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 2 weeks, 3 days.
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combo | 5711 | 12013–11084–18 | 52.0 | 427 | 2765 | |
| Reanimator | 1000 | 2219–1920–4 | 53.6 | 57 | 463 | |
| Recurring Nightmare | 199 | 424–379 | 52.8 | 8 | 86 | |
| Jund Nightmare | 7 | 11–14 | 44.0 | 0 | 1 |
Decks
Cards
Meta Share By Season
Matchups
| Archetype | Record | Win % |
|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 4–1 | 80.0 |
| Mono Black Aggro | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Red Deck Wins | 1–1 | 50.0 |
| Artifact Aggro | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Tempered Steel | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| AggroSlide | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Combo | 2–2 | 50.0 |
| Reanimator | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Traditional Reanimator | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Breakfast | 2–0 | 100.0 |
| Cephalid Breakfast | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Druid Cephalid Breakfast | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Oops All Spells | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Control | 0–4 | 0.0 |
| Demonic Rising | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Dimir Control | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Cloudpost Control | 0–2 | 0.0 |
| Blackpost | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Izzet Cloudpost Control | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Aggro-Combo | 1–3 | 25.0 |
| Aristocrats | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Trickbind Dreadnought | 0–3 | 0.0 |
| Mono Blue Dreadnought | 0–2 | 0.0 |
| Aggro-Control | 1–1 | 50.0 |
| Simic Flash | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Simic Vat | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Combo-Control | 1–1 | 50.0 |
| Curses | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Mass Land Destruction | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Jokulhaups Control | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Grixis Jokulhaups Control | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Midrange | 2–2 | 50.0 |
| Abzan Midrange | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Blink | 1–2 | 33.3 |
| Wave Blink | 1–2 | 33.3 |
| Azorius Wave | 0–2 | 0.0 |
| Abzan Wave | 1–0 | 100.0 |