for this is massive and it's got a lot of people very excited. The market is moving a lot because of this and the MTD SPC yesterday as well. Both, I guess, decent enough to make people want to go sell some cards and buy some fodder as we see fodder in multiple areas moving. We'll talk about that and speaking of today on Monday, what's the content gonna be? Is it just gonna be upgrade packs to help us craft SPCs and maybe pack some man of the matches, team of the weeks, fantasy heroes and fantasy cards? We'll talk about that and what else to expect with the market today because will we see a market rise on a Monday where Weekend League is still going on? We'll talk about that in today's video as well. So if you're excited for it, hit the thumbs up, subscribe if you're new. Let's quickly go back to yesterday and talk about what happened with this hero player pick to start things off in the video today. I'm sure a lot of you guys have done this. It's not that expensive of a gamble. It's a little too expensive for my liking but EA knew exactly what they're doing with this because they've dropped this pack before but they've never given us or placed player pick before but they've never given us five options, right? And this is massive because five options gives you a lot of potential for the what if, right? When you play that through your mind, this is a gamble where EA is saying, yes, these cards are a little bit behind the curve and base icons or base heroes, sorry, like those are old, man. We've had those since the start of the game. Like the fact that you can pack base, like I don't even know, like somebody base hero cards out of this is just not great and that's what I don't like about it but people are doing it because you have five options and five options gives you the opportunity to pack somebody really good. So 290,000 coins, 72% upvote. A lot of DGNs on this FIFA game right now, right? I get it, I get it. I'm very interested in doing this because if there's no other big SBCs that drop throughout the rest of this week, this is one that you could do upgrade packs, craft it up and have a fun opportunity to try to pack one of those big boy World Cup hero players, right? It's not about, I mean, maybe Ginola, you know, a couple of those guys like Dina Talley or Marquicio and I've seen some pretty good ones in the past couple of hours but I've also seen some pretty bad ones. So it's a gamble. If you don't have a lot of coins, be careful. This is one that I would probably say most people aren't packing cards inside of it that are going straight into their starting 11. A few will, but not that many will. So that's why I would be careful with this one but it is fun and of course you can tell with this upvote percentage and the way the market's moving, people are doing this SBC. Now with the requirements, you've got two informed requirements which has made some informs go up but you've got a lot of 85 rated requirements in here like the 84 rated squad requires 385s. The 85 squad alone of course is gonna require 85s and then the 87 or the 86 squad requires an 87 which means you're probably gonna fill out the rest of that 86 squad with some more 85s than you normally would because you have that higher rated player in there and that has made 85s with all that demand shoot up in price from about a 10 to 11K. They're up to about 15, 14 and a half, 15,000 coins. Very nice price rise on these cards. 86s are up a little bit. 84s are up around 1,000 coins a card now too. Right from just under 4K to almost 5,000 coins even 83s are up a little bit because of this too. So the low rated fodder is what moved yesterday with the demand. High rated fodder just kind of chilling and actually going down. 91s are at 60,000 coins. For right now I would not invest in these. I think I would wait until later on in the week. I feel like there's a very small opportunity and I mean very, very small that EA would drop another sort of big SBC. It would have to take like another icon pack later on this week for EA to make those high rated fodders go back up. So unless we have a leak, a new pack added to the code or something about an icon pack coming or it dropping into the game, I would stay away from that high tier stuff because the focus right now looks like it's on a little lower tier with this SBC requiring all 86s rated and below and then some inform. So that definitely made the market move yesterday. Now what cards dropped? Now a lot of the market did drop yesterday because people sold cards to go and do this SBC. We talked about that in yesterday's video, right? When there's good gamble packs or just good SBCs that people want to go and do, they sell cards to go and get it done. And this is one that's actually rebounding back up a little bit right now that was down a lot yesterday and Katya was 180,000 coins. He went all the way down to 160. Kavicha was one, even on a bit of a higher range. He was like 570,000 coins. He's down to 520 right now. A lot of your middle tier market, like 3,400,000 coins, cards or less, these are the cards that dropped yesterday as people maybe went out and sold a card like this to go and get the hero player pick SBC done. Now some Manchester United cards like this Casamiro are maybe down a little bit extra because of the unfortunate 7-0 loss yesterday. As a lot of people were myself included, we're hoping for that Vega horse upgrade. Some of these cards are down a lot. 385 right now from Alasio, that's pretty low. He was like 460 yesterday. So some of those cards could bounce back and we'll talk more about the market today. But the bottom line is a lot of people sold some cards yesterday to get that hero player pick done and some of those cards might be bouncing back because I feel like content's not gonna be that insane as we head into today on Monday and even tomorrow on Tuesday. We'll talk more about that in the video but we also had a Umtiti SBC yesterday which a lot of your French center backs in the game like Kalulu, other Syria center backs like Kim and Jay dropped off in price. Guys, I'm gonna be completely honest. I'm not a huge fan of this SBC. I don't think he's gonna get very many upgrades. I don't think the card is that great. Now the good thing is you've got 11 days to decide. Same thing with the pie, right? I would rather work towards the pie and try to chip away at this than doing the Umtiti SBC because I feel like the pie has a lot better chance of upgrades, he's gonna look like a more usable card you'll be able to use him for longer than the Umtiti card who's already got so many other French center backs. Even Kalulu, right? Just go buy Kalulu for 87K. Yeah, it's not as cool, does an upgrade but I think you get a better card for the here and now and you don't have to wait for those upgrades like you will for an Umtiti card. So I'm not a huge fan of that but a lot of people are at 110K. You're seeing him affect other center backs on this game. Also, we had the mini release yesterday which was pretty uneventful besides a Fabian PSG card which is kind of crazy if you think about it. We've had so many PSG midfielders in the past couple of weeks. Fabian right now is about 360, 370K in the market, medium, medium work rates, decent card, upgrades for PSG. So a pretty big club being represented here. Representated, represented, what English TFA? Fabian representing PSG. So just again, think about all the PSG midfielders. Vettinia, Virati, we've had the Carlos Soler from the Showdown series and now we have this Fabian. A lot of PSG midfielders and I think that's gonna hurt his price a little bit but that is a live PSG card right there. So that was all the content yesterday how the market reacted accordingly. We'll talk about the market a bit more but let's speak about these foot fantasy cards and specifically investing in them because this is a question that a lot of people have been asking me about. I know a lot of you guys wanna know and it's something that I'm interested in too because last year we made millions off of the foot fantasy promo but this year it's just in a different time and the upgrades are not coming anytime soon and there's something going on with these upgrades that I wanna talk with you guys about because it even makes me like these cards a little bit less. But first let's talk about the pros. Why would these cards rise up out of packs? There are some nice cards in here and of course they are live and they have the potential to get a plus four, right? With all the upgrades taken into account all the ways they can upgrade it's a plus four potential for all of these cards and the thing that I like about it too is it's not just solely relying on a player's performance or a team's performance, it's a mixture of both. So if the player's not playing too great right at the beginning of the upgrade period, the team can still be doing good and then he can turn on and boom, then you've got multiple upgrades on a card as the player and the club both perform. That's the hope for a lot of these cards. So those are some positives, right? But some of the negatives are the timeline. We still have to wait such a long time, March 17th for when these guys are even able to get upgrades that's still over a week and a half. Basically it's 11 days from now is when we have the first games where these guys will potentially get their upgrades and the worst part about it is, let's take a look at Saliba for example, right? 1.2 million coins for the Saliba card right now. Yes, if Arsenal can satisfy all the upgrade criteria he's gonna be 93 rated and he's gonna be absolutely insane. Now the way they're gonna upgrade these cards in game it shows as plus one. This is not like they did with and are doing with the road to the finals. Remember the road to the finals like Felipe Anderson, Raspidore got plus twos it was a plus one inform upgrade. This looks to be like it's a plus one strictly. None of the cards that are low rated are gonna get a double boost cause they're lower rated. It's a straight up plus one and it might just be a plus one around every single stat on the card. So that's a little bit, I guess, not as fun or as hype for some of these upgrades. So that's one of the negatives I don't like. But then speaking of Arsenal's games again look at the schedules that you have and it's not just you look at a road to the final card and you're like, okay, yeah, these guys have potential to upgrade because their team could progress in the tournament, right? With these road to the final cards, it's pretty easy. Okay, you focus on the team and the wins and who they're playing and their matchups and stuff like that. But for these foot fantasy cards you've got individual performance that is put in there as well and when these games are being played. Look at Arsenal's schedule on the 17th, right? That's the magic day. How many games do they have around the 17th? Well, March 19th, okay, that's after the upgrade kind of window opens. They got one game against Crystal Palace but then look at their next game, April 1st. We have an international break period that is coming up after this next weekend which is when the first set of games will be played for these foot fantasy upgrades which basically from the 19th, the 17th, 17th of March all the way until the end of March there are going to be only that first weekend of games that could count for upgrades and then the leagues stop as they go on international break. That is a big downside for a lot of these cards especially as you think about foot birthdays going to be coming out, more cards are going to be dropping into the game, road to the final upgrades are going to be pushed live, a lot of other things are going to be going up. The power curve, new cards, road to the finals are going to be getting upgraded even as soon as this Friday and these cards are just going to be sitting stagnant out of packs, waiting for the potential to upgrade. So that makes me like these cards a lot less than I did especially and I'm going to mention it a lot of times with foot birthday and pending. Foot birthday is such a big problem I think there's going to be panic selling for it. That is a staple promo that people on FIFA look forward to every year. So personally, I think there are some cards from this team that will rise like Esauk is very interesting to me. He could, you know, get some goals. Newcastle haven't been in the greatest form but I mean still a week and a half away from these guys playing again who knows what could change, right? I think Scrinniar is one that a lot of people are investing in but I like that investment. Tremel I think for Union Berlin and where they're at right now in the Bundesliga is good. Sanchez, Alexis Sanchez, Marse they've been playing incredibly well and I think he himself was playing incredibly well. Potential upgrades there are looking very good. Saliba of course, but he's very expensive. Llorente, very expensive. So I just don't love investing in this team. Personally, I'm going to keep my coins liquid because trading on the rest of the market on this game with out of pack special cards with road to the finals has been so great especially since just getting back on the game this weekend for me. I'm going to stick to doing those sort of trades and flips and not trying to put my coins into a gamble with these fantasy cards. That's just how I'm feeling with them. Now with the heroes it's a little bit of a different story because the hero cards, I don't know if we're getting a team too. I mean, you look at the hero cards that we have, we just have a small list of just a few players but like are EA going to give more cards out as a part of team two? I don't know if they're going to do that or if they're just going to stop with this team one. If they're just going to stop with this team one then I like investing in these hero cards because heroes and special versions and upgraded versions of heroes, you think about the world cup cards, they have done really, really well out of packs. And if you also think about icons, right? World cup icons and team of your icons and think about team of your icons, they all exploded after team of the year. Limited time upgrades to these types of cards whether it's heroes or icons, do very, very well out of packs. I went back and looked through a lot of the world cup heroes and they rose the week after they were out of packs, literally all of them. So I think there's a lot more potential with these cards here than there is with the actual regular fantasy cards just because these are heroes, right? So, Ledley King was 430K earlier yesterday on Sunday. He's now 480,000 coins. Cordoba is constantly fluctuating between like 1.25 and 1.35. Right now he is 1.33 so he's up a little bit, right? Harry Kuhl I bought yesterday at 900, sold them all for like 960, sold the one at 930 to get out of it but 960 to 980 is where I sold a lot of these at. Right now I think he's like 950 or something like that. He's been in the low 900s. So I think these cards will be something to watch throughout the rest of this week but I would just be very careful investing in too many of them or investing in too many of the regular foot fantasy cards because we also don't have a ton of the big teams that have been represented. There's that word again, right? Represented by fantasy foot cards, right? We're missing Manchester United. We are missing Manchester City. We are missing a lot of top clubs from like Real Madrid. We are missing Barcelona. We're missing Bayern Munich. We're missing a lot of the major clubs from these different leagues. Hopefully team two brings us some better cards and if team two does bring us a lot of better fantasy foot cards that could also make the investment in team one a little bit less desirable. So I'm gonna steer clear of these cards just because I think it takes so long for them to get upgraded. We've got so much to happen between now and then and I just don't love the players that are getting released in this promo. So hopefully we see a better team too and we'll still trade with them, right? Like the heroes like I talked about, I'm looking at this Cordova. I'm looking at all of these cards. Esauk, I would love to try out. I think these cards could have some price movements. I just don't know if there's gonna be enough for me to wanna go all in on them like the road to the final. So a lot of words to get that point across right there but I would look to buy if you do wanna watch these cards. The heroes, you gotta watch them pretty soon because if this rest of the week is a slow content week, the low point for these cards might be even today. Sometimes we've seen it Mondays have been the low point for some promo cards in packs just because the rest of the week's content is not that good but we do have a team too upcoming with these cards and of course we do have probably some more leaks as well starting to come up later on this week. So I would believe that I would wait to buy these in my opinion, EA might have another party bag or sort of SBC like that up their sleeve as well. So maybe just put the pause button on investing in these right now especially with road to the finals bringing in the hype Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday of this week and then look towards like Thursday or maybe even the weekend if team two looks really good for an investing time on these cards. Now let's reign it back in. Let's talk about Monday content today because stock the club with the gold rares stock the club with the gold non-rares. They're basically all discard right now as they should be because there's really not any upgrade packs out at the moment. You can get these on bid for 350, 400 for the non-rares the rares that you can get at 650, 700 as well pretty cheap right stock that club because again like I said you know with an SBC like this 87 plus with player SBCs that are out maybe you're working on Play of the Month Ben Yetter maybe you're working on DePie I think it will be a good opportunity maybe Algebra as well. Today's upgrade packs give a great opportunity to try to open upgrade packs to just pack a lot of different cards like we talked about right these hero cards since they have a pack percentage remember like the world cup icons remember the team of the year icons right I packed team of the year icon Piro out of an upgrade pack because these cards since they have a pack percentage here in the store and since they are technically promo cards even though they are heroes they will be packable from whatever player picks or whatever upgrade packs we have today on Monday so I don't know if it's gonna be like an 80 plus player pick 81 plus double 81 times three right we have all of those in the code it could be any sort of different upgrade packs or player picks today that we get but I would assume that an unlimited repeatable one is gonna come out today so stock the club stock with the non-rares and the rares you've got man of the matches you have a team of the week with Messian you've got the heroes and the regular foot fantasy cards so a really good week this week to be opening up upgrade packs I don't know what else we're gonna get though today maybe some other sort of like gamble pack it's a small one maybe you know like an 82 times 10 or 83 times 10 it'll be kind of cool maybe it's gonna be a smaller one like an 83 double something along those lines I could see dropping today as well there's no other leaks for another player SPC right we've had to titty the pie and algebra so I don't know if we're gonna get another player SPC today but watch out for some other sort of upgrade packs dropping today on the game as we often see on Mondays now also let's talk market right because yesterday we saw some prices dropping like Nate you've obviously invested some coins I have right I feel pretty confident and how I feel the market is going to react to kind of the next day or so on this game it's been a common trend where Mondays we see a rise on prices on the market and that's been common just because people get their week in the grow wars they go out they buy cards they put together teams and they go start playing their division rivals games to get rewards they play their champs qualifier games now today it's different right because we have that week in league extension but we've had this happen before in the past and the market on a weekend league extension weeks where we still have weakening going on a Monday the market's still gone up on Mondays I think people still are used to getting their games done in kind of the same time frame so they just still go out and get their games done within the normal time they get their games and then of course since you can get your rewards at any time you can finish off your games and then get those rewards instantly so even though the schedule is different this week I am pretty confident that we'll see a bit of a rise on the market today which is why you've seen me pretty invested I feel like the market could rise today if all we gets a couple of upgrade packs and nothing too crazy I feel like it's gonna be a pretty good day for the market and prices will rise even if they don't rise too much in the morning I feel like they're gonna continue to rise later on after content today unless something crazy happens so I feel pretty good about the market today I think it'll be a great opportunity to be making coins, to be trading and if I see Milasi hit 370 I will buy another one or I will buy some more because that's really really low it's literally down like 80K from where he was I know he's very overpriced but it's Milasi, it's Manchester United Lynx and people still have leghorsed even though he's not getting upgraded that's still a card that a lot of people want to use so I see a lot of opportunity on the market some of the hero cards we were watching yesterday of course this quarter buzz out of packs I bought a couple of him at like 239 and 240 he's 246 right now he's out of packs because his foot fantasy version is in packs and he was panic sold yesterday with the center back Titty dropped and with the hero player pick being dropped and then I also was very interested in Al Oweirin I didn't buy one but he was like 815K some of the World Cup heroes and regular heroes that you saw drop in price yesterday like Dina Talle, Marquisio some of these guys I think will bounce back up very nicely I think Dina Talle was like 220 he's back up to like 238, 240 so a nice bounce back already starting to happen on the market I think that's going to continue today on a lot of cards not everywhere but on a lot of cards today I would expect the market to continue to do pretty well look at the team of the week as well the current team of the week that we have in this game is not like a crazy one I know we have Messi in here right Messi 697 probably going to rise up a little bit but some of these guys are decently priced for fodder in forums especially if you have more demand later on in the week and then you got I kind of like Phil Foden right Manchester City the cheapest Phil Foden special car with a dynamic image that we have all of his other cards are over 100K and 300K for his big boy card from the World Cup so this card at like 20K, 23K I bought a couple of them put on my trains for this I feel like that's a no-brainer, easy investment Zambal and Guisa good links there you've got a man of the match Truckee Lozano that's out right now with the links so I feel like this team of the week could be a slight investment opportunity as well just because I don't feel like a ton of people are opening tradable packs and doing the lightning rounds at the moment on this game now also with the market we have to watch with road to the finals because I expect these cards to also continue rising up as they have, right? Atal is now two nineties probably gonna be close to 300K very soon Phillips 660 he's rising, right? Raspberry still a little bit low I think that's from the pack yesterday Fofana is down a little bit because of Umtiti in the pack yesterday Nuno Menj is rising Malin is rising and a lot of these road to the finals are just doing more of that because we get closer and closer to these games and more upgrades and a lot of exciting times to be had probably this next week again, we're gonna talk about it more throughout this week but look to sell in the hype that is always a safe play that is always a smart play and if you really wanna gamble on it I would just wait to gamble until you actually see goals scored in the game like I'm gonna be closely watching Lucas more cause I hope my Tottenham Hossper can get a dub, right? And of course advance to the next round but I'm not gonna buy this most likely unless I see a massive undercut until a goal is actually scored in that game upcoming on Tuesday or Wednesday or Thursday for whatever player, whatever team you are watching out for so that's kind of where the market is right now road to the finals and a lot of stuff staying the same price or rising a lot of the rest of the market down a little bit but potentially rising up a bit more today into tomorrow unless EA have some other crazy ideas with the content, right? So again, just a little update here's the QL cards that I bought yesterday I got one out just to sell it and the other three I made pretty good profit on I bought some Debalas last night too at about 42 to 45K sold a lot of those for 50K, 51K and then yeah, this is the rest of the transfers right now at the moment just some random specials I got some crouch at like 266 I tried them out yesterday and it's the start of my week and then qualifiers fun card with the five star skills definitely gotta use them on an architect for the lengthy, fun card but that's about it, very, very kind of jammy but pretty clunky so I'm excited to try out some more cards this week and hopefully maybe EA have a little bit of an Easter egg surprise for us somewhere as a part of content today and some good upgrade packs so if you enjoyed today's video smash thumbs up on a comment level if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new it's been Nathan with Account and I'll see you guys on the stream today peace out.