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. -
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? 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 -
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 Cardhoarder. -
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. -
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, 2 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Combo | 695 | 1347–1061 | 55.9 | 13 | 76 | 39 |
Storm | 23 | 40–42 | 48.8 | |||
Dimir Tendrils | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Dragonstorm | 18 | 33–34 | 49.3 | |||
Hazoret Storm | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Reanimator | 9 | 13–20 | 39.4 | |||
Recurring Nightmare | 3 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
Four Color Powerful Magic | 3 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 4 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 31 | 72–45 | 61.5 | 2 | 8 | 1 |
Dubious Challenge | 3 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Warp World | 117 | 260–156 | 62.5 | 1 | 12 | 10 |
Maniac Combo | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Hypergenesis | 39 | 49–67 | 42.2 | 0 | 3 | |
Jeskai Ascendancy | 6 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |||
Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 5 | 5–8 | 38.5 | |||
Jeskai Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Twin | 189 | 407–248 | 62.1 | 7 | 29 | 15 |
Izzet Twin | 178 | 391–232 | 62.8 | 7 | 28 | 15 |
Metalwork Colossus | 6 | 12–12 | 50.0 | 1 | ||
Anvil Colossus | 5 | 12–7 | 63.2 | 1 | ||
Seismic Swans | 12 | 16–21 | 43.2 | |||
Eggs | 8 | 3–20 | 13.0 | |||
Heartless Summoning Combo | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Lookout-Buccaneer Combo | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Blazing Shoal Combo | 8 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |||
Taking Turns | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Quest for Ula's Temple | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
Soulflayer | 16 | 28–27 | 50.9 | 1 | ||
Oops All Lands | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Dredge | 12 | 12–27 | 30.8 | |||
Polymorph | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Protean Hulk Combo | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Storm Herald | 8 | 10–18 | 35.7 | |||
Enduring Ideal | 12 | 16–17 | 48.5 | |||
Ad Nauseam | 19 | 38–37 | 50.7 | |||
Intruder Alarm | 8 | 6–13 | 31.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Calibrated Blast | 7 | 19–11 | 63.3 | |||
Restore Balance | 13 | 25–29 | 46.3 | |||
Gyruda | 5 | 8–6 | 57.1 | |||
Belcher | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Midnight Mass | 27 | 55–28 | 66.3 | 5 | ||
Phoenix Altar | 86 | 213–131 | 61.9 | 3 | 22 | 6 |