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 | 1113 | 1897–1829 | 50.9 | 14 | 81 | 64 |
Storm | 432 | 785–694 | 53.1 | 11 | 39 | 27 |
Sultai Tendrils | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Dragonstorm | 31 | 45–61 | 42.5 | 0 | 2 | |
Citadel Storm | 6 | 3–15 | 16.7 | |||
High Tide | 376 | 729–574 | 55.9 | 11 | 37 | 27 |
Paradoxical Outcome Storm | 7 | 3–16 | 15.8 | |||
Izzet Storm | 3 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |||
Reanimator | 5 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 4 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |||
Dimir Reanimator | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Orzhov Reanimator | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Oriss Genesis | 15 | 21–25 | 45.7 | 1 | ||
Biovisionary | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Warp World | 6 | 5–14 | 26.3 | |||
Temur Glimpse | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Four Color Glimpse | 5 | 4–12 | 25.0 | |||
Maniac Combo | 3 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Hypergenesis | 37 | 44–61 | 41.9 | |||
Jeskai Ascendancy | 6 | 3–12 | 20.0 | |||
Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 5 | 3–9 | 25.0 | |||
Jeskai Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Seismic Swans | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
Eggs | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Turntimber Ranger | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Blazing Shoal Combo | 51 | 83–76 | 52.2 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Retraction Helix Combo | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Taking Turns | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Quest for Ula's Temple | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Izzet Ascension | 24 | 48–39 | 55.2 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Soulflayer | 5 | 7–12 | 36.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Breakfast | 68 | 134–90 | 59.8 | 0 | 6 | 8 |
Oops All Spells | 24 | 53–36 | 59.6 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Unctus | 44 | 81–54 | 60.0 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
Oops All Lands | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Dredge | 243 | 434–386 | 52.9 | 2 | 17 | 17 |
Polymorph | 31 | 44–47 | 48.4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Dice Factory | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Storm Herald | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Enduring Ideal | 3 | 0–10 | 0.0 | |||
Ad Nauseam | 10 | 3–20 | 13.0 | |||
GreenTwin | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
Intruder Alarm | 4 | 7–7 | 50.0 | |||
Calibrated Blast | 13 | 21–29 | 42.0 | |||
Restore Balance | 17 | 20–26 | 43.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Gyruda | 8 | 9–20 | 31.0 | |||
Belcher | 95 | 185–167 | 52.6 | 0 | 11 | 6 |
Endless Belch | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Possibility Storm | 2 | 2–1 | 66.7 |