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 7 weeks, 2 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Control | 713 | 1187–1132 | 51.2 | 13 | 70 | 30 |
Esper Control | 90 | 190–135 | 58.5 | 1 | 5 | 9 |
Mono Blue Control | 8 | 5–16 | 23.8 | |||
Dimir Control | 16 | 14–40 | 25.9 | |||
Azorius Control | 199 | 397–269 | 59.6 | 9 | 35 | 9 |
Turbo Fog | 55 | 54–64 | 45.8 | 0 | 2 | |
Izzet Control | 39 | 89–62 | 58.9 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
Mardu Control | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Mill | 17 | 14–41 | 25.5 | |||
Boros Control | 24 | 31–38 | 44.9 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Grixis Control | 32 | 32–58 | 35.6 | 0 | 2 | |
Cruel Control | 18 | 20–35 | 36.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Stax | 21 | 24–38 | 38.7 | |||
Birthday Stax | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Jeskai Control | 15 | 20–25 | 44.4 | 1 | 1 | |
Dragon Control | 5 | 11–9 | 55.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Runeflare | 9 | 13–20 | 39.4 | |||
Mono White Control | 49 | 85–87 | 49.4 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Cycling Control | 4 | 2–10 | 16.7 | |||
Astral Slide | 4 | 2–10 | 16.7 | |||
Five Color Control | 7 | 14–11 | 56.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Bant Control | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Enchantments Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Seasons Past Control | 10 | 20–20 | 50.0 | |||
Orzhov Control | 73 | 128–111 | 53.6 | 1 | 8 | 5 |
Prison | 22 | 24–44 | 35.3 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Enchantress | 6 | 3–8 | 27.3 |