Winter Wildcards
flatFriday, 18 December 2026 to Wednesday, 23 December 2026
A big promo with plenty of objectives and SBCs. Lots of new content, and plenty of new players join for the holidays.
What to do
Hold meta cards. Sell Winter Wildcards cards the moment you pack them.
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 -10.9 % on average. The percentages below were tested on cards that were not used to find the patterns.
- ▲Icon attackers: -5.9 %
- ▼Better left alone, cards on Fridays, well below their high: -21.6 %
- ▼Better left alone, cards on Fridays: -20.6 %
No buying strategy came out positive in this phase. The best move was to sit on your coins.
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) | -2 % / day |
| Team of the Week / inform | +1 % / day |
| Promo card | -1.5 % / day |
| Icon | -1.4 % / day |
| Hero | +0.3 % / day |