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 | 1022 | 1707–1722 | 49.8 | 15 | 111 | 41 |
Storm | 38 | 35–92 | 27.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Dragonstorm | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Citadel Storm | 22 | 29–50 | 36.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Grixis Tendrils | 3 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
Paradoxical Outcome Storm | 11 | 5–32 | 13.5 | |||
Reanimator | 9 | 3–16 | 15.8 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 9 | 3–16 | 15.8 | |||
Rakdos Reanimator | 3 | 0–10 | 0.0 | |||
Orzhov Reanimator | 3 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 43 | 77–60 | 56.2 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Dubious Challenge | 7 | 15–15 | 50.0 | |||
Warp World | 324 | 716–507 | 58.5 | 10 | 69 | 20 |
Temur Glimpse | 79 | 174–141 | 55.2 | 2 | 16 | 4 |
Boros Glimpse | 238 | 530–353 | 60.0 | 8 | 53 | 16 |
Hypergenesis | 13 | 18–20 | 47.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Splendid Reclamation Combo | 8 | 7–14 | 33.3 | |||
Jeskai Ascendancy | 6 | 9–15 | 37.5 | 1 | ||
Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 6 | 9–15 | 37.5 | 1 | ||
Fake-Twin | 2 | 1–8 | 11.1 | |||
Metalwork Colossus | 7 | 5–11 | 31.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Anvil Colossus | 3 | 2–4 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Upheaval Colossus | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Seismic Swans | 6 | 4–10 | 28.6 | |||
Eggs | 4 | 4–12 | 25.0 | |||
Heartless Summoning Combo | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | 1 | 1 | |
Blazing Shoal Combo | 14 | 25–30 | 45.5 | 0 | 2 | |
Taking Turns | 10 | 5–11 | 31.3 | |||
Quest for Ula's Temple | 3 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |||
Izzet Ascension | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Ominous Good | 3 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Soulflayer | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Breakfast | 55 | 91–84 | 52.0 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
Oops All Spells | 54 | 91–79 | 53.5 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
Oops All Lands | 95 | 167–123 | 57.6 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
Dredge | 152 | 217–266 | 44.9 | 1 | 9 | 4 |
Insidious Roots Dredge | 131 | 189–225 | 45.7 | 1 | 9 | 3 |
Polymorph | 7 | 5–16 | 23.8 | |||
Storm Herald | 13 | 22–27 | 44.9 | |||
Enduring Ideal | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Tibalt's Trickery | 15 | 24–29 | 45.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Intruder Alarm | 7 | 4–14 | 22.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Calibrated Blast | 23 | 38–42 | 47.5 | 2 | ||
Restore Balance | 54 | 93–81 | 53.4 | 1 | 7 | 5 |
Gyruda | 10 | 19–16 | 54.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Belcher | 4 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
Possibility Storm | 11 | 11–32 | 25.6 | |||
Midnight Mass | 14 | 23–18 | 56.1 | 1 |