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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Combo | 566 | 946–1034 | 47.8 | 6 | 48 | 31 |
Storm | 156 | 232–294 | 44.1 | 0 | 10 | 5 |
Sultai Tendrils | 10 | 10–20 | 33.3 | |||
Dimir Tendrils | 46 | 77–93 | 45.3 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
Dragonstorm | 7 | 4–10 | 28.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Simic Storm | 11 | 12–20 | 37.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Grixis Tendrils | 31 | 49–47 | 51.0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Reanimator | 48 | 68–91 | 42.8 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Grozoth | 9 | 18–15 | 54.5 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 39 | 50–76 | 39.7 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Mono Black Reanimator | 5 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
Biovisionary | 2 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 9 | 15–12 | 55.6 | |||
Warp World | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Actual Warp World | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Zubera Tribal | 4 | 4–10 | 28.6 | |||
Maniac Combo | 25 | 55–37 | 59.8 | 4 | ||
Jeskai Ascendancy | 76 | 181–124 | 59.3 | 5 | 16 | 7 |
Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 21 | 42–28 | 60.0 | 1 | ||
Jeskai Jeskai Ascendancy | 53 | 135–90 | 60.0 | 5 | 16 | 6 |
Myr Incubator | 4 | 0–10 | 0.0 | |||
Umbral Mantle | 26 | 53–34 | 60.9 | 5 | ||
Fake-Twin | 53 | 112–81 | 58.0 | 1 | 10 | 5 |
Jeskai Fake-Twin | 53 | 112–81 | 58.0 | 1 | 10 | 5 |
Infinite Infinite Combos | 2 | 3–6 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Eggs | 4 | 2–10 | 16.7 | |||
Turntimber Ranger | 4 | 6–9 | 40.0 | |||
Heartless Summoning Combo | 29 | 40–58 | 40.8 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Blazing Shoal Combo | 14 | 27–34 | 44.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Retraction Helix Combo | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Taking Turns | 39 | 75–66 | 53.2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Quest for Ula's Temple | 5 | 3–13 | 18.8 | |||
Oops All Lands | 5 | 6–15 | 28.6 | |||
Polymorph | 8 | 5–16 | 23.8 |