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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| Combo-Control | 175 | 318–319 | 49.9 | 0 | 8 | 10 |
| Burning Vengeance | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Battle of Wits | 20 | 27–57 | 32.1 | 1 | ||
| Shared Fate | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Sunforger | 13 | 24–35 | 40.7 | |||
| Displace Loop | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Familiars | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Curious Niv-Mizzet | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Solar Flare | 6 | 9–13 | 40.9 | 1 | ||
| Plasma Swans | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mass Land Destruction | 19 | 33–32 | 50.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Wildfire | 19 | 33–32 | 50.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Borderpost Wildfire | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Resurgent Belief | 6 | 9–13 | 40.9 | |||
| Greasefang | 102 | 211–158 | 57.2 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Esper Greasefang | 34 | 71–54 | 56.8 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Orzhov Greasefang | 61 | 132–94 | 58.4 | 0 | 5 | 5 |