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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Ramp | 9878 | 16502–17956–2 | 47.9 | 67 | 575 | 354 |
Villainous Wealth | 129 | 135–269 | 33.4 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Rofellos Ramp | 2049 | 4251–3330 | 56.1 | 36 | 245 | 131 |
Wild Pair | 109 | 178–200 | 47.1 | 0 | 6 | 4 |
Channel-Rofellos | 611 | 1530–877 | 63.6 | 31 | 171 | 60 |
Cloudpost Ramp | 4517 | 7913–8348 | 48.7 | 23 | 195 | 155 |
Eldrazipost | 153 | 173–304 | 36.3 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Locus Awakening | 57 | 69–117 | 37.1 | 1 | ||
Golgari Post | 206 | 392–380 | 50.8 | 0 | 5 | 9 |
Arcum's Not Astrolabe | 156 | 295–292 | 50.3 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Greenpost | 2773 | 5189–5075 | 50.6 | 22 | 151 | 107 |
Gruul Post | 325 | 558–603 | 48.1 | 1 | 17 | 11 |
Simic Post | 372 | 592–673 | 46.8 | 0 | 10 | 16 |
Temurpost | 26 | 52–56 | 48.1 | 2 | ||
Devoid Cruelty | 70 | 150–130 | 53.6 | 3 | 19 | 1 |
Domain | 156 | 193–295 | 39.5 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
Temur Bombardment | 15 | 24–24 | 50.0 | 1 | ||
Selvala Tokens | 20 | 54–42 | 56.3 | 1 | ||
Summer Bloom Ramp | 245 | 331–478 | 40.9 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
Historic Bloom | 71 | 103–132 | 43.8 | 3 | ||
Reclamation at Wake | 68 | 114–94 | 54.8 | 4 | ||
Sarkhan's Unsealing Ramp | 30 | 43–41 | 51.2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Eureka! | 93 | 181–178 | 50.4 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Defenders | 77 | 67–135 | 33.2 | 1 | ||
Carth Superfriends | 369 | 512–682 | 42.9 | 1 | 8 | 7 |
Jund Carth | 56 | 70–91 | 43.5 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Applejacks | 203 | 316–363 | 46.5 | 2 | 8 | 7 |
Orcish Aids | 10 | 16–17 | 48.5 | 1 | ||
Field Ramp | 236 | 334–442 | 43.0 | 0 | 15 | 3 |
Superfriends | 11 | 9–16 | 36.0 |