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 | 597 | 1168–1060–2 | 52.4 | 16 | 83 | 19 |
Storm | 22 | 18–44 | 29.0 | |||
Dimir Tendrils | 14 | 15–32 | 31.9 | |||
Reanimator | 186 | 380–344 | 52.5 | 3 | 26 | 4 |
Starlit Graves | 8 | 15–15 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Dimir Cycling Reanimator | 16 | 41–29 | 58.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Grozoth | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 161 | 322–297 | 52.0 | 3 | 24 | 4 |
Dimir Reanimator | 81 | 180–137 | 56.8 | 1 | 14 | 2 |
Mono Black Reanimator | 2 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Biovisionary | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 12 | 18–18 | 50.0 | |||
Warp World | 5 | 8–14 | 36.4 | |||
Actual Warp World | 5 | 8–14 | 36.4 | |||
Zubera Tribal | 6 | 7–12 | 36.8 | |||
Maniac Combo | 4 | 2–12 | 14.3 | |||
Hypergenesis | 156 | 379–250–1 | 60.3 | 8 | 32 | 6 |
Hyperwave | 66 | 184–97–1 | 65.5 | 5 | 16 | 4 |
New Perspectives | 51 | 86–107–1 | 44.6 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
Cat Wave | 87 | 198–141 | 58.4 | 4 | 13 | 7 |
Acid Wave | 22 | 55–40 | 57.9 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
Splendid Reclamation Combo | 9 | 5–13 | 27.8 | 0 | 2 | |
Monumental Ignus | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Mardu Life | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
Myr Incubator | 1 | |||||
Umbral Mantle | 1 | |||||
Retraction Helix Combo | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Quest for Ula's Temple | 5 | 7–10 | 41.2 | |||
Breakfast | 5 | 3–7 | 30.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Cephalid Breakfast | 3 | 3–6 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Druid Cephalid Breakfast | 3 | 3–6 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Hermit Dredge | 2 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Polymorph | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 |