December Promos
flatFriday, 11 December 2026 to Thursday, 17 December 2026
Joga Bonito and Unbreakables (FC 26: 5 Dec and 12 Dec). The market is stable and Icons tick up slightly.
What to do
Keep trading the week. Start building positions for Christmas (meta cards 86–89).
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 -19.8 % on average. The percentages below were tested on cards that were not used to find the patterns.
- ▲cards on Tuesdays: -11.2 %
- ▲cards on Tuesdays that have been out for a long time: -11.2 %
- ▼Better left alone, cards on Saturdays, well below their high: -29.3 %
- ▼Better left alone, cards on Saturdays: -29 %
No buying strategy came out positive in this phase. The best move was to sit on your coins.
Key dates
- Fri 4 Dec Joga Bonito
- Fri 11 Dec Unbreakables
- Fri 18 Dec Winter Wildcards
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) | +1.4 % / day |
| Gold meta (in demand) | -2.6 % / day |
| Team of the Week / inform | -0.1 % / day |
| Promo card | -1.2 % / day |
| Icon | -2.7 % / day |
| Hero | +0.4 % / day |