I Was Sick of the Campaign Grind, Seriously
Look, I tried doing the standard campaign challenges just like everyone else. I busted my butt playing those slow, painful solos trying to rack up enough tokens for that 87 OVR mix player. After three hours of that garbage, I realized two things: I was bored out of my mind, and I barely had enough resources to craft a decent coffee, let alone the required high-OVR components.
You know the deal. To get that guaranteed 1 of 3 87 player, you usually need to trade in a bunch of 84s, which you craft using 82s, which you craft using 78s. It’s an insane resource sink, and the return on investment if you’re just buying the required cards straight off the auction block is a joke. I was dumping coins and getting nowhere. I needed a loophole. I needed a strategy that didn’t rely on playing every single stupid challenge the devs put out.
Spotting the Glitch: The Overlooked Exchange Rate
I started digging into the Campaign Sets menu. Not the main sets, but the minor exchange sets. I scrolled down to the ones dealing with the low-end fodder, specifically the 78-79 OVR Exchange Set C. Most people skip this because the returns look terrible on paper. They think it’s just a way to dump useless duplicates.
- I noticed the input required was cheap as dirt: 10 common 75-77 OVR cards.
- The output gave you two random 78-79 OVR cards, plus one specific “Campaign Token B.”
The token wasn’t the point. The cost of those 10 common cards, if you sniped them correctly, was maybe 1,000 to 1,500 coins tops. That’s nothing. If I did this 10 times, I was guaranteed 20 usable 78-79s for maybe 15,000 coins. I sat there staring at the screen, doing the math in my head, realizing the market price for the 75-77s hadn’t caught up to their true value as set fodder yet. This was the moment I figured out the quick farm strategy.
The Preparation: Stocking Up and Pre-Crafting
My first step wasn’t even touching the 87 set. It was pure arbitrage. I spent an hour glued to the auction house refresh button. I wasn’t looking for major deals; I was just looking for volume. I bought every single 75-77 OVR common card I could find under 150 coins. Seriously, anything slightly above minimum price I bought instantly. I cleaned out the cheap listings fast, focusing on the ones nobody else wanted because they didn’t realize they were set pieces.
I ended up with about 200 of these low-tier cards for under 30,000 coins total. This is crucial—you need mass quantity to make this loop efficient. Trying to do this piecemeal will waste your time. You gotta go big on the low-OVR purchases.
Then I started the initial dump. I burned through those 200 cards instantly, feeding them into the 78-79 Exchange Set C. This process took me maybe ten minutes, just clicking through the menus, one after the other, ignoring the useless tokens I was accumulating. When I finished, I had close to 40 new 78-79 OVR cards plus a whole lot of extra garbage tokens that I just let pile up.
Executing the Loop: Turning Trash into Gold
This is where the magic happens and the pace speeds up dramatically. I immediately took those new 78-79 cards and pivoted to the next exchange: the 80-82 OVR Campaign Upgrade Set.
The input requirement for this set is 5 specific 78-79 OVR cards. Since I just generated 40 of them for next to nothing, I could complete this set 8 times straight away. Every time you complete this 80-82 set, you get one random 80-82 OVR player. I was getting 8 solid middle-tier players faster than I could complete one single campaign challenge. I was laughing, honestly, because I realized how badly I was breaking the intended grind.
I realized I had struck gold because the drop rates on the lower exchanges were fixed, meaning my cost-per-80 OVR player was drastically lower than buying them directly. Direct purchase of an 80 OVR card was running 8,000 coins on the auction block, sometimes more if you were desperate. My cost, using the farming loop I discovered, was closer to 3,500 coins per 80 OVR card. That massive margin meant I could repeat the process for almost no risk.
The Final Push: Crafting the 87 Player
I needed 4 of those 84 OVR cards to complete the main 87 Campaign Mix Set. The requirement for a single 84 OVR card is usually something like five 80-82 OVR players. I had 8 of them in the bag already from my first run, enough for two 84s. I had to go again, but this time I was focused.
I repeated the whole loop—buying 75s, exchanging for 78s, upgrading to 80s—three more times. Since I knew exactly what I was looking for, the total time to buy and process the cards dropped to about 40 minutes for the entire final run. I must have processed over 600 low-OVR cards by the time I was done, but the coin spent was still relatively low, maybe 120,000 total. That is pennies compared to the time saved.
By the end of the night, I had generated enough 80-82 OVR cards to easily craft all four required 84 OVR players. I slammed those four 84s into the main 87 Campaign Mix Player set. Done. Instant 87 OVR player added to the roster. No grinding, no frustration, just efficient menu work.
I didn’t have to play those boring challenges, I didn’t spend an obscene amount of coins, and the whole process—from starting the auction house sniping to having the 87 OVR player unlocked—took me roughly two hours of concentrated menu grinding. That’s it. If you’re trying to build your squad quickly without paying real money or suffering through the repetitive challenges, this is the cheat code right now. Hit it hard before the developers figure out that this specific low-level exchange rate is completely busted and patch it out of existence. Trust me, it’s going to get patched soon, so move your butt.