Black Friday Weekend
falling hardFriday, 27 November 2026 to Monday, 30 November 2026
Lightning Rounds all day, Best of TOTW back in packs, flash SBCs. The classic market low of the first half of the season, usually Sunday or Monday.
What to do
Buy: Sunday evening and Monday have historically been the best entry. Pick up meta golds, Icons and Heroes with the coins you saved.
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 -2.2 % on average. The percentages below were tested on cards that were not used to find the patterns.
- ▲meta gold cards that lost more than 15 % the week before: +7 %
- ▲cards rated 85 to 87 that lost more than 15 % the week before: +5.1 %
Key dates
- Fri 27 Nov Black Friday
- Mon 30 Nov Cyber Monday
Market events in this phase
- Fri 27/11 Black Friday Lightning RoundsPacks by the minute, Best of Team of the Week back in packs.
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) | +1 % / day |
| Gold meta (in demand) | +3.8 % / day |
| Team of the Week / inform | -3 % / day |
| Promo card | -1.5 % / day |
| Icon | -0.1 % / day |
| Hero | -1 % / day |