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, 4 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Combo | 1148 | 2210–1813 | 54.9 | 27 | 152 | 51 |
Storm | 38 | 58–69 | 45.7 | 0 | 2 | |
Dimir Tendrils | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Dragonstorm | 23 | 38–43 | 46.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Hazoret Storm | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
Simic Storm | 3 | 8–6 | 57.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Reanimator | 11 | 8–23 | 25.8 | |||
Grozoth | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 8 | 7–17 | 29.2 | |||
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 58 | 125–90 | 58.1 | 3 | 11 | 3 |
Dubious Challenge | 3 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Warp World | 178 | 397–256 | 60.8 | 5 | 30 | 10 |
Boros Glimpse | 135 | 316–188 | 62.7 | 5 | 29 | 8 |
Maniac Combo | 4 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Hypergenesis | 56 | 70–96 | 42.2 | 0 | 3 | |
Jeskai Ascendancy | 6 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |||
Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 5 | 5–8 | 38.5 | |||
Jeskai Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Fake-Twin | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Metalwork Colossus | 6 | 13–14 | 48.1 | 1 | ||
Anvil Colossus | 5 | 13–9 | 59.1 | 1 | ||
Seismic Swans | 16 | 25–26 | 49.0 | |||
Eggs | 8 | 3–20 | 13.0 | |||
Heartless Summoning Combo | 3 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Lookout-Buccaneer Combo | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Blazing Shoal Combo | 44 | 41–70 | 36.9 | 0 | 2 | |
Taking Turns | 11 | 7–19 | 26.9 | |||
Quest for Ula's Temple | 14 | 31–23 | 57.4 | 0 | 3 | |
Izzet Ascension | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Soulflayer | 37 | 69–69 | 50.0 | 1 | ||
Oops All Lands | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Dredge | 23 | 30–54 | 35.7 | |||
Polymorph | 4 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Protean Hulk Combo | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Storm Herald | 11 | 20–23 | 46.5 | |||
Enduring Ideal | 14 | 20–19 | 51.3 | |||
Ad Nauseam | 23 | 45–44 | 50.6 | |||
Intruder Alarm | 22 | 32–47 | 40.5 | 0 | 3 | |
Calibrated Blast | 8 | 20–12 | 62.5 | |||
Restore Balance | 16 | 26–34 | 43.3 | |||
Gyruda | 7 | 14–10 | 58.3 | |||
Belcher | 4 | 8–5 | 61.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Possibility Storm | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
Midnight Mass | 44 | 97–59 | 62.2 | 2 | 5 | 5 |
Phoenix Altar | 129 | 297–201 | 59.6 | 4 | 32 | 7 |
Actual Twin | 313 | 706–427 | 62.3 | 13 | 59 | 23 |
Izzet Twin | 278 | 634–375 | 62.8 | 11 | 51 | 23 |
Boros Twin | 35 | 72–52 | 58.1 | 2 | 8 |