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, 5 days.
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combo | 206 | 363–396 | 47.8 | 15 | 111 | |
| Storm | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Citadel Storm | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Necrotic Ooze Combo | 5 | 13–7 | 65.0 | 1 | 3 | |
| Warp World | 105 | 214–195 | 52.3 | 10 | 69 | |
| Temur Glimpse | 22 | 39–42 | 48.1 | 2 | 16 | |
| Boros Glimpse | 83 | 175–153 | 53.4 | 8 | 53 | |
| Hypergenesis | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | 0 | 1 | |
| Metalwork Colossus | 3 | 2–4 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Anvil Colossus | 3 | 2–4 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Seismic Swans | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Heartless Summoning Combo | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Blazing Shoal Combo | 5 | 6–11 | 35.3 | 0 | 2 | |
| Breakfast | 17 | 18–35 | 34.0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Oops All Spells | 17 | 18–35 | 34.0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Oops All Lands | 13 | 26–25 | 51.0 | 1 | 6 | |
| Dredge | 25 | 33–52 | 38.8 | 1 | 9 | |
| Insidious Roots Dredge | 24 | 33–49 | 40.2 | 1 | 9 | |
| Storm Herald | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Tibalt's Trickery | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | 0 | 1 | |
| Intruder Alarm | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Calibrated Blast | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
| Restore Balance | 13 | 22–22 | 50.0 | 1 | 7 | |
| Gyruda | 2 | 7–4 | 63.6 | 0 | 2 |