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NBA 2K26 MyTEAM: Frostbite Card Buying Guide
DBG's analysis of the Frostbite card set in NBA 2K26 MyTEAM. Find out which cards are budget-friendly and which to avoid. Diamond cards offer good value overall, with certain Amethyst cards being useful for budget players. Pink Diamond cards vary in value depending on their price. Opal cards are good but can be expensive.
1. 🎮 Introduction to Frostbite Set Cards and Overall Impressions
- ✅ DBG is taking a look at the new Frostbite set cards in NBA 2K26 MyTEAM.
- ⚠️ Apologies for the potentially poor audio quality.
- ✅ DBG will be providing gameplay for most of the cards.
- ✅ The Ryan Dun card looks good.
- ✅ Bobby Simmons also looks pretty decent.
00:01 - 00:58
1. 🎮 Introduction to Frostbite Set Cards and Overall Impressions
- ✅ DBG is taking a look at the new Frostbite set cards in NBA 2K26 MyTEAM.
- ⚠️ Apologies for the potentially poor audio quality.
- ✅ DBG will be providing gameplay for most of the cards.
- ✅ The Ryan Dun card looks good.
- ✅ Bobby Simmons also looks pretty decent.
00:59 - 01:41
2. 🏀 Amethyst Card Analysis: Trey Jones and Danny Forson
- ❌ Trey Jones is a 6'1" point guard with decent stats but is short. 3 out of 10.
- ❌ Danny Forson is terrible. One of the worst cards DBG has ever used.
01:42 - 02:47
3. 🏀 WNBA Card Evaluation: Kennedy Burke and Christy Toliver
- ❌ Kennedy Burke is a 6'1", 6'3" wingspan shooting guard.
- ❌ Christy Toliver can't dunk.
- ❌ WNBA cards are generally useless.
02:48 - 04:05
4. 🏀 Amethyst Card: Miles McBride In-Depth Analysis
- ✅ Miles McBride is 6'1" and has a long wingspan.
- ✅ He looks like a mini Donovan Mitchell.
- ✅ It's a decent card but a couple of weeks late.
- ✅ DBG can use him.
04:06 - 04:20
5. 🏀 Amethyst Card: Nadstitch Evaluation
- ❌ Nadstitch is not good.
04:21 - 05:17
6. 🏀 Amethyst Card: Ryan Dunn Highlights
- ✅ Ryan Dunn is probably the best card that came out today.
- ✅ For budget players, this card is insane.
- ✅ The defensive stats are crazy.
- ✅ The player build is crazy.
- ✅ Very similar to DeAndre Hunter.
- ✅ If the release is good, it's one of the best budget cards in the game.
05:18 - 06:10
7. 🏀 Amethyst Card: Bobby Simmons Analysis
- ✅ Bobby Simmons is Klay Thompson.
- ✅ He's pretty decent.
- ✅ If you didn't get Klay Thompson, he's basically Klay.
- ✅ Out of the Amethyst cards, Juice McBride, Ryan Dunn, and Bobby Simmons are all decent cards.
06:11 - 06:37
8. 💎 Diamond Cards: Overall Impressions
- ✅ DBG is excited to look at the Diamond cards.
- ✅ The Diamond cards are all pretty decent.
- ✅ Dragage is 6'4".
- ✅ Dylan Brooks is always decent.
- ✅ Wendell Carter Jr. is really good.
06:38 - 07:32
9. 💎 Diamond Card: Wendell Carter Jr. In-Depth Analysis
- ✅ Wendell Carter Jr. is amazing.
- ✅ He's a big man who can do everything.
- ✅ He looks very solid as a budget card.
- ✅ He'll settle around 30k.
- ✅ He's very Shangunesque.
- ✅ You can give Carter the advantage.
07:33 - 08:23
10. 💎 Diamond Card: Spencer Dinwiddie Evaluation
- ✅ This version of Dinwiddie was pretty decent.
- ✅ They're basically the same card.
- ✅ 6'5", 6'8" wingspan.
- ✅ Has Hall of Fame range.
- ✅ Has playmaking badges.
- ✅ Has quite a few defensive badges.
- ✅ Good steals and good blocks.
- ✅ One of the better point guards you can get in the 30k price range.
08:24 - 09:30
11. 💎 Diamond Card: Jusuf Nurkic Analysis
- ✅ Nurkic is good.
- ✅ 7 feet tall with a good release.
- ✅ 83 three-point shot.
- ✅ He's good, especially since he'll be very cheap.
- ✅ Wondering why Nurkic looks so good.
09:31 - 10:08
12. 💎 Diamond Card: Jarred Vanderbilt Evaluation
- ❌ Vanderbilt doesn't like the release.
- ✅ The stats are almost perfect.
- ✅ The badges are fantastic.
- ❌ The release is ruined.
- ❌ DBG thinks Vanderbilt is overrated.
- ✅ Not bad.
- ✅ If you need to use a Lakers player, he can be a very solid small forward.
10:09 - 10:15
13. 💎 Diamond Card: Ivory Latta
- ❌ Ivory Latta has a basic dribble style.
- ❌ Rare for a 5'6" WNBA point guard.
10:16 - 10:43
14. 💎 Diamond Card: Goran Dragic and Grant Hill
- ✅ Goran Dragic is good because of the release.
- ✅ Grant Hill is not bad.
- ❌ He has a basic behind-the-back.
10:44 - 11:38
15. 💎 Diamond Card: Dylan Brooks In-Depth Analysis
- ✅ Dylan Brooks is always good.
- ✅ Thought he would have a bigger wingspan at 6'6".
- ✅ Low block rating.
- ✅ Play him as a shooting guard.
- ✅ Has Booker behind-the-back.
- ✅ Three-point shooting and defense are solid.
- ✅ He's an automatic post fade.
- ✅ He's really good.
- ✅ He's a consideration for both no-money-spent teams and main teams.
- ✅ The shooting guard position is one of the positions that struggles at the budget level.
11:39 - 11:59
16. 💖 Pink Diamond Card: Peja Stojakovic Evaluation
- ✅ Peja Stojakovic is good.
- ✅ The release is a little shaky.
- ✅ The dribbling is really good.
- ✅ The size is really good.
- ✅ Small forward power forward defense.
- ✅ He's good.
- ✅ He's really good.
12:00 - 12:30
17. 💖 Pink Diamond Card: Grant Hill In-Depth Analysis
- ✅ Grant Hill has 93 three-point shooting, 93 speed, 95 vertical, and 95 driving dunk.
- ✅ The defense is really good.
- ✅ Depends on whether you like the release.
- ✅ Can't get much better in terms of stat badges.
- ✅ If the shot is good enough, you can argue that he's still in the top 5 at the shooting guard position.
- ✅ There's a chance he'll be near the 100k mark.
- ✅ Not bad at that price.
12:31 - 13:01
18. 💖 Pink Diamond Card: Mess Analysis
- ❌ Mess has no dribbling.
- ❌ Giving her 80-90 driving dunk and giving her dribbling would make her an interesting small forward.
- ❌ Can't use her.
13:02 - 13:34
19. 💖 Pink Diamond Card: Dwyane Wade Evaluation
- ❌ Derek White has no hot zones.
- ❌ 55 driving dunk is fatal.
- ❌ Giving him 80 driving dunk would make him a good card.
- ❌ Don't know how you can use him.
- ❌ He lacks too many badges.
- ❌ He'll be the cheapest Pink Diamond.
- ❌ He'll be the first Pink Diamond to drop below 90k.
- ❌ Theresa Weatherspoon is a WNBA Opal.
13:35 - 14:01
20. ✨ Galaxy Opal Card: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Dwyane Wade
- ✅ Kareem is really good.
- ✅ Kareem is always good.
- ✅ Dwyane Wade has 97 speed and 89 three-point shooting.
- ✅ The dunk is really good, the animation is really good, and the badges are really good.
- ❌ The jump shot is okay.
- ✅ Looking at today's set, the Diamonds are really good.
14:02 - 14:43
21. 💰 Card Purchase Recommendations
- ✅ The odds of pulling Diamonds are relatively high.
- ✅ For Amethysts, Bobby Simmons is good.
- ✅ McBride is okay.
- ✅ Ryan Dunn is exceptional.
- ❌ Miss the rest.
- ✅ For Diamonds, Dragage is okay, except for the WNBA players.
- ✅ Jared Vanderbilt is good.
- ✅ Brooks, Nurkic, Wendell Carter, and Dinwiddie are really good.
- ✅ For Pink Diamonds, it depends on the price.
- ✅ If one of them is around 100k, it's a decent value.
- ❌ Completely avoid Derek White.
- ✅ For Opals, it's good if you get them for free.
- ❌ They're too expensive.