Hello friends and welcome to another episode here on the channel. We're trying something different today other than having the facecam. I thought I'd just throw up a few games that I did with the team that we're featuring today prior to actually recording the main episode with the rental team. Now the rental team will be up at the end of the episode as always, but I thought you would enjoy a few more games with this team just to see a few more aspects of it, see the runnings of it and some of the other elements that we didn't get to see in our kind of main episode that we've already thrown up. Just to recap the team is based around Reggie Rock with that landerous theory in the Cortana Reggie Rock, the Glaring Moltres, Tug of Tomorrow and Tabu Finney. So we've got a lot of different modes within this team. Obviously Reggie Rock is a centerpiece to the team. It is the Pokemon that I was kind of showcasing in this episode, but we do have some nice other modes there. Obviously with the Tug of Tomorrow and the Glaring Moltres, we have that weakness policy that you can activate on the Moltres with the Vault Switch from Tug of Tomorrow, whilst also protecting it with its lightning rodability from really dangerous threats, things like Reggie Lecky, Tabu Coco and Thunder's theory in form in this format. So as you can see, we're going to go straight into our first game here. We've led off with Tug of Tomorrow and our Glaring Moltres. We're seeing the Whimsicott and the Zapdos. Now the Whimsicott is going to feel threatened here from potential fake out. The Zapdos does threaten our Tug of Tomorrow course with a stab fighting attack, but I feel like you've got the opportunity here to max with Moltres, take down the Zapdos and also go for that Vault Switch into it, propping the weakness policy at the same time. So it's a little bit like what you've seen maybe other teams that we featured where you are propping the weakness policy yourself, but I feel like Tug of Tomorrow really does this job, probably better than most Pokemon that we've got available in the format. And you can see my opponents here threaten from that fake out from the Tug of Tomorrow, switching it straight out and bring that Taranataur in, which isn't really the greatest Pokemon coming in here for us, but we are going to go for that Vault Switch and the Max Airstream into the Zapdos. So if we can remove the Zapdos, it makes things a little bit easier for us going forward in this game, especially with Tug of Tomorrow and a few of the other options that we've got in the back. So as we see the Zapdos actually not wanting to stay on the field, it is faster than both our Pokemon. Obviously with that base 100 speed stat that it does have there. And we are going to see the Excadrill come out onto the field. Now this isn't the best for us, honestly, because obviously with the Sand Stream ability, the Sand Rush ability that the Excadrill does have access to, will mean that it is going to outspeed Maltras this next turn, even if we get a Max Airstream off. Now we do get to retreat the Tug of Tomorrow with the Vault Switch, proc the weakness policy at the same time, which is really nice. And it does allow us to get Landerous onto the field, which is perfect for us. Now we can intimidate both of the Excadrill and the Taranataur on my opponent's side of the field. Put them down to minus one, meaning they're not going to be able to threaten outside of the field as heavily as they would have before this. Now we do get the Airstream off, and it does an absolute chunk of damage into this Excadrill. Obviously it has a resisted attack, but plus two special attack from Maltras, absolutely destroying it and pretty much putting it out of reach of my opponent, going for the Max this next turn, which is extremely good for us. Now we do threaten with Earthquake, obviously from our Landerous. It's plus one as well at the moment, so acting almost like a scarf Pokemon. And Taranataur is going to be very difficult to take down. You can imagine my opponent is probably going to max it here, but at the same time, you've got to think that the Taranataur probably thinks, well, I think the Maltras is very threatened here. It's probably going to max guard. So let's go after maybe the Landerous here, rather than going after the Maltras.  I try and get some damage onto the Taranataur, and it's more at this point about reducing the special defense of the Taranataur more than anything else with the Max darkness. Don't need to worry about the extra drill too much, as they say. It's so weak at the moment. Landerous is going to put a lot of pressure onto it. It's not likely it was going to max anyway. So we can freely just Earthquake here and then pick up the knock out there and do some nice damage to the Taranataur at the same time. So we do see the extra drill actually switch out for the Zapdos, which is nice coming in there for my opponent. It's a nice play. They're going to be immune to the Earthquake, but it does proc the weakness policy on the Taranataur like we suspected. It does put the Taranataur back to plus one attack after the Intimidate drop that we initially put on with the Landerous. And we go for that Max darkness into the Taranataur and you can see how thick this Taranataur is, even with plus two special attack from the Maltras, still not doing anything in this sandstorm. Now the Defying ability does proc on the Zapdos, but I'm not too concerned about that right now. As we see just a Max knock will come out from the Taranataur and it is into our Maltras. We are able to take that obviously. This does put the Taranataur now back up to plus two. Now it is getting a little bit more threatening here going forward, but we do have our Berserk ability active now with our Maltras because of that drop below 50%. We are plus one speed with our Maltras and plus one speed with our Landerous. So we're not in the worst spot at all. So we go for another Earthquake here and go for another Max Airstream into the Zapdos. And I still think my opponent's probably feeling a little bit like, well the Maltras is in such an awkward position now. We could attack into that, but it may Max Guard and I think probably the Max Guard here isn't the worst play in the world because the Taranataur can just pick up the clean knockout onto Maltras. Now whether or not it can pick up the knockout onto Landerous is another thing, but at the same time we just need to get damage onto this Taranataur. So what we try and do is we go for the Max Airstream into the Galerians Zapdos while we've got the opportunity to because obviously the Earthquake isn't going to be able to take it down or touch it because of its flying type attack. We get enough damage into that Taranataur as well, which is perfect. Get another Airstream, which will mean that now if the extra roll does come back in, we are going to be able to outspeed it even in the sandstorm because we're kind of matching that speed boost that it's got there. So you can see the Landerous putting the Taranataur in a little bit of an awkward spot now because once it's not Maxed anymore, it's going to be able to go down pretty easily to most attacks. So you see a Max Darkness come out from the Taranataur into the Landerous and take it down. So yeah, I'm probably predicting there that we're going to go for the Max Guard. Now we are in our last turn of our Max turn, so you've got to assume that Maltras will go down this next turn because the Taranataur still got one more turn to go in this battle. Now we do bring Togodomoro in, which is great news for us now that the Wims are coming back onto the field and it's probably going to go for the Tailwind. Now how it switched out earlier on, you would assume that it probably doesn't carry protect. You've got to worry about helping hand, of course, because that is another option to get around the Faker potentially here. But I think one thing that we want to try and do is just get as much damage onto Taranataur. It's risky going for a Hurricane here if we're Maltras. And so I think that the Dark type attack here is probably the better option just to get damage onto the T-Taur. It's not going to do much damage, but we are plus three. We've got our Berserk, our Weakness Policy proc, and it will do enough damage to the Whimsicot, I feel, at this point, so we can fake it out and maybe put it in range to pick it up the next turn. So we do get that fake out, stop the Whimsicot going for that Tailwind, which is very useful, the Firey Wrath coming out, doing a decent amount to the Taranataur and the Whimsicot. As we see, actually just another Max Knuckle here from the Taranataur, which is great into the Togodamaru here. And it will take it down to its sash, but that's perfectly fine with us because now, even if that Taranataur gets the Tailwind up this next turn, we're going to be able to get a Firey Wrath off. Again, pick up the Knockout onto the Taranataur. It's not going to be Maxed anymore, and also we'll be able to get the Knockout onto the Whimsicot. So that's really good news for us. Now the Whimsicot is kind of locked here where it can't Moonblast because we outspeed it. And if it goes for Tailwind, then we get the Firey Wrath off. So we're in a phenomenal spot right now with just our Maltres. And even though this team is really based and centered around that Reggie Rock, this is a really good example to show you how the other elements of this team can perform as well. You know, the Togodamaru-Maltres combination is such a strong pairing. And I feel like this is a very good example against a pretty hard matchup in all accounts where it's doing very well. Now the Taranataur here just wanted to stall out and actually get the Tailwind up, guaranteed with the Whimsicot as we do see that set now. But we are going to get a Firey Wrath which will just take down the Whimsicot. And even with the Excadrill coming in, because the sandstorm is ending this next turn, the Maltres will still be able to outspeed the Excadrill in the Tailwind. So this kind of all plays together for us right at the end of this game where we are able to kind of deal with everything on my opponent's side with just the Maltres and the Togodamaru for the most part. The Landeros obviously did help with the Intimidate but for everything else. I think my opponent really missed a lot of opportunities to deal with the Maltres, maybe predicting that we were max guarding when we weren't. And I think playing more aggressively in this match really paid off for us. As you can see now, the Firey Wrath is going to be able to just clean up the Tyranitar and the Excadrill pretty easily and that takes us to a nice victory to kick us off in today's episode. So our next opponent up is playing a team of Cinderace, the Tapulele, Tornades, Bisharp, Toxicity and the Dracovish. So this one's going to be quite a nice one, I feel for Regirock to come in and do some work. There's not too many things on my opponent's team that really threaten the Regirock other than probably the Dracovish. Obviously the Tapulele can be threatening. Regirock not the strongest on the special defensive side, but it can take the Psychex and we do have our own terrain that we can disrupt their Psychec terrain with with Tapufini. So as you can see in this match, I was really worried about the Dracovish, probably more than anything and obviously a Tapulele lead as well. Normally Tapulele are a lot faster than Tapufini, so it's safe for us in this situation to lead off with Tapufini to override the Psychec terrain. And at the same time, we also do kind of put off the Dracovish from doing very much damage if it does lead like we're seeing here. So the Tapufini we're in a nice position. We can stop a potential tailwind from this Tornades here with Faker from the Togo Damaro and just throw a Moonblast out onto the Dracovish. And the thing by going for the Moonblast here into the Dracovish slot, even if it switches out like we are seeing now, you get the potential to do some nice damage onto something coming in and it is that Tapulele is going to override the terrain on the field to the terrain. The Psychec terrain activating, but because Tornades isn't on the ground, it's not affected by the terrain. We do see it proc that Psychec seed, but it is going to be susceptible to Faker because obviously they're not grounded. It is not going to be affected by the Psychec terrain as we are going to get a nice bit of damage off with our Tapufini into the Lele. Now we don't get the special attack drop which would have been really nice there, but we're still not in a bad spot. Now what we could do here is Volt switch out or Nuzzle with our Togromaru into the Tapulele and then switch out our Fini because we need to get Fini off the field to bring it back onto the field to reset our terrain.  The Tornades here is going to have the opportunity to get a Tailwind up and put that Tapulele into an incredible spot. And thankfully because of the DLC Tapulele didn't get Expanding Force because that would have just been such a horrible Pokemon to deal with. It has to only rely on Psychec or Psychec now which is probably good for us in this situation. Now we do see the Tailwind set up there from the Tornades. We get the Psychec attack into Alandris. Now because we've got the Assault Fest there it means we are able to take that quite comfortably which is great for us. We get the Nuzzle off which kind of nullifies the Tailwind from my opponent onto that Tapulele at least for the longevity of this Tailwind whenever it's out on the field. Now we can go for a Vault Switch here. I think we do that with Togodomaru. We want to try and reposition and also go for a U-turn as well with Alandris. It's a good time now to try and get Regi Rock onto the field. We can overwrite the Psychec terrain with that Tapufini and just lure the attack power of the Psychecs from the Tapulele in general which is also a nice option but we do see an icy wind come out from the Tornadis. Now just because of the Assault Fest because of the damage that we've taken prior to that with the Alandris we aren't actually able to take it from the Tornadis which means Alandris does go down unfortunately the Psychec coming out into the Togodomaru. We are able to get the Vault Switch off with our Togodomaru do some nice damage into the Tornadis get our Tapufini back onto the field and it does mean now that we can get Regi Rock onto the field for free. We're not bringing it in on any damage and that's the perfect situation you want for Regi Rock most of the time. So we can get it in now bear in mind that my opponent still has their Max available to them but we want to start kind of taking advantage of that right now. We're going to lock in and go for a Moonblast into the Tapulele and rather than Max ourselves I think we're just going to go for a Rock Slide here. We want to kind of wait till if we can get rid of the Tornadis and the Tapulele here with a Moonblast Rock Slide combination then it makes things a lot easier for us for the rest of this game where we've still got our Max when our opponent brings theirs onto the field. So we see an air slash the Tornadis trying to probably flinch the Tapufini here but not going to be quite enough so you do see the double up into it there leaving the Regi Rock alone which is ideal for us right now. We don't flinch thankfully get enough damage into it with the Moonblast but Tapulele avoids the Rock Slide we could have really done with that there because when we clear the field making things a lot more easier for us going into the latter stages of this game. Now we do take the Tornadis down and you've got to expect maybe the Draker Fish to come back onto the field now for my opponent. They haven't got too many turns of Tailwind left but we really need to be careful with Tapufini here. They don't actually bring out the Draker Fish reveal their fourth Pokemon in Cinderace so we need to be mindful like I was saying the Tapufini is very important for us in this match so I think one thing to consider here is if we can protect our Tapufini as much as possible and then keep it for the Draker Fish in the late game it will help us out a bunch because otherwise we will struggle against the Draker Fish with those very powerful vicious Wrens that it can throw out. So we're going to take this opportunity to finally max our Regi Rock and locking in with a Max Knuckle just to get an attack boost onto it early on. Now we are seeing the Cinderace on my opponent's end Max as well so we do have to kind of deal with that but by protecting Tapufini here it means we stole out at least the last turn of Tailwind we can get some nice damage onto the Cinderace here as well and Tapufini will be able to stick around for this next turn like we've just been talking about it's quite important that we keep it for at least the Draker Fish match up later on in this game without lurking in the back still so we are actually going to be able to see finally Regi Rock Max for this episode which is really good and we can see it in action here and now thankfully actually really good that we did go for the Max Knuckle into that Cinderace because it targets down the Tapufini with a Max Strike which they're trying to reduce the speed start on our side of the field and obviously pick up the knockout onto Tapufini as well but because we did protect it just means we are able to take that and they actually proc our Wikiberry which gives us a bunch of health back making the end game versus the Draker Fish a lot easier right now so we do see a Sidekick come out from the Tapulele does go into the Regi Rock but we do take that pretty comfortably and the Max Knuckle now coming out into that Cinderace we don't manage to pick up the knockout but we do get a plus one in our attack stat meaning that Regi Rock is going to now start being able to hit very very hard so we do have the leftovers on there as well which makes it incredibly good and incredibly annoying for my opponent to deal with now we've got an option here where we could keep the Tapufini in but it's probably better like we've been saying this whole kind of theme of this match is keeping Tapufini around till the late game so we're going to switch it out and kind of use Togodomoro's fodder here just to come in and take an attack we then go for the Max Rockfall into the Cinderace here and that plus one Max Rockfall should be enough to get the Cinderace and also throw up the Sandstorm as well to mean that Tapulele is going to start to be chipped down as well it's so low health that probably only needs two rounds of Sand Chip to go down and then we've only got that Draker Fish to worry about in the late game and you can see we do switch out the Tapulele here the Togodomoro coming onto the field just as fodder really it means that we just are able to deal with the Cinderace we can lose our Togodomoro which is fine Reggie Rock doesn't really care about its speed stat it's going to be the slowest thing on the field anyway in comparison to what my opponent's bringing and we get pretty fortunate here that Nuzzle that we put onto the Tapulele earlier comes into effect leaving the Tapulele fully paralyzed which is amazing and allows us to pick up a clean knockout onto the Cinderace meaning that we've only got the Draker Fish and the Tapulele to deal with now so as you can see the Draker Fish comes onto the field now this is still a little bit tricky but I think we're not on a bad spot to be honest we just need to make sure that we go for a double up into the Draker Fish at this point Moon Blast and a Max Rockfall either one will be able to take down this Draker Fish from this point and they can only really attack one or the other with Draker Fish and I don't think the Fishes Rend would be able to get the Regirock from this range if they do target into the Tapufinio unfortunately so we do lose it there as we see we take a psychic but so comfortably from this point from the Tapulele you get that Max Rockfall into the Draker Fish and it is going to be more than enough it plus one to take down the Draker Fish and Regirock going to be able to deal with this Tapulele quite easily even when we aren't maxed and the sand is up at this point as well we're getting a little bit of recovery back through our leftovers and I think this match is quite nice just to show how much of a tank Regirock can be and you know it's kind of single-handedly almost won this match by itself we can't obviously take away from how much work the Tapufinio and the Tobidomoro and other members of the team have done but Regirock just able to single-handedly pretty much knock out most Pokemon of my opponent's team which is really nice so so we go on to our next game and this is going to be against Hitran Ryperia, Dustclops, Galarian Moltres, Clefable and Tapu Coco so for the rest of this episode what I'm going to do is just speed these games up you guys can enjoy them there are going to be three more games and then the rental team will be at the end of the episode so I hope you do enjoy the rest of the games hope you enjoy the team if you've been featuring it and also let me know down in the comments if this content is something you'd like to see more of with extended games and things like that I do practice with the teams that I put together for the channel anyway so these are something I can put together and it just gives you a bit more of an in-depth look at the teams and maybe how some of the other elements of the team that we couldn't cover initially do get to feature and you can sit back now enjoy the rest of the games and I'll see you all for another episode soon so until then take care and bye bye


Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Winter Wild Cards has been a fantastic promo this past week, and it's not done yet. Today, we are going to have team number two. EA has confirmed that we're getting a second team of Winter Wild Cards. We have some leaks from like 10 days ago, but we really don't know who's going to be in packs today. We just hope that some of those guys that were leaked a while ago are going to end up being in packs today. So there is a lot to discuss about the leaks for today and how those leaks could impact the market, because I really think that how insane the leaks look today, because I mean, let's be honest guys, Friday morning is always a time where we're getting a lot of stuff tweeted out in terms of leaks, players are going to be in packs. I expect that today, but how good those leaks look will probably impact how the market moves today. If the leaks look really good, there could be some panic selling, and that's what I want to talk about with the market today as well. Could be a very interesting day on the market, as most of the market right now is still very, very high as a lot of people are buying teams, playing Weekend League with that extra demand for the Weekend League this weekend with so many more people able to play because they were gifted the qualification points. That's really impacting the market a lot as we see with prices being up. So there is a lot to talk about today, especially this winter best of, what in the world is going to go on? Are these cards staying in packs? Are they going away from packs? There's a lot to talk about today. So if you're excited for Winter Wild Cards Team 2, hit the thumbs up, subscribe if you're new. Let's start from the top and talk about Winter Wild Cards Team Number 2 and then we'll go through everything else related to the market and even look back at yesterday's content a little bit as well. The only thing we know about Winter Wild Cards is that EA said there's going to be a Team 2 on, well today, December 30th, the last promo of the year. We can pull out all of those. It's the last time of the year that we're going to have this jokes and stuff like that. Now these are the leaks that we had a couple of weeks ago, basically a week and a half. Alan St. Maxim, we've talked about these. You guys might remember these, but just to roll through them really fast, there are some big name players in here, right? Alan St. Maxim, one of the most hyped, Benzema, right? Some people think that this might be our SBC player. Personally, no SBC has been as big as this Benzema so far during Winter Wild Cards. I think it'd be a bit too big to drop this guy as an SBC. I mean, I could be completely wrong. I'd love to be wrong. A Benzema SBC would be nutty, but I feel like this is going to be a card in packs as a part of the promo team. That's a card that has been leaked. Robertson with five stars skill moves, right? There might be a new best, Prem left back in town. That'd be a fun card a lot of people would like to use. Of course, also in the Premier League, we have an Adama, Trail Ray, four star, four star. A lot of pace in this card, right? Kind of reminds me of that Dan James, but it's Adama. So he's got some extra hype there. Prem Strikers maybe take a hit because this guy dropping in the game today. We'll have to see. Kibbage, this is one that I'd be excited to try out. Really, really good card in game. I know he's going to be cheap because 76 pace, he's going to end up being a bit cheap, but that card looks really interesting to me and then of course we have another very highly touted league, Veran. Stats expected, doesn't look that nuts, right? But still looks very good and it's a Veran special card, one we have not seen yet this year. So these are all cards that we maybe expect to see today, but again, without a loading screen, without a lot of information, we are just left asking the question, who in the world is going to be in PAX today, right? Those leaks and nothing else from a week and a half ago really tell us, I mean, we don't really know. Like that's just the confusion of today, what is going to be in PAX? And that's why I really think that the leaks today, whether Footsharev comes out and the leakers on Twitter come out and say that the same cards that were leaked a little while ago are going to be the ones in PAX today if they say that or if they start throwing out some new and different names. I mean, the cards that we have leaked, how many cards would we just look at? Like what, six, seven different cards? That's like less than half of a promo team. So hopefully today we get a lot more leaks and a lot more big name players because I would love for Winter Wild Cards too to be just as hyped as Team One. And let's be honest, that's how it was last year as well. Team Two was really, really hyped just like Team One was as well. Now, the other things that we maybe know about today, oh, there's one card I didn't show you guys, this Malikovic Savage Goalkeeper card, Serial Goalkeeper with 99 speed. That's one of our other 99 stats that we're expecting to see today. We do know about one of our objectives, I believe, and that was FootSheriff tweeted the Ahmed Musa objective card that was supposed to be a part of content today. That was leaked a while ago, guys. I have to scroll so far back. Maybe this is gonna be one of our SBC players today. Belagarde, that it could be a fun sheep. French Center mid, that EA could drop in the game. Of course, this SBC is one we've been looking out for and so is the Eric Baye SBC. I feel like I've been asking for the Eric Baye, like EA, I kind of want this to drop. I want to see how it impacts the game because I feel like a lot of people would want to do this to link to Payet, to Gen Duzzi, stuff like that.  One of the coolest things I've seen EA do in a hot minute. Who knows what the SBC content could be today as well. So again, really, I know I don't like saying this, but the leaks today, and I don't like focusing on leaks so much, but the leaks today are going to be the main point of panic and just the main point of how the market moves today because if the leaks look really, really insane, you're gonna start to see people sell off cards and I think that could create a really good window to maybe buy some cards and to maybe flip some cards. I have a couple promo items still that I have invested in right now, hoping for a quick flip for a short rise. I think that with a lot of the market being as high as it is, including these Winter Wild Cards, from Team One that are gonna be going out of packs, wow, Conte just hit 920, talk about some rarity. I mean guys, these cards are already starting to rise as we get towards the end of the week just because that's how the whole market is going, but a lot of this market is just so high, right? Kane was 180,000 coins yesterday. Diego D'Alo 160, Casimiro 187, you look through some of these older promos, the cards just keep going up. Kamma Vinga exploded yesterday. Pedri is even going higher. Hakimi just keeps going higher. Genduzi 174, right? So for a lot of these cards that are out of packs that just keep going up and up and up on the market, watch for some panic selling today if there are some hype new cards that are dropped with all the leaks and probably some of the Friday chaos that usually goes on. I think that it's gonna be a really, really good opportunity today to trade on cards that are being panic sold before the content drop today, buying them a little early, maybe even before 6 p.m. content, whether it's Winter Wild Cards, like we said, whether it's some of these promo cards, maybe you look at some like Path to Glories that are pretty rare, maybe it's like a Goretzka, maybe it's a Kyle Walker 685, stuff like that. I think if you see good panic selling today, you might have an opportunity to buy it and then sell it later on in the evening after prices maybe start to rise back up a little bit because again, that's the one thing we've been talking about all week is there is game play demand. So if you have your team right now and you're like, Nate, should I be selling my team? Again, the only risk right now is they dropped some really, really insane leaks today and people start to panic sell because like, oh my goodness, I'm gonna sell what I have because what is about to be dropping this game looks absolutely nuts, right? That's the only risk that you have in not selling your team. So if you wanna take the cash on stuff that is up, you can, but then again, you need those leaks to come out to get yourself some good opportunities to make coins and to buy cards at a lower price in that panic later on to today. So that's kind of the risk, right? We're just waiting to see what EA is gonna do with content and decide whether it's gonna be a hype day or not. Remember, we've had so many Fridays this year where the content has not been that hyped, where right now it feels like there's not a lot of hype for tomorrow just because we don't have a lot of information, we don't have a lot of leaks, but there's been so many times where it's not been that hype and other players that get panic sold or from the most recent promo team just explode in price because people are like, all right, this new stuff is just mid, I'm gonna go back out and buy stuff that I know is good from one of the most recent promos. So it's gonna be a very, very interesting market day, but I think it's gonna be a fantastic day to make coins on this market. Now, the stuff that I would watch out for is, again, your normal stuff, like guys, there is going to be supply today, right? We're gonna get the landing rounds. We are going to be getting the store packs. I would be probably expecting another token in the store today as well, right? We mentioned at the beginning of the video. Last week on Friday, I'm pretty sure they dropped three token packs. They dropped, or three tokens for Winter Wildcards. I'm pretty sure they dropped one in Objectives, in SBC, and one in the store. And if they do that again today on Friday, which I personally think they might do, that would take us all the way up to 20 total tokens. We are on 17 right now, and including the store pack from last week, we are on 17 tokens in total. That also includes the pack that's in the moment store. So for people that wanna do the 83 times 75 as we're calling it, today might be the first potential to get that, if EA are nice enough to release three tokens for us. And that will be so nice for people that are crafting, Giorzino, crafting all these great SBCs that are out right now. So moral of the story is, there will be supply today. There will be landing rounds, there will probably be store pack. Could they introduce that 500K store pack again? Maybe, I think there's only like one card from the pack code that was added a couple of weeks ago, like that 84 rated pack with 10 rare golds and an all intradable, the Icebreaker pack. I don't remember seeing that, maybe they've dropped it, but we're probably gonna have that, maybe the Snowstorm pack, maybe that Winter Special pack will be back this weekend, just because EA know they can make some money off of that. So I would say watch out for that sort of thing as well in the store. There will definitely be supply, but again, I do think there will be a nice bounce back on the market just because there will be so many people playing Weekend League, and there's so much demand there. And that's again, the reason why the market has been so high this week, because everybody or at least a lot more people have opportunities to play in the Weekend League right now with the way that EA gave out those tokens. So that's kind of what I'm looking for today is that panic. Hopefully we have some opportunities to buy and to trade today, or some opportunities to get cards for your team at a low price, see them rise into the night on Friday tonight. Now, let's talk about fodder a little bit too, because we said there's some demand for SBCs and crafting, and fodder, I would expect to drop a little bit today, I would. I think you're 83s that are still a bit inflated with tradable supply here in the game today. I think you'll see fodder probably drop a little bit around the content time.  Well, the SBCs that everybody wants to do right now are gonna look cheaper. I mean, let's say fodder drops today in some of your 91 rated cards like Benzema, who may be out of packs, but Levendosky, let's say he goes down to like 51,000 coins, that's gonna make this Jarzinio SBC drop a considerable amount in value. Like imagine fodder goes down enough today for this Jarzinio to be like 900K flat in terms of the price to craft him from scratch. That's gonna make a lot more people wanna go out and do a card like this, especially since they probably opened packs and got some more cards in their club anyway. People are gonna be getting player picks from objectives and rewards. So if fodder goes low today in the first couple hours after content, feel free to stash it. I mean, not expecting huge gains the next day or two, but that might be one of the best times to buy fodder this weekend earlier rather than later just because, again, we're just gonna be getting more SBCs and a lot of people are crafting, more people will be getting their swap tokens and their fodder packs by the end of the weekend. So I think an earlier investment today on fodder if it drops in the first couple hours might be the place to go with the fodder. Now, speaking of the last thing regarding packs, regarding stuff in the store, these Winter Best of Cards. And just like we think about the Winter Wild Cards for an out-of-pack investment like we talked about yesterday, I like a lot of those cards. They are continuing to rise up a bit right now. If there's panic today, we like those. If the Winter Best of Packs, and I don't even know if we're gonna know this today until the content drop, but if these guys are going out of packs, some of those cards I think have incredible opportunities to rise out of packs as well. I mean, I think about this in Cuckoo Card, who was 1.9 million coins. Right now, he's 1.7, well, low 1.7s, right? Even on the cheaper end of things, I think of like Alessandro Martinez as a Manchester United links guy with a lot of Manchester United cards that are gonna be coming into the game with this Varan. You know, we've got some other man new cards recently like the Dallow, the Casamiro, and stuff like that.  Argentina links are still hype. Could this rise up out of packs? Absolutely, Pulisic, right? I was able to pack one from my 85 times 10, but this card was like 70,000 coins before he went back into packs. Pulisic right now is like 38K and rising. He was down all the way at like 35,000 coins yesterday. So if these guys are not in packs and they're leaving packs today, some of them will definitely rise back up in value. Now the only problem is if they are in packs again today, they are going to get hit with a lot more supply and they are probably going to drop and get panic sold a lot more. But it just seems like EA would take them out of packs today. Could they potentially release another best of? There's potential for that. They could put in the newer version of Messi, the newer version of Mbappe, different path to glory cards, maybe like Vinny Jr. or Kyle Walker, maybe different phenoms like Militão or Jude Bellingham. They could do something along those lines today as well, but just a reminder, the winter best of last week dropped on Christmas Sunday. So maybe they don't drop another best of until this coming Sunday, the first of the year. We will just have to see, but that's a big part of the market today. That could impact a lot of card prices and still so confusing because we have no information about this. All they say is they're now available in packs. They don't tell us how long, they don't tell us what cards. It's mad annoying and I hope this is the only time that it ever happens and hopefully nobody gets burned by EA putting different cards in packs today if they do that or later on this weekend. Yeah, that would just be a huge situation. So I'll try to tweet out, of course, if we see there's new cards in packs, especially on the weekend, I'll try to tweet out and say, hey guys, like this is happening once again, like I did last week. So you see those cards and what's in packs and then it's just one of those things that you can't control, but sometimes people lose a lot of coins because that stuff is happening and EA make those decisions that they do. So it's gonna be a very interesting day of content today on a Friday for sure because we just don't know a lot right now. Now, a couple of things to talk about stuff that happened yesterday on this game. We have to talk about this a little bit. First of all, we all got gifted a free Pelé Tifo which is a big W move from EA Sports. I've got it equipped. I think if you go on the market, even if you take a look at like the Santos and the Brazilian kids, a lot of this stuff is extinct.  And it's nice to see EA honor him in this way and give us all the Pelé Tifo. Make sure you activate that. Make sure you're active Tifo. Show some love in the community. You're gonna see a lot of people with that Tifo this weekend. So that's a nice gesture from EA. A little pop-up message showed up in game. Some people was like, yeah, you know, drop a Pelé SBC but it's, you know, maybe at some point during the year that'd be fantastic. But for right now, I think that was a nice gesture from EA so that we can kind of show some love and support. Now, I have to mention this because we covered the market. These Pelé cards on the game, there was a mass rush to go and buy Pelé on the market yesterday. Now, you can question the motives of everybody that did this yesterday for sure, but it's just tough, right? It's really, really tough to point fingers and say like, hey, why'd you do this? Or hey, this was a terrible thing to do. Because whenever this happens, I mean, we've had it happen a couple of times now, right? Most recently when Maradona passed away, you saw people go to the market and buy Maradona's cards and his cards flew up in price. What happens is that people fear that he's no longer gonna be in packs and he's no longer gonna be in the game. They're gonna remove him from the game. So they wanna buy him and have him in their team so that they can use him, right? So this Pelé base card was 2 million coins, 1.9 before the news broke. And when the news broke, this Pelé actually sold at 2.7 million. He went all the way up there. He went back down to 2 million. Right now, he's still a bit up in price, but not super duper inflated. Now again, to my knowledge, the Maradona situation was its own thing, right? It all comes down to the rights, right? It doesn't just mean that since Pelé is unfortunately passed away, that his cards are not gonna be in packs anymore. That is not what that means at all. It just comes down to the rights. And if the people that own the rights to Pelé say they would like to keep them in the game, then they'll stay. But with Maradona, there was an issue where they did not want that or there was a mix up or whatever. And so Maradona wasn't removed from packs. If you guys remember that a couple of years ago, I, again, we don't know until EA says something about it. So I would not fear right now that Pelé will be taken off of the game. If we start to hear rumors about something changing, then it is what it is. But a lot of people are also going out to the market and wanting to use Pelé because I've never used the Pelé card in any FIFA ever. Besides, I don't even think I've ever tried a Pelé card out. So there's even a little bit, now I'm like, man, it would be fun to try out Pelé and just to try one of his cards out because I've never been able to use one before and kind of to honor him in a way. So that would be something that I would be interested in. I'm not buying one of those cards right now, but that's I think why a lot of the prices rose yesterday and there's extra demand for his card now is because people just want to use his card, right? They want to feel that connection even though he is not with this year anymore. So I just want to talk about the situation a little bit, but I do know there was plenty of people that were making profit off of this Pelé yesterday and that's kind of their own decision, right? We can't control that, but they knew there was going to be people rushing to the market to buy that card and those price fluctuations did happen. So it should quiet down a little bit this weekend but just to kind of share some light on that Pelé situation, I want to talk about that. Now also yesterday we had another icon SBC with Maldini, which is a W value icon once again. I know it's the base version of Maldini. Some people will say this card's outdated. Whatever it is for you, this card made centerbacks drop yesterday. So there is demand for this Maldini. If you go and take a look at some centerbacks, stuff went down, Cordova went down. A lot of your Siria centerbacks went down because of the Italy links, I think. And this card is coming in. He was 400,000 coins in the market even after being panic sold yesterday. This SBC is coming in at a very good price of 300,000 coins, a little bit less than that. So easy to craft as is the Giorzino. So big W from EA on the price of the Maldini. And then also yesterday, probably one of the coolest SBCs that we have seen EA do in a long time. Maxime Hullet, Rude Hullet's son, basically they mirrored his base icon card. It's the exact same card that they gave his son Hullet. If you take a look, it's actually uncanny. It's hilarious. The same overall rating, the same alternate positions, the same everything, except for the in-game stats are different, right? Even they boosted him to a three-star skill moves, five-star weak foot, just like Rude Hullet's card is. So the only thing that's different are the traits and the in-game stats. But it's so cool, right? To have this card for 30,000 coins. And you've got a lot of air-divisive links rising in price because of this. Specifically, Gakpo. Now Gakpo is already up because of the transfer to Liverpool. And people thinking that this card might upgrade to a Liverpool card, which it definitely will not, but just hype around the transfer in general. This card exploded yesterday. Rose to about 60K was getting listed, listed, listed, and then just kept going, right? Because this Hullet, SBC is just one that so many people wanna go and do. So props to EA because that is just an absolutely fantastic SBC from them to drop yesterday on the game. Now other than that, it was just an average content yesterday. If you missed the token, the swaps token from Winter Wildcard Swaps is in the very first squad of Marquis matchups. It's in the very first squad. Villarreal versus Valencia, it's right in here. If you have not seen it, it's one of the rewards right there. So make sure you get that done today as you're on your token grind. And yeah, it's gonna be a very, very interesting Friday on this game today. I think I'm gonna list up my Kevin De Bruyne right now because I do think Kevin De Bruyne could potentially go higher. But I would love to take the cash and then see where he goes a little bit later. Yeah, 1-2-6-9 and 1-2-7-4. I'm gonna monitor his price. I bought one of these at 1-1-5 and it's definitely in the profit zone right now. But we'll see. We'll keep it on that card. I'm gonna make some profit tonight and then hopefully make some more profit today on Friday. It should be a really, really good day to trade. So if you wanna watch us trade and trade with us live on stream, check the Twitch link down below in the description. We'll be streaming today around the content drop of Winter Wildcard's team number two. 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Question is from Shelby Jutton. What advice would you give someone who has consistently been training six days a week?  Yeah, here's the fascinating case of doing less is more. And you see this often with people who tend to push too much. I've had so many people I've trained where they're in this situation, they're working out six days a week or seven days a week, and they're doing too much and we scale them back. And rather than gaining body fat and losing muscle, the opposite happens, they build muscle because what they were doing before was too much. And then as they build the muscle because their muscle is burning more calories, they have a faster metabolism, they actually get leaner. So I know progressive resistance and progressive overload and adding volume, those are all part of building muscle, but at some point you get diminishing returns. And sometimes you're doing too much, doing less, oftentimes can produce better results. I liked sort of the basic idea of if you took like a week vacation and you didn't train or do anything and then you come back and you feel like the most energy, the most strength you've had in a long time, as sort of a bit of a gauge of wow, I guess that was probably a bit more of demand than I realized I was placing on my body, but you just kind of kind of take a leap of faith and try it out. If that's something you're considering and try kind of scaling back for a while, you'll know like your body's going to kind of you know, reveal that to you.  This was common, I get a whole of a competitor and many times I would assess their eating and training and many times they were overtraining and I had to scale them back from six to seven days a week to like a MAPS anabolic type of program. And this exact would be the concern.  Am I going to put on all this body fat? One of the strategies that I used to use to help mitigate that or the potential of that happening is I would just replace the days that they, the other three days that they're no longer lifting more with activity, walking, mobility. That way the calorie expenditure is still up there, but the training volume is being changed. Also mentally for them, they're doing something. Right, exactly, they're still doing something. So what I'd say to that client, I'd say listen, you don't have to stop going to the gym, go to the gym, still go your six days, if you like that, that's part of your routine. I respect that and I understand, like do it. Like I like that you've made that a part of your lifestyle, but now what I'm asking you to do is now on Tuesdays and Thursdays, I want it to be all mobility and walking on the treadmill for that hour. And so that's, and then they're also getting some calorie expenditure there. So if you take somebody who's going six days a week, training very hard, high volume, and you cut them to three, there's definitely going to be a difference in calories. They're a busy person with a busy mindset, so I got to make that productive. And they're also, their body's also adapted to a pretty high calorie burn. And if you don't adjust the calories for that difference, then there is a potential that they will put on a little bit of body fat after that. One of the ways, like I said, to mitigate that is to keeping the activity level still up there, but you're changing the type of activity. You're scaling back the intense high volume training that they were doing to give them something that their body's probably going to respond better to, like a three day a week anabolic type of full body routine. But then you're also allowing them to still move and have activity, so there's not such a discrepancy in the calorie. Yeah, but sometimes there's a paradox that happens, right? So I've had this happen many times where somebody's working out six days a week, it's too much. I cut them down to three days a week of resistance training, so they're doing less activity, but because the three days a week built more muscle on their body. Well, I'll explain that paradox. You know who that client is, is the client who also under eats. So they're over-training and they're under-eating. They usually go hand in hand. So just by cutting the days, now their calories are probably about where they should be and the less activity is actually extremely beneficial because now they're recovering better right now and they're building more muscle. Which then results in getting leaner. So absolutely. So that is a very common paradox that happens and as a coach that's what you're looking for. So when I'm assessing the diet and the training I'm looking at is this person just, I think training too much, but they have a good hold of getting enough nutrition and they're eating a good amount of calories or they over-training and under-eating. If they're over-training and under-eating, then that advice is the advice I give. We drop down to two or three days a week of weight training and I'm not even worried about activity at this time. But if I know that you're eating a good amount of calories, you're feeding the body really well, you got a good calorie intake, say if this is a female that's asking, say she's eating, I looked at her profile real quick too, let's pretend she's eating somewhere between 2,400 and 2,800 calories a day and she's just training six days a week, I might just modify that. But if she was eating 1,500 calories really, really low and over-training, I may not ask her to do the extra activity. I might just say, you know what you need to do? You need to scale back on that volume. Don't break something. Yeah, let's scale that back and actually not do any extra activity. And then I'd actually want her to increase calories and then if I do any, that's when I'll start doing movement. Yeah, you know what's interesting too about this is if you were to take just the average person, a majority of the average people would build more muscle and get better results working out three days a week than six days a week. That's just, statistically I would say that's 100% true. An adequate recovery focus. Yeah, most people would do better with that. The people that do well six days a week have, first of all, the programming has to be really, really good because it's a lot of exercise and they have to, typically have been working out for a while, they're relatively advanced, they've got good nutrition, they've got a good hold of things. They're not the average person. They tend to be much a little bit more advanced, but the average person, I mean, I wouldn't take the average person who wants to build muscle, I haven't trained six days a week. Usually I'm doing a good three day a week routine.  He was lifting twice a week. It was two days a week that he started and he did two days a week for a year before he moved up to three days a week. And now of course he follows our programs and he'll train upwards of four or five, six days a week, but it took a while. So here's the thing with exercise. The right dose is gonna get you the best results and the right dose is individualized. The more than that or less than that will get you there slower. So always remember that.


So we just proved in our previous video, we proved if e over f is a finite Galois extension, then we get that the order of the Galois group of e over f is actually equal to the degree of the extension e over f like so. And we're going to use this result to actually compute the Galois groups of every finite field that you possibly could think of. So imagine that we have some finite fields e over f. Now f does not necessarily have to be the prime field zp. It could be but it doesn't have to be. And so we're going to prove that the Galois extension of e over f is in fact always cyclic and it's going to be the cyclic group of order k where k is the degree of the extension in that situation here. So in order to apply this theorem, we have to argue that this is a Galois extension. Why is it always a normal extension? Why is it always a separable extension? Right? Which we've discussed these previously. We've proven that every finite field is a splitting field over zp and therefore it will be a splitting field for the same polynomial x to the p to the k minus x because this is a polynomial over f as well. And so you get that since e is a normal extension over zp, it'll be a normal extension over f. And likewise, it's a separable extension over zp so it'll be a separable extension over f as well. So that's to say that whenever you have a situation like the following, f is contained inside of e which is contained inside of k. If k is Galois over f, it's going to likewise be Galois over intermediate field as well. And so for finite fields, we've already proven that essentially every finite field is going to be Galois extension, a finite Galois extension of zp. So it doesn't matter which finite fields we have here. We have a Galois extension in that situation. All right, so we want to prove that this thing is cyclic. Since we know this is a Galois extension, we know the order of this group is going to be k, but why is it cyclic? We need to produce a generator and this is going to be the so-called Frobenius map. The Frobenius map is going to be the map which sends every element of e called alpha to the pth power, alpha to the p here. This is going to be a field automorphism because of freshman exponentiation. Since we're working characteristic p, we have that if you take alpha plus beta to the pth power, this is equal to alpha to the p plus beta to the p. So it preserves addition. It will also naturally preserve multiplication since multiplication is commutative in the situation. Notice that sigma here is going to preserve the subfield zp. That is, if you take sigma of a, this is a to the p, which is the same thing as a as a consequence of fair mouse little theorem. So this Frobenius map sigma belongs to the Galois group of e over zp. Now that's not the Galois group over e over f necessarily, but notice it's going to be in there. And so we know from a previous result here that there's a primitive root inside of e. There is some element alpha, so at every element of e, some element alpha here, so they take any power of alpha, you'll eventually get all of the elements in e. So alpha is a primitive root in e over zp like so. So when you look at this extension, we get that the extension of e over zp, let's call that degree n. All right, I just need to give it a name there. So let's call it degree n right here. So that would be saying that like, of course, e is the finite field of order p to the n. Not a big deal. Now, since alpha is a primitive root and since the field has order p to the n, it turns out that the order of alpha, when we think of the group e star there is going to be p to the n minus one. That's a little of a typo right there should be p to the n minus one. Sorry about that. So in particular, if you then raise alpha to the power p to the n, you're going to get back just alpha itself. So alpha to the p to the n is going to give you alpha. But alpha to the p to the n, that is just sigma to the nth power of alpha. So if you apply sigma n times to alpha, you're going to produce back this right here. And so alpha is fixed by sigma to the n. Now, as every element in e is algebraically generated by alpha here, this actually tells us that sigma to the n, like so, is the identity map. Okay, because alpha is fixed and so therefore everything is fixed. So if we think of the order of this automorphism, sigma, it's going to be n. So wait a second, n was the degree of this extension e over zp, like so. And so this tells us that, again, by the result we proved previously that the Galois group e over zp, it has order n because of this identity. We then produced an element which has order n. So this group has to be cyclic. The Galois group e over zp has to be cyclic. Of course, the Galois group of e over f is a subgroup of e over zp because fixing f is more restrictive than fixing zp. And so if you're the subgroup of a cyclic group, then you have to also be cyclic. And so it'll be generated by some power of sigma as well. So there's some power of the Frobenius map that'll generate this Galois group. And this is what happens for every Galois group over finite fields. Some power of the Frobenius map will generate it. And so we have now completely classified Galois groups over finite fields. So Galois groups over infinite fields is a little bit more complicated. We're going to focus on, of course, the case where we have characteristics zero, infinite fields with prime characteristics go beyond the scope of this course. So take a look at the next video to learn more about the fundamental theorem of Galois, which is sort of like the climax of this entire lecture series. So I do hope you check it out. 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