What are your expectations for Zero Chill?

I’ve been grinding this Madden, my first true grind since madden 17. Haven’t really played MUT since then. What can I/we expect for this promo? (Outside of recycled cards lol)

Usually the promo is 🔥

3-5 parts, usually two masters with each

There are also normal Zero Chill cards, Out Of Position cards, and also Ghosts of Madden: Past (highest OVR, maybe like 95-96), Present (bit lower OVR, like 94-95), and Future (92-93)

You also collect presents through solos, daily logins, and packs

Generally you have Small, Medium, Large, and XL Gifts. 
 

Sometimes the XL Gifts are unique players (for example, one year one of the XL Gifts gave everyone a 96 Bo Jackson. Last year, the 4 XLs gave players based on which XL Present (the colors on the present are usually promo or Team colors) you had. You could’ve gotten Ricky Williams, Isaiah Simmons, QB Derrick Henry, or Marlon Humphrey.

There usually aren’t any training rolls for presents.

That’s because there’s a new currency most years for Zero Chill. It’s called Snow or Snowflakes

For the entire promo, all players from any part of the promo usually quicksell for snow.

You can get Snow from the training reroll too, for ZC players! For example, we could see a 80+ Training Reroll, for ZC players. Then those players all could quicksell for snow. Essentially, you’re converting Training to Snow

Then with that snow, you can likely buy players (maybe there’s like a 93 ZC Hero Pack for x amount of snow), but especially presents. You can buy small presents for a chunk of snow, medium for a bit more, Random present for about the same, and large for a good amount. In past years, there has been no XL roll, but you could pull them from any of the packs.

On December 25th at 10:30am est, the presents all go to your Unopened Packs where you can open them. At that time you will also see a large market crash, so be sure to snipe as well!

Let me know if you have any questions

Rka summed it up really nicely.  We'll probably see some new legends along with the recycled ones you mentioned.   The promo is a little different every year but in general we do see Ghosts of Madden Present, Past, and Future.  The difference is usually in overall for the hero cards.  In Madden 21, for Future ghosts, we had lower overalls like 89 and then as high as 91 or so.  It's really hard to predict.

In Madden 21, we had a couple week-long promo where you got different cards for logging in (like a fantasy pack of a 93 ovr of the most recently release) and then another day a fantasy pack for the OOP cards.  That year there were also cards you upgraded with snow from a low overall (like 79) to 93 and these were Deion Jones, Devin White, Evan Engram, and Jonnu Smith.  Very solid budget cards.

Sometimes you can get an additional present if you have EA Play, as well.

I expect it to be a cookie cutter promo like years past with a couple of unusable cards but they will be mostly underwhelming.