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 | 41875 | 68669–73748–34 | 48.2 | 359 | 3121 | 1604 |
Blink | 4649 | 9414–7171 | 56.8 | 123 | 569 | 340 |
Wave Blink | 1763 | 3798–2608 | 59.3 | 54 | 243 | 140 |
Cloudpost Wave Blink | 141 | 312–194 | 61.7 | 1 | 21 | 14 |
Esper Wave | 81 | 150–121 | 55.4 | 2 | 10 | 3 |
Azorius Wave | 809 | 1841–1206 | 60.4 | 37 | 131 | 66 |
Orzhov Wave | 404 | 840–579 | 59.2 | 11 | 63 | 29 |
Abzan Wave | 154 | 325–240 | 57.5 | 2 | 8 | 17 |
Bant Wave | 93 | 198–152 | 56.6 | 0 | 3 | 8 |