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 1 week, 2 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Combo | 265 | 552–507 | 52.1 | 17 | 155 | |
Storm | 111 | 236–207 | 53.3 | 9 | 67 | |
Dragonstorm | 7 | 7–15 | 31.8 | 0 | 3 | |
Grixis Tendrils | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Izzet Storm | 103 | 227–190 | 54.4 | 9 | 63 | |
Swath Storm | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Reanimator | 4 | 9–8 | 52.9 | 0 | 2 | |
Worldgorger Dragon | 3 | 7–6 | 53.8 | 0 | 2 | |
Traditional Reanimator | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 23 | 64–41 | 61.0 | 2 | 17 | |
Dubious Challenge | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Warp World | 7 | 11–11 | 50.0 | 0 | 3 | |
Temur Glimpse | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Four Color Glimpse | 6 | 8–9 | 47.1 | 0 | 2 | |
Hypergenesis | 12 | 13–29 | 31.0 | 0 | 4 | |
Jeskai Ascendancy | 13 | 25–24 | 51.0 | 0 | 7 | |
Jeskai Jeskai Ascendancy | 13 | 25–24 | 51.0 | 0 | 7 | |
Myr Incubator | 4 | 7–7 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Metalwork Colossus | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Seismic Swans | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Heartless Summoning Combo | 4 | 8–9 | 47.1 | 0 | 3 | |
Taking Turns | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Jokulhaups Combo | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Soulflayer | 11 | 18–26 | 40.9 | 0 | 6 | |
Reanim8 Rack | 6 | 10–13 | 43.5 | 0 | 4 | |
Breakfast | 38 | 106–64 | 62.4 | 5 | 26 | |
Oops All Spells | 38 | 106–64 | 62.4 | 5 | 26 | |
Dredge | 2 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
Storm Herald | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Enduring Ideal | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Ad Nauseam | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Intruder Alarm | 6 | 11–12 | 47.8 | 0 | 3 | |
Restore Balance | 10 | 13–21 | 38.2 | 0 | 7 | |
Possibility Storm | 7 | 15–12 | 55.6 | 1 | 4 |