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, 6 days.
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combo | 180 | 258–342–3 | 43.0 | 3 | 26 | 1 |
| Storm | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Reanimator | 52 | 76–100 | 43.2 | 1 | 5 | |
| Starlit Graves | 21 | 42–39 | 51.9 | 1 | 4 | |
| Traditional Reanimator | 31 | 34–61 | 35.8 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mono Black Reanimator | 11 | 23–24 | 48.9 | |||
| Necro Combo | 40 | 77–58–2 | 57.0 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| Faith Necro | 17 | 30–21–2 | 58.8 | 0 | 4 | |
| Deathmantle Necro | 20 | 41–31 | 56.9 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Biovisionary | 3 | 2–8 | 20.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mono Green Stormless Storm | 17 | 29–31–1 | 48.3 | 1 | 4 | |
| Dubious Challenge | 11 | 7–15 | 31.8 | |||
| Warp World | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Actual Warp World | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Zubera Tribal | 6 | 6–11 | 35.3 | |||
| Maniac Combo | 14 | 24–39 | 38.1 | 0 | 6 | |
| Hypergenesis | 1 | |||||
| Monumental Ignus | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Quest for Ula's Temple | 1 | |||||
| Stuffy Doll | 8 | 15–12 | 55.6 | 0 | 2 |