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 11 weeks, 1 day.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Midrange | 483 | 736–885 | 45.4 | 5 | 31 | 16 |
The Rock | 83 | 144–146 | 49.7 | 1 | 10 | 1 |
Grenzo | 8 | 19–12 | 61.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Abzan Midrange | 35 | 62–74 | 45.6 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Selesnya Midrange | 9 | 12–19 | 38.7 | |||
Jund | 6 | 9–11 | 45.0 | |||
Blink | 30 | 57–44 | 56.4 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Graveyard Value | 17 | 13–31 | 29.5 | |||
Séance | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Enchantments Matter | 9 | 10–18 | 35.7 | |||
Allies | 3 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |||
-1/-1 Counters | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Fake-Rack | 8 | 3–16 | 15.8 | |||
Mardu Midrange | 4 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |||
Vampires | 10 | 7–23 | 23.3 | |||
Mono Black Vampires | 4 | 6–9 | 40.0 | |||
Orzhov Vampires | 4 | 1–9 | 10.0 | |||
Legends Midrange | 11 | 14–18 | 43.8 | |||
Boros Legends Midrange | 6 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
Orzhov Legends | 4 | 7–7 | 50.0 | |||
Selesnya Legends | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 8 | 12–20 | 37.5 | |||
Naya Midrange | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Big Red | 6 | 6–16 | 27.3 | 0 | 3 | |
Mono Black Midrange | 5 | 0–11 | 0.0 | |||
Dimir Midrange | 24 | 44–33 | 57.1 | 3 | ||
Angel Tribal | 16 | 26–28 | 48.1 | 0 | 3 | |
Toughness Matters | 5 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
Lifegain Midrange | 8 | 17–9 | 65.4 | 2 | ||
Sultai Midrange | 15 | 26–32 | 44.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Fight Rigging | 9 | 19–18 | 51.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Orzhov Midrange | 23 | 59–35 | 62.8 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
Owling Mine | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Jeskai Midrange | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
Heartless Summoning Stompy | 37 | 66–63 | 51.2 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Zur the Enchanter | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Fires of Invention | 15 | 16–27 | 37.2 | |||
Hero of Precinct One | 11 | 16–19 | 45.7 | |||
Mardu Hero | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
Five Color Hero | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
Naya Hero | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Clerics | 8 | 15–10 | 60.0 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Artifact Midrange | 11 | 7–24 | 22.6 | |||
Death Cloud | 15 | 30–31 | 49.2 |