The question is would you cut open a 2026 uncirculated mint set just to fill holes in your lincoln cent album?
Depends on how much you want the album to continue. The value of the rest of the mint set would be shot, I would think, but what is the value to you of the album?
I buy two sets every year - one to hold and the other to cut up and use all of the coins to fill albums. I know it may not be the same as hunting to find them all in the wild but this way you always get the dollars and halves that can be next to impossible to find.