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 13 minutes, 21 seconds.
Congratulations to thewatchwander, winner of The Penny Dreadful 500 (Season 34)
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | 5787 | 10617–11733–43 | 47.5 | 268 | 2461 | |
| Azorius Control | 967 | 1971–1851–3 | 51.6 | 70 | 453 | |
| Adam's Ale | 15 | 40–28 | 58.8 | 1 | 7 |
Decks
Cards
Meta Share By Season
Matchups
| Archetype | Record | Win % |
|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 18–7 | 72.0 |
| Heroic | 4–2 | 66.7 |
| Mono White Heroic | 4–2 | 66.7 |
| Red Deck Wins | 8–5 | 61.5 |
| Mono Red Devotion | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| White Weenie | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Odric Keywords | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Zombies | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Merfolk | 3–0 | 100.0 |
| Combo | 8–6 | 57.1 |
| Reanimator | 1–1 | 50.0 |
| Traditional Reanimator | 1–1 | 50.0 |
| Warp World | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Actual Warp World | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Hypergenesis | 5–3 | 62.5 |
| Cat Wave | 1–2 | 33.3 |
| Control | 7–7 | 50.0 |
| Mono Black Control | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Demonic Rising | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Turbo Fog | 1–1 | 50.0 |
| Grixis Control | 2–3 | 40.0 |
| Cruel Control | 2–3 | 40.0 |
| Stax | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Dragon Control | 1–2 | 33.3 |
| Esper Dragons | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Grixis Dragons | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Dimir Dragons | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Ponza | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Aggro-Combo | 3–5 | 37.5 |
| Aristocrats | 0–3 | 0.0 |
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 0–2 | 0.0 |
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Burn | 3–1 | 75.0 |
| Turbo Myth | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Aggro-Control | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Izzet Tempo | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Midrange | 3–1 | 75.0 |
| Jund | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Graveyard Value | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| -1/-1 Counters | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Hellion Whip | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Ramp | 1–1 | 50.0 |
| Devoid Cruelty | 0–1 | 0.0 |