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, 6 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Midrange | 1070 | 2026–1902 | 51.6 | 6 | 97 | 47 |
Temur Ascendancy | 129 | 288–221 | 56.6 | 0 | 6 | 11 |
Prophet Ascendancy | 23 | 53–37 | 58.9 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
The Rock | 8 | 12–18 | 40.0 | |||
Grenzo | 10 | 16–21 | 43.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Abzan Midrange | 71 | 140–125 | 52.8 | 0 | 5 | 4 |
Knights of Windgrace | 12 | 26–22 | 54.2 | 1 | ||
Jund | 187 | 412–327 | 55.8 | 3 | 36 | 8 |
Blink | 32 | 48–67 | 41.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Anti-Persecution | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Graveyard Value | 23 | 37–44 | 45.7 | |||
Enchantments Matter | 26 | 17–46 | 27.0 | |||
Orzhov Enchantress | 24 | 17–41 | 29.3 | |||
Allies | 41 | 81–75 | 51.9 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Orzhov Allies | 5 | 5–11 | 31.3 | |||
Boros Allies | 3 | 10–5 | 66.7 | |||
Esper Allies | 11 | 26–16 | 61.9 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
BRGW Allies | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
-1/-1 Counters | 29 | 50–64 | 43.9 | 0 | 2 | |
Mardu Midrange | 22 | 27–39 | 40.9 | |||
Leave // Chance Midrange | 11 | 14–23 | 37.8 | |||
Yisan-Prophet | 44 | 95–74 | 56.2 | 1 | 8 | 3 |
White Jund | 38 | 79–69 | 53.4 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Vampires | 40 | 64–65 | 49.6 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
Mono Black Vampires | 7 | 10–12 | 45.5 | |||
Rakdos Vampires | 33 | 54–53 | 50.5 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
Legends Midrange | 33 | 80–51 | 61.1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Boros Legends Midrange | 32 | 79–48 | 62.2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Mardu Legends | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Elementals | 13 | 18–22 | 45.0 | 1 | ||
Rakdos Midrange | 16 | 34–27 | 55.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Naya Midrange | 4 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |||
Big Red | 4 | 10–7 | 58.8 | |||
Mono Black Midrange | 4 | 5–11 | 31.3 | |||
Verdant Succession | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Temur Energy | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
Sultai Midrange | 83 | 200–133 | 60.1 | 2 | 12 | 4 |
Sultai Emerge | 73 | 187–112 | 62.5 | 2 | 12 | 4 |
Orzhov Midrange | 33 | 48–68 | 41.4 | 0 | 2 | |
Prophet Glare | 9 | 23–16 | 59.0 | 0 | 4 | |
Clerics | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 |