Pre-TOTS Crash
falling hardFriday, 16 April 2027 to Thursday, 29 April 2027
Team of the Season is on the way. Gold cards fall towards discard value and autumn promo cards lose heavily.
What to do
Hold nothing except cards you play yourself. Stack coins for TOTS flips.
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 -0.9 % on average. The percentages below were tested on cards that were not used to find the patterns.
- ▲meta gold cards rated 88 to 90: +4.4 %
- ▲cards rated 88 to 90 on Thursdays: +4.3 %
- ▼Better left alone, Icons that gained more than 15 % the week before: -15.3 %
- ▼Better left alone, cards that gained more than 15 % the week before: -10.5 %
Key dates
- Fri 23 Apr Community/Mixed TOTS (expected)
Market events in this phase
- Fri 23/04 Community TOTSTeam of the Season begins; gold cards fall towards discard value.
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) | +2.1 % / day |
| Gold meta (in demand) | +3.7 % / day |
| Team of the Week / inform | +2.1 % / day |
| Promo card | -2.5 % / day |
| Icon | +0.6 % / day |
| Hero | -2 % / day |