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 | 882 | 1608–1627 | 49.7 | 10 | 93 | 35 |
Temur Ascendancy | 4 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
The Rock | 39 | 90–63 | 58.8 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Grenzo | 3 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
Abzan Midrange | 142 | 274–252 | 52.1 | 0 | 6 | 7 |
Jund | 6 | 8–8 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Blink | 139 | 355–210 | 62.8 | 7 | 35 | 11 |
Wave Blink | 133 | 350–195 | 64.2 | 7 | 35 | 11 |
Cloudpost Wave Blink | 46 | 115–64 | 64.2 | 0 | 8 | 6 |
Esper Wave | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Azorius Wave | 68 | 189–95 | 66.5 | 7 | 21 | 5 |
Orzhov Wave | 10 | 33–15 | 68.8 | 0 | 5 | |
Abzan Wave | 7 | 12–17 | 41.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Bant Wave | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Acid Trip | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Anti-Persecution | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Graveyard Value | 40 | 60–75 | 44.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Séance | 4 | 9–5 | 64.3 | |||
Varolz Dreadnought | 12 | 29–19 | 60.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Enchantments Matter | 8 | 13–17 | 43.3 | |||
Allies | 87 | 217–143 | 60.3 | 2 | 28 | 5 |
Orzhov Allies | 3 | 6–7 | 46.2 | 0 | 2 | |
Mardu Allies | 26 | 59–48 | 55.1 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
Boros Allies | 6 | 13–13 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono White Allies | 40 | 117–54 | 68.4 | 2 | 13 | 4 |
Treefolk | 25 | 31–50 | 38.3 | 0 | 7 | |
-1/-1 Counters | 4 | 4–10 | 28.6 | |||
Fake-Rack | 4 | 8–8 | 50.0 | |||
Mardu Midrange | 17 | 32–35 | 47.8 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Vampires | 34 | 71–66 | 51.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Mono Black Vampires | 6 | 7–13 | 35.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Rakdos Vampires | 4 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
Orzhov Vampires | 21 | 53–42 | 55.8 | 1 | ||
Legends Midrange | 10 | 25–18 | 58.1 | 2 | ||
Boros Legends Midrange | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Elementals | 3 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 11 | 26–21 | 55.3 | 1 | ||
Naya Midrange | 4 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
Big Red | 5 | 6–9 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Black Midrange | 27 | 39–52 | 42.9 | 0 | 3 | |
Dimir Midrange | 5 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |||
Temur Energy | 18 | 32–27 | 54.2 | 1 | ||
Angels | 4 | 6–10 | 37.5 | 0 | 3 | |
Mono White Angels | 4 | 6–10 | 37.5 | 0 | 3 | |
Toughness Matters | 14 | 15–29 | 34.1 | |||
Lifegain Midrange | 20 | 27–58 | 31.8 | |||
Sultai Midrange | 36 | 49–88 | 35.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Sultai Energy | 26 | 38–63 | 37.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Orzhov Midrange | 18 | 23–36 | 39.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Prophet Glare | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |||
Zur the Enchanter | 10 | 9–22 | 29.0 | |||
Ordealbreak | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mythic Colossification | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Neoform | 11 | 5–20 | 20.0 | |||
Sultai Neoform | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Simic Neoform | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 |