Penny Dreadful. The ultra-budget, thousands-of-cards Magic Online brewer's paradise with powerful cards, five 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. -
Card legality is set quarterly based on which cards are 1¢ at that time. The best way to search legal cards is with Scryfall. You can view the full legal cards list. -
How do I find or brew a decklist? 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 -
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. -
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 MTGO Traders. When you complete a five match league run for the first time ever you will get 1 tik credit with MTGO Traders (at the end of the month). -
We have five 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. -
Legality is determined at the release of a Standard-legal set on Magic Online. Prices are checked every hour for a week. Anything 1c or less for half or more of all checks is legal for the season. Cards from the just-released set are added (nothing removed) a couple of weeks later via a supplemental rotation after prices have settled a little. Any version of a card on the legal cards list is legal. The next rotation is in 3 weeks, 6 days.
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 754 | 1310–1203 | 52.1 | 16 | 108 | 32 |
| Mono Black Aggro | 24 | 33–48 | 40.7 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Heroic | 22 | 20–36 | 35.7 | |||
| Mono White Heroic | 4 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Azorius Heroic | 12 | 18–24 | 42.9 | |||
| Red Deck Wins | 157 | 359–243 | 59.6 | 7 | 32 | 7 |
| Goblins | 13 | 7–25 | 21.9 | |||
| Tokens | 162 | 283–250 | 53.1 | 4 | 36 | 10 |
| Selesnya Tokens | 9 | 3–21 | 12.5 | |||
| Mono Red Swarm | 102 | 178–149 | 54.4 | 2 | 29 | 6 |
| Mono Green Stompy | 89 | 191–133 | 59.0 | 3 | 18 | 4 |
| White Weenie | 63 | 95–110 | 46.3 | 1 | 7 | |
| Soldiers | 29 | 46–47 | 49.5 | 1 | 6 | |
| Warriors | 10 | 9–12 | 42.9 | |||
| Selesnya Little Kid | 7 | 9–11 | 45.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Gruul Aggro | 26 | 43–44 | 49.4 | 0 | 4 | |
| Merfolk | 11 | 3–16 | 15.8 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 14 | 8–24 | 25.0 | |||
| Affinity | 14 | 8–24 | 25.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Aggro | 7 | 3–11 | 21.4 | |||
| Madness | 2 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
| Gruul Madness | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Rakdos Vampires | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Voltron | 12 | 11–20 | 35.5 | |||
| Hexproof | 7 | 5–11 | 31.3 | |||
| Boros Auras | 3 | 6–5 | 54.5 | |||
| Knights | 86 | 167–125 | 57.2 | 1 | 5 | 9 |