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 | 1241 | 2296–2225 | 50.8 | 25 | 136 | 44 |
Temur Ascendancy | 282 | 676–432 | 61.0 | 4 | 30 | 21 |
The Rock | 22 | 32–48 | 40.0 | 1 | ||
Grenzo | 22 | 38–43 | 46.9 | 2 | 7 | |
Abzan Midrange | 70 | 134–153 | 46.7 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Jund | 73 | 106–131 | 44.7 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Blink | 146 | 391–234 | 62.6 | 12 | 39 | 6 |
Graveyard Value | 71 | 127–141 | 47.4 | 0 | 6 | 3 |
Séance | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Indestructible | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Enchantments Matter | 40 | 89–78 | 53.3 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
Orzhov Enchantress | 2 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |||
Constellation | 35 | 80–65 | 55.2 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Allies | 27 | 39–48 | 44.8 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
Orzhov Allies | 8 | 3–10 | 23.1 | |||
Boros Allies | 4 | 0–9 | 0.0 | |||
Esper Allies | 4 | 7–9 | 43.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Treefolk | 8 | 14–16 | 46.7 | |||
-1/-1 Counters | 32 | 29–74 | 28.2 | |||
Fake-Rack | 30 | 33–55 | 37.5 | 0 | 5 | |
Selvala Morningstar | 30 | 85–53 | 61.6 | 2 | 14 | |
Mardu Midrange | 8 | 7–26 | 21.2 | |||
Yisan-Prophet | 1 | |||||
Vampires | 33 | 30–48 | 38.5 | |||
Mono Black Vampires | 9 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
Rakdos Vampires | 8 | 6–15 | 28.6 | |||
Orzhov Vampires | 16 | 18–29 | 38.3 | |||
Legends Midrange | 1 | |||||
Boros Legends Midrange | 1 | |||||
Elementals | 21 | 48–37 | 56.5 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Rakdos Midrange | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
Naya Midrange | 6 | 17–12 | 58.6 | 1 | ||
Big Red | 10 | 26–17 | 60.5 | 3 | ||
Mono Black Midrange | 8 | 11–16 | 40.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Dimir Midrange | 3 | 7–5 | 58.3 | |||
Lifegain Midrange | 39 | 71–79 | 47.3 | 1 | 3 | |
Sultai Midrange | 25 | 38–40 | 48.7 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Orzhov Midrange | 19 | 17–34 | 33.3 | |||
Mythic Colossification | 2 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
Clerics | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 |