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 12 weeks, 2 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Combo-Control | 814 | 1579–1347 | 54.0 | 5 | 62 | 53 |
Curses | 13 | 6–31 | 16.2 | |||
Burning Vengeance | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Battle of Wits | 16 | 23–32 | 41.8 | 1 | ||
Shared Fate | 4 | 3–9 | 25.0 | |||
Pickles | 3 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Mindcrank | 219 | 497–359 | 58.1 | 3 | 24 | 17 |
Dragoncrank | 19 | 26–28 | 48.1 | 1 | ||
Hedron Alignment | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Yosei Vat | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Lich's Mastery | 39 | 66–81 | 44.9 | 1 | ||
Hive Mind | 53 | 82–95 | 46.3 | 2 | ||
Zur's Weirding | 14 | 27–22 | 55.1 | 1 | ||
Solar Flare | 37 | 76–46 | 62.3 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
Plasma Swans | 174 | 354–256 | 58.0 | 2 | 20 | 17 |
Liliana's Contract | 3 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
Mass Land Destruction | 220 | 410–372 | 52.4 | 0 | 16 | 10 |
Wildfire | 220 | 410–372 | 52.4 | 0 | 16 | 10 |
Thryx-Wildfire | 32 | 42–52 | 44.7 | 2 | ||
Borderpost Wildfire | 183 | 361–313 | 53.6 | 0 | 16 | 8 |
Thopter-Sword | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Dimir Thopter-Sword | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 |