Penny Dreadful. The ultra-budget, thousands-of-cards Magic Online brewer's paradise with powerful cards, six free weekly tournaments, free 24/7 league, prizes, quarterly rotations, and a super friendly community.
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How do I get started with Magic Online?
Check out the guide to Magic Online.
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Card legality is set quarterly based on which cards are 2¢ or less at that time.
The best way to search legal cards is with Scryfall.
You can view the full legal cards list.
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How do I find or brew a decklist?
Minimum 60 cards. Any number of basic lands. Max four of any other legal card. Sideboard of up to fifteen cards.
The best way to build decks is to use a search engine that supports Penny Dreadful legality (f:pd) like Scryfall.
Browse Decklists from tournaments, leagues and elsewhere
View the full legal cards list
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How do I get a game and find other Penny Dreadful players?
To get a match in Magic Online go to Constructed, Specialty, Freeform Tournament Practice on Magic Online and create a Freeform game with "Penny Dreadful" in the comments.
To find the Penny Dreadful community join the Discord.
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Leagues last for roughly a month. You may enter any number of times but only one deck at a time.
You play five matches per run. You can join the league at any time.
To find a game sign up and then create a game in Constructed, Specialty, Freeform Tournament Practice with "Penny Dreadful League" as the comment.
Top 8 finishers on each month's league leaderboard win credit with Cardhoarder.
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We have six free-to-enter weekly tournaments with prizes from Cardhoarder.
They are hosted on Gatherling along with a lot of other player-run Magic Online events.
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Legality is determined a week after the release of a Standard-legal set on Magic Online.
Prices are checked every hour for a week. Anything 2¢ or less for half or more of all checks is legal for the season.
Any version of a card on the legal cards list is legal.
The next rotation is in 8 weeks, 3 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Midrange | 1251 | 2128–2113 | 50.2 | 14 | 117 | 51 |
Temur Ascendancy | 67 | 151–124 | 54.9 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
The Rock | 12 | 15–19 | 44.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Abzan Midrange | 10 | 15–16 | 48.4 | |||
Selesnya Midrange | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Jund | 85 | 143–135 | 51.4 | 0 | 8 | 5 |
Blink | 11 | 26–19 | 57.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Acid Trip | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Graveyard Value | 77 | 118–128 | 48.0 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
Enchantments Matter | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Orzhov Enchantress | 1 | |||||
Allies | 37 | 67–52 | 56.3 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
Orzhov Allies | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mardu Allies | 5 | 10–6 | 62.5 | 0 | 1 | |
BRGW Allies | 21 | 43–26 | 62.3 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
Treefolk | 38 | 79–64 | 55.2 | 0 | 8 | |
-1/-1 Counters | 11 | 18–17 | 51.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Fake-Rack | 9 | 11–21 | 34.4 | |||
Mardu Midrange | 8 | 5–15 | 25.0 | |||
Vampires | 81 | 152–123 | 55.3 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
Mono Black Vampires | 62 | 131–94 | 58.2 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
Rakdos Vampires | 5 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Orzhov Vampires | 7 | 4–14 | 22.2 | |||
Legends Midrange | 57 | 103–87 | 54.2 | 1 | 9 | 4 |
Mardu Legends | 7 | 11–10 | 52.4 | 0 | 4 | |
Orzhov Legends | 9 | 13–16 | 44.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Elementals | 7 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 32 | 56–65 | 46.3 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Naya Midrange | 20 | 25–46 | 35.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Big Red | 19 | 39–45 | 46.4 | |||
Mono Black Midrange | 103 | 227–164 | 58.1 | 3 | 22 | 5 |
Verdant Succession | 5 | 11–8 | 57.9 | 1 | ||
Hellion Whip | 84 | 163–136 | 54.5 | 1 | 10 | 7 |
Dimir Midrange | 114 | 212–187 | 53.1 | 4 | 15 | 5 |
Dimir Vat | 37 | 82–51 | 61.7 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
Temur Energy | 6 | 13–8 | 61.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Angels | 21 | 47–31 | 60.3 | 2 | 5 | |
Mono White Angels | 21 | 47–31 | 60.3 | 2 | 5 | |
Toughness Matters | 6 | 2–11 | 15.4 | |||
Sultai Midrange | 46 | 92–73 | 55.8 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Sultai Emerge | 27 | 59–47 | 55.7 | 2 | ||
Orzhov Midrange | 10 | 10–22 | 31.3 | |||
Prophet Glare | 9 | 18–11 | 62.1 | 1 | ||
Ordealbreak | 1 | |||||
Mythic Colossification | 20 | 48–32 | 60.0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Artifact Midrange | 9 | 4–13 | 23.5 | |||
Coinflips | 6 | 0–15 | 0.0 |