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 3 weeks, 6 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Midrange | 607 | 879–1041 | 45.8 | 4 | 36 | 12 |
Temur Ascendancy | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
The Rock | 20 | 16–37 | 30.2 | 0 | 3 | |
Grenzo | 6 | 12–9 | 57.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Abzan Midrange | 8 | 6–16 | 27.3 | |||
Selesnya Midrange | 5 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Jund | 70 | 102–109 | 48.3 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
Blink | 11 | 14–22 | 38.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Graveyard Value | 16 | 19–25 | 43.2 | |||
Enchantments Matter | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Allies | 7 | 8–14 | 36.4 | |||
Esper Allies | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Fake-Rack | 3 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
Mardu Midrange | 11 | 14–17 | 45.2 | 0 | 2 | |
White Jund | 12 | 24–18 | 57.1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Vampires | 4 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |||
Mono Black Vampires | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Legends Midrange | 25 | 40–50 | 44.4 | |||
Boros Legends Midrange | 5 | 15–8 | 65.2 | |||
Mardu Legends | 3 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Orzhov Legends | 3 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
Selesnya Legends | 5 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
Elementals | 3 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 15 | 20–28 | 41.7 | |||
Naya Midrange | 5 | 6–9 | 40.0 | |||
Big Red | 7 | 4–14 | 22.2 | |||
Mono Black Midrange | 29 | 52–46 | 53.1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Hellion Whip | 3 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Dimir Midrange | 8 | 7–18 | 28.0 | |||
Angel Tribal | 4 | 4–8 | 33.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Toughness Matters | 10 | 18–16 | 52.9 | |||
Lifegain Midrange | 20 | 30–31 | 49.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Adventures | 3 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
Sultai Midrange | 33 | 49–60 | 45.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Fight Rigging | 25 | 44–46 | 48.9 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Orzhov Midrange | 63 | 117–95 | 55.2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Jeskai Midrange | 8 | 8–11 | 42.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Heartless Summoning Stompy | 13 | 24–23 | 51.1 | |||
Ordealbreak | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Enigmatic Incarnation | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Fires of Invention | 72 | 155–119 | 56.6 | 2 | 10 | 6 |
Hero of Precinct One | 23 | 29–46 | 38.7 | |||
Abzan Hero | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Mardu Hero | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Five Color Hero | 19 | 25–39 | 39.1 | |||
Boros Hero | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Clerics | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Artifact Midrange | 28 | 22–53 | 29.3 | |||
Coinflip Tribal | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Death Cloud | 30 | 38–57 | 40.0 | 0 | 2 |