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 7 weeks, 3 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Midrange | 915 | 1437–1668 | 46.3 | 14 | 85 | 26 |
The Rock | 148 | 255–257 | 49.8 | 1 | 13 | 4 |
Grenzo | 9 | 20–13 | 60.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Abzan Midrange | 48 | 72–98 | 42.4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Selesnya Midrange | 47 | 71–83 | 46.1 | |||
Jund | 8 | 12–14 | 46.2 | |||
Blink | 46 | 83–72 | 53.5 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
Graveyard Value | 26 | 17–45 | 27.4 | |||
Enchantments Matter | 11 | 10–22 | 31.3 | |||
Allies | 6 | 4–13 | 23.5 | |||
Azorius Allies | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
-1/-1 Counters | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Fake-Rack | 19 | 10–46 | 17.9 | |||
Mardu Midrange | 7 | 4–12 | 25.0 | |||
Vampires | 10 | 7–23 | 23.3 | |||
Mono Black Vampires | 4 | 6–9 | 40.0 | |||
Orzhov Vampires | 4 | 1–9 | 10.0 | |||
Legends Midrange | 13 | 15–22 | 40.5 | |||
Boros Legends Midrange | 6 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
Orzhov Legends | 4 | 7–7 | 50.0 | |||
Selesnya Legends | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Elementals | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 21 | 35–46 | 43.2 | 1 | 3 | |
Naya Midrange | 5 | 8–13 | 38.1 | |||
Big Red | 10 | 12–21 | 36.4 | 0 | 3 | |
Mono Black Midrange | 5 | 0–11 | 0.0 | |||
Dimir Midrange | 29 | 45–43 | 51.1 | 3 | ||
Angel Tribal | 22 | 31–44 | 41.3 | 0 | 3 | |
Toughness Matters | 7 | 6–15 | 28.6 | |||
Lifegain Midrange | 10 | 18–14 | 56.3 | 2 | ||
Adventures | 3 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
Mutate | 3 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Sultai Midrange | 23 | 30–52 | 36.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Fight Rigging | 10 | 19–20 | 48.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Orzhov Midrange | 91 | 206–147 | 58.4 | 8 | 27 | 5 |
Jeskai Midrange | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
Heartless Summoning Stompy | 95 | 209–152 | 57.9 | 2 | 23 | 4 |
Zur the Enchanter | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Ordealbreak | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Enigmatic Incarnation | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Fires of Invention | 32 | 54–54 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Hero of Precinct One | 17 | 24–35 | 40.7 | |||
Mardu Hero | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Five Color Hero | 4 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |||
Naya Hero | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Boros Hero | 3 | 7–8 | 46.7 | |||
Clerics | 8 | 15–10 | 60.0 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Artifact Midrange | 39 | 45–75 | 37.5 | 0 | 2 | |
Death Cloud | 29 | 53–59 | 47.3 | 1 |