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 9 weeks, 2 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Combo | 37550 | 62769–64050–18 | 49.5 | 433 | 2814 | 1693 |
Storm | 8181 | 13344–14292–4 | 48.3 | 96 | 484 | 398 |
Sultai Tendrils | 76 | 101–167–1 | 37.7 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Dimir Tendrils | 1743 | 3165–2929–3 | 51.9 | 33 | 128 | 86 |
Dark Tide | 47 | 110–68 | 61.8 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
Dragonstorm | 633 | 958–1242 | 43.5 | 6 | 43 | 11 |
Hazoret Storm | 544 | 749–971 | 43.5 | 1 | 22 | 15 |
Simic Storm | 336 | 490–619 | 44.2 | 0 | 11 | 9 |
Reclamation Storm | 52 | 69–115 | 37.5 | 0 | 5 | |
Citadel Storm | 352 | 474–743 | 38.9 | 1 | 10 | 8 |
High Tide | 2001 | 3819–3061 | 55.5 | 30 | 114 | 161 |
Grixis Tendrils | 207 | 248–412 | 37.6 | 0 | 9 | 6 |
Stormpost | 98 | 171–170 | 50.1 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
Mono Blue Post Desire | 64 | 108–117 | 48.0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
Paradoxical Outcome Storm | 195 | 133–450 | 22.8 | 1 | ||
Izzet Storm | 982 | 1615–1782 | 47.5 | 11 | 80 | 43 |
Swath Storm | 91 | 136–181 | 42.9 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
Song Storm | 62 | 54–103 | 34.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Channel Storm | 328 | 844–430 | 66.2 | 14 | 51 | 43 |