Due to serious time constraint, I present you with a very short and consise version of the weekly winners this week. For the third week in a row, trade has been at a low point! But there is one big reason that drives up the value of our weekly winners: the UR deck in Modern and Legacy.
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Forked Bolt has seen a huge spike: +300% in the past 7 days!
Since UR is now popular in both legacy and modern, some cards that were previously underused and undervalued now gain in value. And Forked Bolt is one of them. With it, you can deal with irritating hatebears (which are not always 2/2) and you can also slay two small creatures your opponent controls, like Delver of Secrets and Young Pyromancer.
Price of Progress was the #3 winner last week, and is now the #2. For reasons, check out last week's winners.
The short version: Price of Progress is a very good card in most legacy matchups, and now that it can finally be played outside the mono-red burn deck people want in! And UR is now so popular in Legacy, that players want to get their hands on the cards that allows them to make that new deck, and Price of Progress was not played that much, so a lot of people still need the card.
Monastery Swiftspear is the third winner this week, and the third card that went up because of UR in modern and legacy. UR is currently dominating modern, and getting all the more present in legacy. In both decks, Monastery Swiftspear is a powerful one-drop that you can play a turn after delver, and allows you to attack with a flipped delver, Monastery Swiftspear and use your open mana to cast a damage spell to deal with your opponent's threats, cantrip, or burn him. Do this with lightning bolt and you can hit your opponent down to 12 in turn 2.
Expect Monastery Swiftspear to go up some more, especially when UR continues to thrive. Even for a set that is popular and still opened. Just because the card is now so cheap to get, modern and legacy players alike will try to stack up on them.