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 | 779 | 1140–1241 | 47.9 | 10 | 73 | 34 |
Storm | 57 | 89–106 | 45.6 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Dragonstorm | 5 | 7–10 | 41.2 | |||
Hazoret Storm | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Citadel Storm | 51 | 82–94 | 46.6 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Reanimator | 14 | 11–22 | 33.3 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 14 | 11–22 | 33.3 | |||
Dimir Reanimator | 2 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
Grixis Reanimator | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Necro Combo | 44 | 78–61 | 56.1 | 3 | 9 | 2 |
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 14 | 40–25 | 61.5 | 2 | ||
Mono Green Stormless Storm | 3 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
Dubious Challenge | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Warp World | 11 | 12–18 | 40.0 | |||
Maniac Combo | 6 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |||
Hypergenesis | 26 | 43–45 | 48.9 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
New Perspectives | 5 | 3–13 | 18.8 | |||
Jeskai Ascendancy | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Metalwork Colossus | 75 | 120–107 | 52.9 | 1 | 10 | 3 |
Anvil Colossus | 53 | 91–69 | 56.9 | 1 | 10 | 3 |
Seismic Swans | 9 | 11–17 | 39.3 | |||
Eggs | 6 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
Lookout-Buccaneer Combo | 3 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
Blazing Shoal Combo | 97 | 134–174 | 43.5 | 1 | 16 | 1 |
Taking Turns | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Quest for Ula's Temple | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Izzet Ascension | 15 | 13–25 | 34.2 | 1 | 1 | |
Soulflayer | 11 | 16–15 | 51.6 | |||
Reanim8 Rack | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Oops All Lands | 43 | 70–54 | 56.5 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
Dredge | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Polymorph | 3 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Protean Hulk Combo | 3 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
Dice Factory | 3 | 2–11 | 15.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Storm Herald | 5 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |||
Enduring Ideal | 6 | 6–11 | 35.3 | |||
Chain of Acid | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Tibalt's Trickery | 20 | 23–38 | 37.7 | |||
Intruder Alarm | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Calibrated Blast | 17 | 23–28 | 45.1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Restore Balance | 52 | 64–92 | 41.0 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
Gyruda | 21 | 55–32 | 63.2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Belcher | 19 | 26–31 | 45.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Possibility Storm | 6 | 7–7 | 50.0 | |||
Midnight Mass | 142 | 248–180 | 57.9 | 3 | 13 | 16 |