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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Control | 250 | 484–479 | 50.3 | 19 | 134 | |
Mono Black Control | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Esper Control | 10 | 13–18 | 41.9 | 0 | 3 | |
Dimir Control | 6 | 6–13 | 31.6 | 0 | 3 | |
Dreadful Inspiration | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | 0 | 2 | |
Azorius Control | 65 | 120–127 | 48.6 | 5 | 34 | |
Cawblade | 1 | 5–1 | 83.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Izzet Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Cloudpost Control | 22 | 43–41 | 51.2 | 1 | 11 | |
Azorius Cloudpost Control | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 3 | 4–8 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono White Cloudpost Control | 17 | 35–30 | 53.8 | 1 | 9 | |
Grixis Control | 1 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Stax | 4 | 6–7 | 46.2 | 0 | 4 | |
Chandra Nalaar | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Dragon Control | 5 | 5–9 | 35.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Izzet Dragons | 3 | 4–6 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Grixis Dragons | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Runeflare | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Ponza | 5 | 7–11 | 38.9 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono White Control | 3 | 2–5 | 28.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Life is Ez | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Cycling Control | 91 | 227–162 | 58.4 | 13 | 60 | |
Astral Slide | 91 | 227–162 | 58.4 | 13 | 60 | |
Five Color Control | 6 | 9–11 | 45.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Last Stand Control | 5 | 9–8 | 52.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Guildgate Control | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Pox | 4 | 2–10 | 16.7 | |||
Enchantments Control | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Orzhov Control | 13 | 29–29 | 50.0 | 0 | 10 | |
Prison | 7 | 8–13 | 38.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Enchantress | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 |