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 | 1330 | 2448–2353 | 51.0 | 13 | 106 | 75 |
Temur Ascendancy | 32 | 63–65 | 49.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Prophet Ascendancy | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
The Rock | 23 | 28–43 | 39.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Abzan Midrange | 31 | 55–59 | 48.2 | 0 | 4 | |
Selesnya Midrange | 75 | 155–128 | 54.8 | 0 | 8 | 7 |
Selesnya Value Town | 64 | 137–106 | 56.4 | 0 | 7 | 6 |
Jund | 40 | 34–65 | 34.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Blink | 332 | 793–511 | 60.8 | 7 | 33 | 37 |
Orzhov Blink | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Anti-Persecution | 6 | 7–12 | 36.8 | |||
Graveyard Value | 69 | 107–113 | 48.6 | 3 | ||
Séance | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Enchantments Matter | 12 | 3–20 | 13.0 | |||
Orzhov Enchantress | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Constellation | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Allies | 140 | 342–219 | 61.0 | 5 | 23 | 12 |
Orzhov Allies | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Mardu Allies | 98 | 254–143 | 64.0 | 5 | 22 | 9 |
Boros Allies | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Mono White Allies | 12 | 38–19 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Esper Allies | 3 | 9–6 | 60.0 | |||
BRGW Allies | 8 | 18–14 | 56.3 | 1 | ||
Azorius Allies | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Treefolk | 8 | 11–16 | 40.7 | |||
Fake-Rack | 11 | 13–27 | 32.5 | |||
Mardu Midrange | 6 | 14–9 | 60.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Yisan-Prophet | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Vampires | 39 | 70–78 | 47.3 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Mono Black Vampires | 26 | 50–49 | 50.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Rakdos Vampires | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Orzhov Vampires | 11 | 19–25 | 43.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Legends Midrange | 7 | 11–21 | 34.4 | |||
Elementals | 6 | 3–13 | 18.8 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 45 | 64–92 | 41.0 | 0 | 3 | |
Naya Midrange | 47 | 105–87 | 54.7 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
Big Red | 23 | 31–55 | 36.0 | |||
Mono Black Midrange | 95 | 174–189 | 47.9 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
Davriel Braids | 11 | 23–14 | 62.2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Hellion Whip | 3 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
Dimir Midrange | 34 | 41–74 | 35.7 | 0 | 2 | |
Dimir Vat | 5 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
Temur Energy | 10 | 17–19 | 47.2 | |||
Angels | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Mono White Angels | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Toughness Matters | 8 | 7–11 | 38.9 | |||
Lifegain Midrange | 9 | 7–17 | 29.2 | |||
Sultai Midrange | 21 | 55–30 | 64.7 | 5 | ||
Sultai Emerge | 18 | 51–20 | 71.8 | 5 | ||
Orzhov Midrange | 9 | 7–17 | 29.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Heartless Summoning Stompy | 13 | 18–27 | 40.0 | |||
Ordealbreak | 6 | 17–8 | 68.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Mythic Colossification | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Simic Snow | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Artifact Midrange | 8 | 11–13 | 45.8 | 0 | 2 | |
Coinflips | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Death Cloud | 11 | 10–27 | 27.0 | |||
Illness in the Ranks | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 |