Ultimate Scream (Halloween)
fallingFriday, 23 October 2026 to Friday, 06 November 2026
The first big wave of content, with plenty of SBCs. Icons and Heroes steady out because fodder disappears into SBCs.
What to do
83+/84+ fodder is in demand now — hold highly rated gold cards (84–86) for the SBC waves. Halloween cards lose value once the pack week is over.
What actually worked in this phase
From the FC 26 season, every card from 5,000 coins up, bought and sold again after 7 days, after the 5 % EA tax. Buying at random in this phase returned -14.7 % on average. The percentages below were tested on cards that were not used to find the patterns.
- ▲Icon defenders: -6.6 %
- ▲Icons rated 91 and up: -8.6 %
- ▼Better left alone, attackers that lost more than 15 % the week before: -35.4 %
- ▼Better left alone, cards rated 85 to 87 that lost more than 15 % the week before: -23.9 %
No buying strategy came out positive in this phase. The best move was to sit on your coins.
Key dates
- Fri 23 Oct Ultimate Scream Team 1
- Fri 30 Oct Ultimate Scream Team 2
- Fri 6 Nov UEFA Primetime
Expected daily move by card type
Baseline for an 85–87 rated card with normal hype, before day-of-week patterns and events.
| Gold (standard) | -0.8 % / day |
| Gold meta (in demand) | -1.5 % / day |
| Team of the Week / inform | +0.5 % / day |
| Promo card | -1.2 % / day |
| Icon | -0.2 % / day |
| Hero | 0 % / day |