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 8 weeks, 3 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Ramp | 1275 | 2358–2632–2 | 47.3 | 67 | 575 | |
Villainous Wealth | 7 | 12–16 | 42.9 | 0 | 3 | |
Rofellos Ramp | 409 | 872–810 | 51.8 | 36 | 245 | |
Wild Pair | 19 | 43–42 | 50.6 | 0 | 6 | |
Channel-Rofellos | 236 | 562–452 | 55.4 | 31 | 171 | |
Cloudpost Ramp | 499 | 935–1041 | 47.3 | 23 | 195 | |
Eldrazipost | 26 | 32–59 | 35.2 | 0 | 4 | |
Locus Awakening | 5 | 2–13 | 13.3 | |||
Golgari Post | 19 | 32–43 | 42.7 | 0 | 5 | |
Arcum's Not Astrolabe | 8 | 10–13 | 43.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Greenpost | 328 | 688–670 | 50.7 | 22 | 151 | |
Gruul Post | 44 | 78–99 | 44.1 | 1 | 17 | |
Simic Post | 29 | 46–60 | 43.4 | 0 | 10 | |
Temurpost | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Devoid Cruelty | 37 | 92–66 | 58.2 | 3 | 19 | |
Domain | 16 | 34–34 | 50.0 | 1 | 8 | |
Temur Bombardment | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Summer Bloom Ramp | 14 | 18–32 | 36.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Historic Bloom | 4 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |||
Reclamation at Wake | 4 | 5–8 | 38.5 | |||
Sarkhan's Unsealing Ramp | 4 | 8–8 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Eureka! | 5 | 12–9 | 57.1 | 0 | 3 | |
Defenders | 3 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |||
Carth Superfriends | 21 | 27–39 | 40.9 | 1 | 8 | |
Jund Carth | 5 | 3–11 | 21.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Applejacks | 25 | 46–46 | 50.0 | 2 | 8 | |
Orcish Aids | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Field Ramp | 30 | 44–67 | 39.6 | 0 | 15 |