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, 6 days.
Decks
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Archetypes
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ |
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| Red Deck Wins | 6 | 21–18 | 53.8 | 0 | 2 |
| Grixis Jokulhaups Control | 5 | 18–13 | 58.1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mono Blue Tempo | 3 | 12–6 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 |
| Oops All Spells | 3 | 13–6 | 68.4 | 0 | 1 |
| Izzet Ascension | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | ||
| Izzet Cloudpost Control | 2 | 2–6 | 25.0 | ||
| Izzet Tempo | 2 | 5–6 | 45.5 | ||
| Restore Balance | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | ||
| Tempered Steel | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | ||
| Ad Swanseam | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | ||
| Affinity | 1 | 3–3 | 50.0 | ||
| Astral Slide | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | ||
| Bant Control | 1 | 1–5 | 16.7 | ||
| Cawblade | 1 | 4–3 | 57.1 | 0 | 1 |
| Esper Control | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | ||
| Goblins | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | ||
| Izzet Blitzkrieg | 1 | 2–4 | 33.3 | ||
| Mindcrank | 1 | 8–1 | 88.9 | 1 | 1 |
| Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 1 | 3–3 | 50.0 | ||
| Mono White Heroic | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | ||
| Orzhov Midrange | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | ||
| Plasma Swans | 1 | 7–2 | 77.8 | 0 | 1 |
| Rakdos Midrange | 1 | 4–2 | 66.7 | ||
| Rakdos Vampires | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | ||
| Ramp | 1 | 2–4 | 33.3 | ||
| Rofellos Ramp | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | ||
| Shamans | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | ||
| Tibalt's Trickery | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 |