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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midrange | 453 | 577–841 | 40.7 | 0 | 22 | 2 |
| Temur Ascendancy | 42 | 86–81 | 51.5 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| Prophet Ascendancy | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| The Rock | 11 | 14–20 | 41.2 | |||
| Abzan Midrange | 9 | 18–19 | 48.6 | |||
| Jund | 25 | 42–42 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Blink | 12 | 24–16 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Wave Blink | 5 | 11–8 | 57.9 | 0 | 1 | |
| Azorius Wave | 3 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Acid Trip | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Graveyard Value | 59 | 77–112 | 40.7 | 0 | 4 | |
| Séance | 10 | 10–23 | 30.3 | |||
| Dimir Graves | 13 | 19–28 | 40.4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Indestructible | 14 | 29–25 | 53.7 | 1 | ||
| Enchantments Matter | 27 | 45–49 | 47.9 | |||
| Orzhov Enchantress | 18 | 32–35 | 47.8 | |||
| Constellation | 9 | 13–14 | 48.1 | |||
| Allies | 20 | 23–39 | 37.1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Orzhov Allies | 14 | 16–24 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mardu Allies | 3 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
| Esper Allies | 3 | 6–9 | 40.0 | |||
| -1/-1 Counters | 11 | 9–22 | 29.0 | |||
| Fake-Rack | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Mardu Midrange | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Vampires | 7 | 1–16 | 5.9 | |||
| Rakdos Vampires | 6 | 1–16 | 5.9 | |||
| Orzhov Vampires | 1 | |||||
| Legends Midrange | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Elementals | 9 | 5–19 | 20.8 | |||
| Rakdos Midrange | 7 | 11–21 | 34.4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mono Black Midrange | 7 | 5–14 | 26.3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Necro Midrange | 1 | |||||
| Hellion Whip | 5 | 4–13 | 23.5 | |||
| Dimir Midrange | 3 | 9–5 | 64.3 | |||
| Sultai Midrange | 15 | 8–18 | 30.8 | 0 | 3 | |
| Sultai Emerge | 8 | 6–16 | 27.3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Sultai Energy | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Orzhov Midrange | 11 | 3–15 | 16.7 | |||
| Prophet Glare | 6 | 13–13 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mythic Colossification | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |||
| Clerics | 7 | 8–19 | 29.6 | |||
| Artifact Midrange | 9 | 4–15 | 21.1 |