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 | 845 | 1183–1490 | 44.3 | 7 | 55 | 18 |
Mono Black Control | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Esper Control | 50 | 59–77 | 43.4 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Demonic Rising | 14 | 24–18 | 57.1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Mono Blue Control | 8 | 6–10 | 37.5 | |||
Dimir Control | 74 | 101–124 | 44.9 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
Azorius Control | 216 | 416–337 | 55.2 | 4 | 13 | 9 |
Cawblade | 69 | 145–93 | 60.9 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
Turbo Fog | 34 | 41–66 | 38.3 | 0 | 6 | |
Izzet Control | 28 | 31–51 | 37.8 | |||
Mardu Control | 12 | 7–20 | 25.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Mill | 26 | 17–63 | 21.3 | |||
Boros Control | 13 | 13–18 | 41.9 | |||
Cloudpost Control | 65 | 93–145 | 39.1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Azorius Cloudpost Control | 5 | 2–17 | 10.5 | |||
Blackpost | 16 | 23–36 | 39.0 | 1 | ||
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 31 | 49–63 | 43.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Cloudy With Sunny Spells | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Mono White Cloudpost Control | 3 | 8–6 | 57.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Grixis Control | 37 | 46–77 | 37.4 | 0 | 4 | |
Cruel Control | 5 | 6–13 | 31.6 | 0 | 2 | |
Stax | 2 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
Chandra Nalaar | 5 | 9–10 | 47.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Jeskai Control | 9 | 9–13 | 40.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Dragon Control | 7 | 11–17 | 39.3 | 1 | 1 | |
Izzet Dragons | 7 | 11–17 | 39.3 | 1 | 1 | |
Runeflare | 6 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |||
Ponza | 66 | 98–120 | 45.0 | 1 | ||
Mono White Control | 36 | 30–51 | 37.0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Life is Ez | 23 | 18–34 | 34.6 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Cycling Control | 34 | 50–62 | 44.6 | 2 | 11 | |
Astral Slide | 31 | 47–58 | 44.8 | 2 | 11 | |
Five Color Control | 6 | 2–14 | 12.5 | |||
Shrines | 4 | 0–10 | 0.0 | |||
Sultai Control | 5 | 2–11 | 15.4 | |||
Sultai Ultimatum | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Guildgate Control | 4 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |||
Bant Control | 7 | 11–11 | 50.0 | |||
Pox | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Four Color Counter Ghazi | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | 0 | 2 | |
Seasons Past Control | 45 | 66–81 | 44.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Orzhov Control | 5 | 8–8 | 50.0 | |||
Prison | 11 | 14–23 | 37.8 | |||
Enchantress | 10 | 14–22 | 38.9 |