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, 5 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Combo-Control | 10783 | 18787–18544–13 | 50.3 | 98 | 824 | 508 |
Curses | 597 | 976–1089–1 | 47.3 | 5 | 39 | 18 |
Oketra's Monument | 20 | 28–36 | 43.8 | 0 | 3 | |
Azorius Oketra's Monument | 11 | 25–22 | 53.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono White Oketra's Monument | 9 | 3–14 | 17.6 | 0 | 2 | |
Burning Vengeance | 118 | 126–213 | 37.2 | 0 | 8 | 2 |
Cruel Combo-Control | 396 | 846–695 | 54.9 | 13 | 82 | 9 |
Battle of Wits | 832 | 1230–2020 | 37.8 | 0 | 22 | 11 |
Approach Necro | 33 | 87–53–1 | 62.1 | 2 | 16 | 1 |
Shared Fate | 86 | 115–157 | 42.3 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
Swarm Intelligence | 51 | 98–115 | 46.0 | 3 | 10 | 1 |
Sunforger | 74 | 87–154 | 36.1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Pickles | 171 | 336–279 | 54.6 | 1 | 11 | 10 |
Mindcrank | 981 | 2076–1459 | 58.7 | 13 | 101 | 90 |
Dragoncrank | 65 | 149–92 | 61.8 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
Displace Loop | 265 | 457–413–2 | 52.5 | 5 | 38 | 11 |
Peregrine Drake | 123 | 229–206–2 | 52.6 | 3 | 19 | 4 |
Familiars | 62 | 91–80 | 53.2 | 2 | 12 | 4 |
Hedron Alignment | 79 | 72–163 | 30.6 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Yosei Vat | 94 | 187–168 | 52.7 | 4 | 13 | 3 |
Lich's Mastery | 152 | 200–274 | 42.2 | 0 | 5 | 4 |
Curious Niv-Mizzet | 70 | 74–123–1 | 37.6 | 0 | 10 | 1 |
Hive Mind | 378 | 590–634 | 48.2 | 2 | 13 | 18 |
Zur's Weirding | 397 | 773–677 | 53.3 | 2 | 22 | 27 |
Solar Flare | 367 | 657–556 | 54.2 | 8 | 36 | 20 |
Plasma Swans | 464 | 819–713 | 53.5 | 5 | 46 | 27 |
Liliana's Contract | 53 | 50–123 | 28.9 | |||
Mass Land Destruction | 4286 | 7729–7062–6 | 52.3 | 33 | 301 | 208 |
Wildfire | 1681 | 2864–3022–6 | 48.7 | 6 | 93 | 58 |
Thryx-Wildfire | 300 | 562–552 | 50.4 | 1 | 5 | 15 |
Borderpost Wildfire | 594 | 1084–985 | 52.4 | 1 | 31 | 27 |
Jokulhaups Control | 2605 | 4865–4040 | 54.6 | 27 | 208 | 150 |
Grixis Jokulhaups Control | 741 | 1409–1179 | 54.4 | 14 | 81 | 34 |
Jeskai Jokulhaups Control | 561 | 1064–739 | 59.0 | 2 | 22 | 51 |
Temur Jokulhaups Control | 454 | 842–700 | 54.6 | 3 | 30 | 28 |
Jund Jokulhaups Control | 202 | 381–366 | 51.0 | 3 | 22 | 5 |
WUBR Jokulhaups Control | 241 | 481–405 | 54.3 | 3 | 19 | 14 |
Mardu Jokulhaups Control | 229 | 423–364 | 53.7 | 0 | 16 | 13 |
Thopter-Sword | 211 | 370–287 | 56.3 | 0 | 7 | 24 |
Azorius Thopter-Sword | 90 | 181–111 | 62.0 | 0 | 4 | 11 |
Dimir Thopter-Sword | 70 | 100–92 | 52.1 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
Esper Thopter-Sword | 42 | 68–66 | 50.7 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
Archfiend Alteration | 19 | 39–25 | 60.9 | 3 | ||
Resurgent Belief | 149 | 180–268 | 40.2 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
Greasefang | 116 | 231–169 | 57.8 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
Esper Greasefang | 34 | 71–54 | 56.8 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Orzhov Greasefang | 75 | 152–105 | 59.1 | 0 | 6 | 6 |