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 12 weeks, 4 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Midrange | 718 | 1064–1351 | 44.1 | 6 | 56 | 12 |
The Rock | 19 | 18–39 | 31.6 | |||
Golgari Citadel | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Grenzo | 6 | 4–13 | 23.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Abzan Midrange | 29 | 54–69 | 43.9 | 1 | 3 | |
Selesnya Midrange | 2 | 8–1 | 88.9 | |||
Selesnya Value Town | 1 | 4–0 | 100.0 | |||
Jund | 29 | 35–72 | 32.7 | |||
Blink | 19 | 26–25 | 51.0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Acid Trip | 3 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |||
Orzhov Blink | 6 | 9–8 | 52.9 | 0 | 2 | |
Anti-Persecution | 4 | 3–13 | 18.8 | |||
Graveyard Value | 14 | 25–27 | 48.1 | |||
Séance | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Enchantments Matter | 3 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
Allies | 11 | 12–9 | 57.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Orzhov Allies | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |||
Azorius Allies | 7 | 7–5 | 58.3 | |||
Treefolk | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Fake-Rack | 7 | 4–20 | 16.7 | |||
Mardu Midrange | 8 | 22–13 | 62.9 | 0 | 2 | |
Vampires | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Orzhov Vampires | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Legends Midrange | 4 | 6–9 | 40.0 | |||
Elementals | 16 | 13–24 | 35.1 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 11 | 12–14 | 46.2 | 1 | ||
Naya Midrange | 4 | 1–8 | 11.1 | |||
Big Red | 7 | 5–12 | 29.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Black Midrange | 71 | 106–133 | 44.4 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
Dimir Midrange | 15 | 27–25 | 51.9 | |||
Angels | 124 | 263–212 | 55.4 | 5 | 22 | 5 |
Mono White Angels | 75 | 168–124 | 57.5 | 4 | 10 | 4 |
Azorius Angels | 27 | 53–49 | 52.0 | 1 | 6 | |
Orzhov Angels | 3 | 6–3 | 66.7 | |||
Toughness Matters | 18 | 26–42 | 38.2 | |||
Lifegain Midrange | 36 | 43–83 | 34.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Mutate | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
Sultai Midrange | 25 | 43–44 | 49.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Fight Rigging | 15 | 27–27 | 50.0 | |||
Orzhov Midrange | 34 | 48–54 | 47.1 | 0 | 3 | |
Jeskai Midrange | 9 | 16–15 | 51.6 | 1 | ||
Heartless Summoning Stompy | 13 | 11–32 | 25.6 | |||
Fires of Invention | 23 | 22–40 | 35.5 | |||
Hero of Precinct One | 14 | 11–25 | 30.6 | |||
Mardu Hero | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Orzhov Hero | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Five Color Hero | 11 | 7–17 | 29.2 | |||
Clerics | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Artifact Midrange | 37 | 57–70 | 44.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Death Cloud | 14 | 15–30 | 33.3 | |||
Nissa Company | 29 | 53–46 | 53.5 | 0 | 9 | 2 |
Game Objects | 20 | 15–36 | 29.4 |