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 4 weeks.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Midrange | 115 | 100–130–5 | 43.5 | 0 | 12 | |
Temur Ascendancy | 4 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
The Rock | 4 | 5–1 | 83.3 | |||
Grenzo | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Abzan Midrange | 13 | 17–13 | 56.7 | 0 | 2 | |
Jund | 9 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |||
Blink | 6 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Wave Blink | 1 | |||||
Graveyard Value | 9 | 6–14 | 30.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Enchantments Matter | 3 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Orzhov Enchantress | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Allies | 6 | 7–10 | 41.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Orzhov Allies | 5 | 5–8 | 38.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Fake-Rack | 6 | 1–15 | 6.3 | |||
Vampires | 3 | 7–4 | 63.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Black Vampires | 3 | 7–4 | 63.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Legends Midrange | 1 | |||||
Elementals | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Big Red | 1 | |||||
Mono Black Midrange | 21 | 36–32–4 | 52.9 | 0 | 6 | |
Sultai Midrange | 3 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
Sultai Emerge | 2 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
Orzhov Midrange | 4 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Artifact Midrange | 1 |