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. -
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. -
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 -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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 5 weeks, 3 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Midrange | 521 | 778–877 | 47.0 | 5 | 29 | 12 |
Temur Ascendancy | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
The Rock | 13 | 11–25 | 30.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Grenzo | 6 | 12–9 | 57.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Abzan Midrange | 5 | 4–10 | 28.6 | |||
Selesnya Midrange | 5 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Jund | 68 | 99–104 | 48.8 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
Blink | 22 | 45–36 | 55.6 | 1 | 3 | |
Graveyard Value | 16 | 19–25 | 43.2 | |||
Enchantments Matter | 2 | 5–1 | 83.3 | 1 | ||
Allies | 7 | 8–14 | 36.4 | |||
Esper Allies | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Fake-Rack | 3 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
Mardu Midrange | 9 | 11–13 | 45.8 | |||
Vampires | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Mono Black Vampires | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Legends Midrange | 11 | 15–23 | 39.5 | |||
Mardu Legends | 3 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Orzhov Legends | 3 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
Selesnya Legends | 3 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
Elementals | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 14 | 20–27 | 42.6 | |||
Naya Midrange | 4 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |||
Big Red | 7 | 4–14 | 22.2 | |||
Mono Black Midrange | 28 | 41–40 | 50.6 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Hellion Whip | 3 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Dimir Midrange | 7 | 7–16 | 30.4 | |||
Angel Tribal | 4 | 4–8 | 33.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Toughness Matters | 7 | 14–10 | 58.3 | |||
Lifegain Midrange | 14 | 22–21 | 51.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Adventures | 2 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
Sultai Midrange | 31 | 48–54 | 47.1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Fight Rigging | 24 | 43–43 | 50.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Orzhov Midrange | 57 | 110–85 | 56.4 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Jeskai Midrange | 7 | 7–11 | 38.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Heartless Summoning Stompy | 8 | 11–17 | 39.3 | |||
Ordealbreak | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Enigmatic Incarnation | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Fires of Invention | 66 | 151–104 | 59.2 | 2 | 9 | 6 |
Hero of Precinct One | 12 | 16–27 | 37.2 | |||
Abzan Hero | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Mardu Hero | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Five Color Hero | 9 | 14–21 | 40.0 | |||
Clerics | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Artifact Midrange | 28 | 22–53 | 29.3 | |||
Coinflip Tribal | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Death Cloud | 28 | 38–53 | 41.8 | 0 | 1 |