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 9 weeks, 4 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Midrange | 662 | 1041–1215 | 46.1 | 10 | 49 | 22 |
The Rock | 104 | 183–191 | 48.9 | 1 | 11 | 3 |
Grenzo | 8 | 19–12 | 61.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Abzan Midrange | 42 | 70–90 | 43.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Selesnya Midrange | 28 | 39–55 | 41.5 | |||
Jund | 7 | 9–12 | 42.9 | |||
Blink | 37 | 65–52 | 55.6 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
Graveyard Value | 22 | 16–39 | 29.1 | |||
Enchantments Matter | 9 | 10–18 | 35.7 | |||
Allies | 5 | 3–9 | 25.0 | |||
Azorius Allies | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
-1/-1 Counters | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Fake-Rack | 8 | 3–16 | 15.8 | |||
Mardu Midrange | 6 | 3–11 | 21.4 | |||
Vampires | 10 | 7–23 | 23.3 | |||
Mono Black Vampires | 4 | 6–9 | 40.0 | |||
Orzhov Vampires | 4 | 1–9 | 10.0 | |||
Legends Midrange | 11 | 14–18 | 43.8 | |||
Boros Legends Midrange | 6 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
Orzhov Legends | 4 | 7–7 | 50.0 | |||
Selesnya Legends | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 9 | 13–24 | 35.1 | |||
Naya Midrange | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Big Red | 6 | 6–16 | 27.3 | 0 | 3 | |
Mono Black Midrange | 5 | 0–11 | 0.0 | |||
Dimir Midrange | 26 | 44–41 | 51.8 | 3 | ||
Angel Tribal | 19 | 29–33 | 46.8 | 0 | 3 | |
Toughness Matters | 5 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
Lifegain Midrange | 11 | 20–15 | 57.1 | 2 | ||
Adventures | 3 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
Mutate | 3 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Sultai Midrange | 25 | 37–56 | 39.8 | 0 | 2 | |
Fight Rigging | 10 | 19–20 | 48.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Orzhov Midrange | 64 | 157–101 | 60.9 | 6 | 14 | 4 |
Jeskai Midrange | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
Heartless Summoning Stompy | 56 | 117–86 | 57.6 | 1 | 8 | 2 |
Zur the Enchanter | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Fires of Invention | 26 | 42–47 | 47.2 | 1 | ||
Hero of Precinct One | 14 | 18–29 | 38.3 | |||
Mardu Hero | 2 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Five Color Hero | 4 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |||
Naya Hero | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Clerics | 8 | 15–10 | 60.0 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Artifact Midrange | 15 | 9–34 | 20.9 | |||
Death Cloud | 25 | 49–51 | 49.0 | 1 |