Penny Dreadful. The ultra-budget, thousands-of-cards Magic Online brewer's paradise with powerful cards, seven 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 2¢ or less 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 seven 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 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 5 weeks, 6 days.
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combo | 478 | 776–749 | 50.9 | 5 | 27 | 18 |
| Storm | 26 | 13–53 | 19.7 | |||
| Dimir Tendrils | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Hazoret Storm | 6 | 2–18 | 10.0 | |||
| Grixis Tendrils | 5 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |||
| Paradoxical Outcome Storm | 4 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Izzet Storm | 6 | 8–9 | 47.1 | |||
| Swath Storm | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Reanimator | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Oriss Genesis | 4 | 7–5 | 58.3 | |||
| Necrotic Ooze Combo | 26 | 39–32 | 54.9 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Dubious Challenge | 6 | 9–16 | 36.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Maniac Combo | 6 | 5–11 | 31.3 | |||
| Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Twin | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Eggs | 4 | 4–10 | 28.6 | |||
| Heartless Myr | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Retraction Helix Combo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Taking Turns | 3 | 0–9 | 0.0 | |||
| Izzet Ascension | 73 | 123–93 | 56.9 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Ominous Good | 7 | 7–18 | 28.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Jokulhaups | 160 | 330–240 | 57.9 | 2 | 13 | 7 |
| Soulflayer | 37 | 72–53 | 57.6 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Breakfast | 43 | 88–50 | 63.8 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| Oops All Spells | 43 | 88–50 | 63.8 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| Dredge | 30 | 34–49 | 41.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Polymorph | 5 | 8–6 | 57.1 | 1 | ||
| Protean Hulk Combo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Dice Factory | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Enduring Ideal | 10 | 13–25 | 34.2 | 0 | 1 |