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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Control | 2060 | 3456–3848 | 47.3 | 6 | 69 | 69 |
Mono Black Control | 15 | 6–23 | 20.7 | |||
Esper Control | 235 | 438–428 | 50.6 | 4 | 11 | 13 |
Demonic Rising | 19 | 28–29 | 49.1 | |||
Mono Blue Control | 12 | 10–22 | 31.3 | |||
Dimir Control | 126 | 198–197 | 50.1 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
Azorius Control | 327 | 694–542 | 56.1 | 0 | 15 | 17 |
Cawblade | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Turbo Fog | 36 | 57–59 | 49.1 | |||
Izzet Control | 11 | 11–23 | 32.4 | |||
Mardu Control | 35 | 51–81 | 38.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Mill | 44 | 40–94 | 29.9 | |||
Boros Control | 7 | 15–16 | 48.4 | |||
Cloudpost Control | 242 | 463–417 | 52.6 | 1 | 18 | 8 |
Azorius Cloudpost Control | 40 | 81–73 | 52.6 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Blackpost | 5 | 7–12 | 36.8 | |||
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 73 | 147–137 | 51.8 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Dimir Cloudpost Control | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Cloudy With Sunny Spells | 30 | 72–45 | 61.5 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Mono White Cloudpost Control | 71 | 112–112 | 50.0 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
Grixis Control | 104 | 143–225 | 38.9 | 3 | ||
Cruel Control | 17 | 20–39 | 33.9 | |||
Stax | 48 | 72–88 | 45.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Chandra Nalaar | 4 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |||
Jeskai Control | 36 | 38–76 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Jeskai Approach | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Dragon Control | 86 | 131–198 | 39.8 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Izzet Dragons | 84 | 129–193 | 40.1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Galleon Control | 6 | 13–11 | 54.2 | 0 | 2 | |
Runeflare | 26 | 34–49 | 41.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Ponza | 148 | 220–292 | 43.0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Mono White Control | 33 | 41–46 | 47.1 | 1 | ||
Life is Ez | 9 | 12–9 | 57.1 | 1 | ||
Dynavolt Tower | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Cycling Control | 21 | 22–48 | 31.4 | |||
Astral Slide | 16 | 16–41 | 28.1 | |||
Five Color Control | 45 | 49–99 | 33.1 | |||
Five Color Collected Conjuring | 13 | 13–24 | 35.1 | |||
Shrines | 12 | 8–34 | 19.0 | |||
Last Stand Control | 12 | 16–25 | 39.0 | |||
Sultai Control | 68 | 108–134 | 44.6 | 2 | ||
Sultai Ultimatum | 61 | 101–124 | 44.9 | 2 | ||
Guildgate Control | 36 | 55–81 | 40.4 | 1 | ||
Bant Control | 52 | 96–95 | 50.3 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
Pox | 187 | 357–356 | 50.1 | 0 | 6 | 8 |
Four Color Counter Ghazi | 14 | 19–35 | 35.2 | 0 | 3 | |
Orzhov Control | 8 | 12–18 | 40.0 | |||
Prison | 5 | 7–8 | 46.7 | |||
Enchantress | 5 | 7–8 | 46.7 |