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 2 weeks, 2 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Combo | 37163 | 62153–63378–18 | 49.5 | 427 | 2764 | 1682 |
Reanimator | 5461 | 10357–9047–4 | 53.4 | 57 | 463 | 272 |
Recurring Nightmare | 1010 | 1923–1640 | 54.0 | 8 | 86 | 51 |
Dragon Nightmare | 563 | 1170–882 | 57.0 | 8 | 65 | 34 |
Jund Nightmare | 46 | 77–96 | 44.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Four Color Powerful Magic | 39 | 88–72 | 55.0 | 0 | 3 | |
Worldgorger Dragon | 987 | 2047–1542 | 57.0 | 10 | 77 | 75 |
Double Dragon | 200 | 433–354 | 55.0 | 1 | 11 | 11 |
Starlit Graves | 41 | 82–76 | 51.9 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
Dimir Cycling Reanimator | 59 | 128–99 | 56.4 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
8 Goyf | 41 | 70–86 | 44.9 | 0 | 7 | |
Living Death | 249 | 575–388 | 59.7 | 5 | 24 | 16 |
Excruciator Combo | 100 | 223–135 | 62.3 | 2 | 11 | 11 |
Grozoth | 69 | 121–95 | 56.0 | 2 | 8 | 3 |
Traditional Reanimator | 2931 | 5311–4996–4 | 51.5 | 31 | 253 | 121 |
Rakdos Reanimator | 458 | 974–796 | 55.0 | 2 | 35 | 26 |
Dimir Reanimator | 243 | 386–438 | 46.8 | 2 | 20 | 3 |
Mono Black Reanimator | 1496 | 2945–2475–1 | 54.3 | 15 | 130 | 79 |
Grixis Reanimator | 53 | 87–95 | 47.8 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Orzhov Reanimator | 30 | 65–50 | 56.5 | 0 | 5 | 1 |