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 |
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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 | |
Dragon Nightmare | 143 | 342–261 | 56.7 | 8 | 65 | |
Jund Nightmare | 7 | 11–14 | 44.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Four Color Powerful Magic | 6 | 12–10 | 54.5 | 0 | 3 | |
Worldgorger Dragon | 139 | 373–266 | 58.4 | 10 | 77 | |
Double Dragon | 23 | 67–46 | 59.3 | 1 | 11 | |
Starlit Graves | 12 | 29–26 | 52.7 | 1 | 6 | |
Dimir Cycling Reanimator | 7 | 13–13 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | |
8 Goyf | 15 | 28–28 | 50.0 | 0 | 7 | |
Living Death | 48 | 123–88 | 58.3 | 5 | 24 | |
Excruciator Combo | 23 | 59–43 | 57.8 | 2 | 11 | |
Grozoth | 10 | 27–12 | 69.2 | 2 | 8 | |
Traditional Reanimator | 568 | 1198–1104–4 | 52.0 | 31 | 253 | |
Rakdos Reanimator | 84 | 171–170 | 50.1 | 2 | 35 | |
Dimir Reanimator | 36 | 98–61 | 61.6 | 2 | 20 | |
Mono Black Reanimator | 283 | 600–558–1 | 51.8 | 15 | 130 | |
Grixis Reanimator | 5 | 9–12 | 42.9 | 1 | 1 | |
Orzhov Reanimator | 7 | 20–14 | 58.8 | 0 | 5 |