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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Control | 1009 | 1684–1623 | 50.9 | 5 | 66 | 43 |
Mono Black Control | 3 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Esper Control | 67 | 102–123 | 45.3 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Mono Blue Control | 9 | 8–12 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Dimir Control | 92 | 158–133 | 54.3 | 1 | 7 | 3 |
Azorius Control | 188 | 331–272 | 54.9 | 1 | 11 | 9 |
Cawblade | 47 | 79–75 | 51.3 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
Turbo Fog | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Izzet Control | 17 | 22–30 | 42.3 | 0 | 3 | |
Mardu Control | 10 | 11–19 | 36.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Mill | 21 | 13–43 | 23.2 | |||
Boros Control | 4 | 5–7 | 41.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Cloudpost Control | 178 | 297–285 | 51.0 | 0 | 7 | 11 |
Azorius Cloudpost Control | 72 | 135–104 | 56.5 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
Blackpost | 5 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |||
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 21 | 31–32 | 49.2 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Dimir Cloudpost Control | 8 | 12–18 | 40.0 | 1 | ||
Selesnya Cloudpost Control | 36 | 63–55 | 53.4 | 0 | 3 | |
Mono White Cloudpost Control | 8 | 9–22 | 29.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Grixis Control | 40 | 72–64 | 52.9 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Cruel Control | 14 | 33–23 | 58.9 | 1 | 3 | |
Stax | 11 | 13–15 | 46.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Jeskai Control | 9 | 11–17 | 39.3 | |||
Dragon Control | 18 | 23–38 | 37.7 | 0 | 3 | |
Izzet Dragons | 2 | 6–5 | 54.5 | 0 | 2 | |
Esper Dragons | 4 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
Runeflare | 7 | 5–14 | 26.3 | |||
Mono White Control | 41 | 62–74 | 45.6 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
Life is Ez | 2 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |||
Cycling Control | 8 | 8–12 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Astral Slide | 8 | 8–12 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Five Color Control | 15 | 15–28 | 34.9 | |||
Five Color Collected Conjuring | 5 | 7–9 | 43.8 | |||
Last Stand Control | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Sultai Control | 10 | 15–11 | 57.7 | |||
Bant Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Pox | 32 | 47–58 | 44.8 | |||
Seasons Past Control | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
Orzhov Control | 86 | 165–129 | 56.1 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
Prison | 138 | 294–225 | 56.6 | 1 | 13 | 10 |
Enchantress | 133 | 293–219 | 57.2 | 1 | 13 | 10 |