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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Ramp | 9870 | 16492–17934–2 | 47.9 | 67 | 575 | 354 |
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 |