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 | 1311 | 1945–2342–1 | 45.4 | 2 | 56 | 34 |
Mono Black Control | 20 | 27–42 | 39.1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Esper Control | 104 | 154–219 | 41.3 | 0 | 6 | |
Demonic Rising | 24 | 38–36 | 51.4 | 2 | ||
Mono Blue Control | 9 | 5–18 | 21.7 | |||
Dimir Control | 142 | 228–217 | 51.2 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
Azorius Control | 222 | 358–345 | 50.9 | 0 | 10 | 11 |
Cawblade | 32 | 38–34 | 52.8 | |||
Turbo Fog | 26 | 31–55 | 36.0 | |||
Izzet Control | 38 | 65–59 | 52.4 | 3 | ||
Mill | 20 | 37–44 | 45.7 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Boros Control | 7 | 7–14 | 33.3 | |||
Cloudpost Control | 132 | 242–239 | 50.3 | 2 | 8 | 2 |
Azorius Cloudpost Control | 13 | 13–21 | 38.2 | |||
Blackpost | 24 | 40–51 | 44.0 | |||
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 83 | 165–145 | 53.2 | 2 | 8 | 2 |
Izzet Cloudpost Control | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |||
Mono White Cloudpost Control | 9 | 20–18 | 52.6 | |||
Grixis Control | 72 | 108–126 | 46.2 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
Cruel Control | 8 | 4–14 | 22.2 | |||
Stax | 44 | 66–86 | 43.4 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Chandra Nalaar | 3 | 3–6 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Jeskai Control | 23 | 32–43 | 42.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Dragon Control | 26 | 39–56 | 41.1 | 0 | 5 | |
Izzet Dragons | 17 | 22–39 | 36.1 | 0 | 3 | |
Runeflare | 13 | 15–37 | 28.8 | |||
Ponza | 36 | 63–72 | 46.7 | 1 | ||
Mono White Control | 39 | 56–46 | 54.9 | 2 | ||
Life is Ez | 28 | 46–33 | 58.2 | 2 | ||
Cycling Control | 16 | 21–27 | 43.8 | |||
Astral Slide | 16 | 21–27 | 43.8 | |||
Five Color Control | 22 | 17–42 | 28.8 | 0 | 2 | |
Five Color Collected Conjuring | 5 | 3–10 | 23.1 | |||
Shrines | 6 | 3–10 | 23.1 | |||
Sultai Control | 18 | 24–35 | 40.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Guildgate Control | 18 | 27–39 | 40.9 | |||
Bant Control | 13 | 10–26 | 27.8 | |||
Pox | 54 | 70–103 | 40.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Enchantments Control | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Four Color Counter Ghazi | 5 | 10–11 | 47.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Seasons Past Control | 95 | 139–187 | 42.6 | 0 | 6 | |
Orzhov Control | 7 | 8–14 | 36.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Prison | 47 | 35–71 | 33.0 | |||
Enchantress | 26 | 17–39 | 30.4 |