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 | 1881 | 3288–3197 | 50.7 | 23 | 106 | 73 |
Storm | 529 | 918–1025 | 47.2 | 10 | 36 | 10 |
Dimir Tendrils | 256 | 522–438 | 54.4 | 4 | 14 | 9 |
Dragonstorm | 90 | 164–192 | 46.1 | 4 | 16 | |
Simic Storm | 43 | 81–72 | 52.9 | 1 | ||
Citadel Storm | 24 | 24–52 | 31.6 | |||
Grixis Tendrils | 5 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |||
Paradoxical Outcome Storm | 20 | 16–53 | 23.2 | |||
Izzet Storm | 69 | 94–157 | 37.5 | 2 | 5 | |
Swath Storm | 4 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |||
Song Storm | 3 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
Reanimator | 455 | 995–718 | 58.1 | 5 | 31 | 32 |
Worldgorger Dragon | 21 | 22–41 | 34.9 | |||
Double Dragon | 5 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |||
Dimir Cycling Reanimator | 3 | 7–4 | 63.6 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 428 | 963–666 | 59.1 | 5 | 31 | 32 |
Rakdos Reanimator | 255 | 588–422 | 58.2 | 1 | 18 | 20 |
Dimir Reanimator | 7 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |||
Mono Black Reanimator | 147 | 327–205 | 61.5 | 3 | 12 | 11 |
Grixis Reanimator | 15 | 36–20 | 64.3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Oriss Genesis | 20 | 45–27 | 62.5 | 2 | ||
Dubious Challenge | 3 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
Warp World | 11 | 12–20 | 37.5 | |||
Actual Warp World | 11 | 12–20 | 37.5 | |||
Maniac Combo | 8 | 19–17 | 52.8 | |||
Hypergenesis | 8 | 6–19 | 24.0 | |||
Jeskai Ascendancy | 140 | 311–163 | 65.6 | 4 | 17 | 18 |
Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 139 | 310–162 | 65.7 | 4 | 17 | 18 |
Five Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Fake-Twin | 5 | 11–13 | 45.8 | |||
Naya Fake-Twin | 5 | 11–13 | 45.8 | |||
Metalwork Colossus | 36 | 57–59 | 49.1 | 0 | 3 | |
Anvil Colossus | 4 | 7–8 | 46.7 | |||
Upheaval Colossus | 30 | 48–46 | 51.1 | 0 | 3 | |
Eggs | 12 | 20–19 | 51.3 | |||
Heartless Summoning Combo | 9 | 15–17 | 46.9 | |||
Lookout-Buccaneer Combo | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Taking Turns | 70 | 95–108 | 46.8 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Quest for Ula's Temple | 3 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
Izzet Ascension | 34 | 43–62 | 41.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Ominous Good | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Jokulhaups Combo | 13 | 12–21 | 36.4 | |||
Soulflayer | 10 | 10–17 | 37.0 | |||
Reanim8 Rack | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Breakfast | 106 | 204–146 | 58.3 | 3 | 6 | 5 |
Oops All Spells | 106 | 204–146 | 58.3 | 3 | 6 | 5 |
Oops All Lands | 9 | 9–16 | 36.0 | |||
Dredge | 105 | 152–171 | 47.1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Polymorph | 8 | 8–15 | 34.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Dice Factory | 5 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |||
Storm Herald | 9 | 13–18 | 41.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Enduring Ideal | 18 | 29–28 | 50.9 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Chain of Acid | 107 | 144–152 | 48.6 | 1 | 3 | |
GreenTwin | 34 | 61–59 | 50.8 | 1 | ||
Tibalt's Trickery | 29 | 21–66 | 24.1 | |||
Intruder Alarm | 10 | 14–17 | 45.2 | |||
Calibrated Blast | 13 | 18–27 | 40.0 | |||
Restore Balance | 16 | 13–36 | 26.5 |