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, 3 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Control | 34749 | 55854–61253–43 | 47.7 | 267 | 2441 | 1285 |
Mono Black Control | 698 | 940–1310–5 | 41.8 | 4 | 32 | 10 |
Esper Control | 2412 | 4331–4085 | 51.5 | 19 | 164 | 130 |
Demonic Rising | 834 | 1539–1393–8 | 52.5 | 12 | 98 | 33 |
Paradox Haze Lock | 49 | 46–93–1 | 33.1 | 0 | 5 | |
Mono Blue Control | 647 | 849–1105 | 43.4 | 6 | 45 | 21 |
Turbo Xerox | 4 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
Dimir Control | 2224 | 3446–3684–10 | 48.3 | 14 | 158 | 81 |
Dreadful Inspiration | 24 | 35–31–3 | 53.0 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
Watery Oath | 9 | 18–25 | 41.9 | 0 | 5 | |
Azorius Control | 5421 | 9815–8498–3 | 53.6 | 60 | 406 | 323 |
Adam's Ale | 31 | 62–53 | 53.9 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
Cawblade | 429 | 811–668 | 54.8 | 9 | 47 | 20 |
Turbo Fog | 732 | 896–1380–1 | 39.4 | 3 | 44 | 5 |
Izzet Control | 687 | 1133–1195–2 | 48.7 | 7 | 55 | 22 |
Mardu Control | 421 | 656–773–1 | 45.9 | 2 | 21 | 16 |
Mill | 865 | 905–1817 | 33.2 | 2 | 15 | 12 |
Boros Control | 193 | 260–346 | 42.9 | 3 | 19 | 4 |
Cloudpost Control | 2069 | 3616–3629–5 | 49.9 | 15 | 135 | 94 |
Azorius Cloudpost Control | 474 | 901–765–5 | 54.1 | 4 | 31 | 26 |
Blackpost | 197 | 345–397 | 46.5 | 1 | 7 | 8 |
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 733 | 1250–1299 | 49.0 | 5 | 38 | 30 |
Dimir Cloudpost Control | 102 | 191–180 | 51.5 | 0 | 13 | 5 |
Izzet Cloudpost Control | 94 | 110–202 | 35.3 | 0 | 11 | |
Cloudy With Sunny Spells | 92 | 224–145 | 60.7 | 2 | 6 | 9 |
Selesnya Cloudpost Control | 141 | 299–208 | 59.0 | 3 | 19 | 12 |
Grixis Control | 1618 | 2542–3038–2 | 45.6 | 10 | 96 | 38 |
Cruel Control | 679 | 1065–1271–2 | 45.6 | 7 | 51 | 17 |
Stax | 1458 | 2212–2713–1 | 44.9 | 4 | 84 | 31 |
Necro Stax | 9 | 24–20 | 54.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Pollute the Planet | 175 | 395–289–1 | 57.7 | 4 | 31 | 8 |
Birthday Stax | 114 | 144–161 | 47.2 | 0 | 8 | 3 |
Chandra Nalaar | 112 | 177–218 | 44.8 | 0 | 11 | 4 |
Stagnant Control | 65 | 70–127 | 35.5 | 0 | 4 | |
Jeskai Control | 1040 | 1861–1866 | 49.9 | 11 | 95 | 42 |
Jeskai Approach | 85 | 159–151 | 51.3 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
Dragon Control | 487 | 718–1002 | 41.7 | 6 | 50 | 6 |
Izzet Dragons | 177 | 256–387 | 39.8 | 3 | 10 | 3 |
Esper Dragons | 54 | 82–94 | 46.6 | 0 | 6 | |
WUBR Dragons | 7 | 13–15 | 46.4 | |||
Grixis Dragons | 44 | 63–89 | 41.4 | 1 | 4 | |
Dimir Dragons | 14 | 13–28 | 31.7 | 0 | 2 | |
UBRG Dragons | 8 | 19–11 | 63.3 | 2 | 2 | |
Galleon Control | 116 | 211–212 | 49.9 | 1 | 12 | 4 |
Runeflare | 506 | 543–1102 | 33.0 | 0 | 10 | 3 |
Ponza | 2061 | 3149–3761–1 | 45.6 | 2 | 64 | 58 |
Mono White Control | 1265 | 2064–1956 | 51.3 | 4 | 67 | 73 |
Life is Ez | 436 | 708–587 | 54.7 | 1 | 4 | 41 |
Dynavolt Tower | 265 | 397–501 | 44.2 | 1 | 11 | 6 |
Cycling Control | 1307 | 1924–2351–2 | 45.0 | 21 | 137 | 34 |
Astral Slide | 1164 | 1741–2087–1 | 45.5 | 21 | 136 | 30 |
Five Color Control | 614 | 731–1243 | 37.0 | 2 | 41 | 9 |
Five Color Collected Conjuring | 144 | 140–332 | 29.7 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Shrines | 120 | 98–273 | 26.4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Sultai Control | 808 | 1318–1499 | 46.8 | 5 | 68 | 23 |
Sultai Ultimatum | 102 | 155–208 | 42.7 | 5 | ||
Guildgate Control | 1002 | 1810–1733 | 51.1 | 12 | 109 | 44 |
Bant Control | 495 | 753–951 | 44.2 | 3 | 16 | 13 |
Temur Reclamation | 153 | 264–260 | 50.4 | 2 | 13 | 8 |
Pox | 1138 | 1780–2177 | 45.0 | 0 | 37 | 29 |
Enchantments Control | 139 | 211–216 | 49.4 | 5 | 14 | 5 |
Four Color Counter Ghazi | 236 | 388–462 | 45.6 | 1 | 51 | 3 |
Seasons Past Control | 403 | 670–785 | 46.0 | 0 | 11 | 8 |
Orzhov Control | 953 | 1946–1527 | 56.0 | 26 | 178 | 57 |
Prison | 686 | 1058–1172 | 47.4 | 3 | 46 | 30 |
Enchantress | 541 | 879–923 | 48.8 | 2 | 32 | 26 |