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 | 757 | 1265–1309 | 49.1 | 2 | 50 | 29 |
Curses | 94 | 151–172 | 46.7 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Burning Vengeance | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Cruel Combo-Control | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Battle of Wits | 30 | 35–92 | 27.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Pickles | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Displace Loop | 12 | 33–14 | 70.2 | 1 | 7 | 2 |
Familiars | 12 | 33–14 | 70.2 | 1 | 7 | 2 |
Hedron Alignment | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Yosei Vat | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Lich's Mastery | 10 | 13–23 | 36.1 | |||
Curious Niv-Mizzet | 5 | 2–13 | 13.3 | |||
Hive Mind | 16 | 10–34 | 22.7 | |||
Zur's Weirding | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
Solar Flare | 39 | 70–60 | 53.8 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Plasma Swans | 14 | 21–26 | 44.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Liliana's Contract | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
Mass Land Destruction | 487 | 865–781 | 52.6 | 1 | 35 | 23 |
Wildfire | 11 | 14–18 | 43.8 | |||
Borderpost Wildfire | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Jokulhaups Control | 476 | 851–763 | 52.7 | 1 | 35 | 23 |
Grixis Jokulhaups Control | 40 | 65–71 | 47.8 | 0 | 3 | |
Jeskai Jokulhaups Control | 81 | 143–109 | 56.7 | 0 | 4 | 8 |
Temur Jokulhaups Control | 193 | 366–317 | 53.6 | 0 | 13 | 11 |
Jund Jokulhaups Control | 31 | 46–64 | 41.8 | 0 | 2 | |
WUBR Jokulhaups Control | 46 | 81–66 | 55.1 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
Mardu Jokulhaups Control | 70 | 143–107 | 57.2 | 0 | 8 | 2 |
Resurgent Belief | 31 | 47–57 | 45.2 | 1 |