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-Control | 77 | 154–155 | 49.8 | 2 | 50 | |
| Curses | 4 | 6–12 | 33.3 | 0 | 2 | |
| Battle of Wits | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Displace Loop | 8 | 20–12 | 62.5 | 1 | 7 | |
| Familiars | 8 | 20–12 | 62.5 | 1 | 7 | |
| Hedron Alignment | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Solar Flare | 3 | 10–6 | 62.5 | 0 | 3 | |
| Plasma Swans | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mass Land Destruction | 57 | 108–112 | 49.1 | 1 | 35 | |
| Wildfire | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Borderpost Wildfire | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Jokulhaups Control | 56 | 108–110 | 49.5 | 1 | 35 | |
| Grixis Jokulhaups Control | 7 | 15–15 | 50.0 | 0 | 3 | |
| Jeskai Jokulhaups Control | 5 | 9–12 | 42.9 | 0 | 4 | |
| Temur Jokulhaups Control | 22 | 37–41 | 47.4 | 0 | 13 | |
| Jund Jokulhaups Control | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | 0 | 2 | |
| WUBR Jokulhaups Control | 9 | 21–17 | 55.3 | 1 | 5 | |
| Mardu Jokulhaups Control | 11 | 22–20 | 52.4 | 0 | 8 | |
| Resurgent Belief | 1 | 3–3 | 50.0 |