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 12 weeks, 2 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Midrange | 806 | 1161–1413 | 45.1 | 5 | 57 | 14 |
Temur Ascendancy | 2 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
The Rock | 28 | 24–54 | 30.8 | 0 | 5 | |
Grenzo | 6 | 12–9 | 57.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Abzan Midrange | 8 | 6–16 | 27.3 | |||
Selesnya Midrange | 5 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Jund | 80 | 114–127 | 47.3 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
Blink | 51 | 86–88 | 49.4 | 1 | 4 | |
Wave Blink | 3 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
Cloudpost Wave Blink | 3 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
Orzhov Blink | 34 | 60–56 | 51.7 | 1 | 4 | |
Graveyard Value | 20 | 26–35 | 42.6 | |||
Séance | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
Enchantments Matter | 3 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Allies | 10 | 11–23 | 32.4 | |||
Esper Allies | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Fake-Rack | 7 | 5–13 | 27.8 | |||
Mardu Midrange | 11 | 14–17 | 45.2 | 0 | 2 | |
White Jund | 14 | 27–22 | 55.1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Vampires | 5 | 6–5 | 54.5 | |||
Mono Black Vampires | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Rakdos Vampires | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Legends Midrange | 37 | 50–66 | 43.1 | 0 | 2 | |
Boros Legends Midrange | 16 | 26–24 | 52.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Mardu Legends | 3 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Orzhov Legends | 4 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
Selesnya Legends | 4 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Elementals | 6 | 5–8 | 38.5 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 18 | 22–36 | 37.9 | |||
Naya Midrange | 7 | 6–12 | 33.3 | |||
Big Red | 8 | 5–18 | 21.7 | |||
Mono Black Midrange | 42 | 74–67 | 52.5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Hellion Whip | 4 | 6–9 | 40.0 | |||
Dimir Midrange | 12 | 15–28 | 34.9 | 0 | 3 | |
Angels | 4 | 4–8 | 33.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Orzhov Angels | 4 | 4–8 | 33.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Toughness Matters | 13 | 22–20 | 52.4 | |||
Lifegain Midrange | 29 | 50–43 | 53.8 | 0 | 2 | |
Adventures | 3 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
Sultai Midrange | 33 | 49–60 | 45.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Fight Rigging | 25 | 44–46 | 48.9 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Orzhov Midrange | 55 | 99–88 | 52.9 | 2 | ||
Jeskai Midrange | 11 | 8–18 | 30.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Heartless Summoning Stompy | 17 | 29–32 | 47.5 | |||
Ordealbreak | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Enigmatic Incarnation | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Fires of Invention | 82 | 176–144 | 55.0 | 2 | 13 | 6 |
Hero of Precinct One | 46 | 77–85 | 47.5 | 0 | 4 | |
Abzan Hero | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Mardu Hero | 4 | 10–6 | 62.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Five Color Hero | 30 | 46–61 | 43.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Naya Hero | 7 | 12–11 | 52.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Boros Hero | 3 | 8–3 | 72.7 | |||
Clerics | 7 | 13–6 | 68.4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Artifact Midrange | 36 | 29–64 | 31.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Coinflips | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Death Cloud | 35 | 44–68 | 39.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Illness in the Ranks | 6 | 7–12 | 36.8 | |||
Game Objects | 10 | 8–21 | 27.6 |