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 4 weeks.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Combo | 850 | 1656–1311 | 55.8 | 17 | 98 | 43 |
Storm | 27 | 42–49 | 46.2 | |||
Dimir Tendrils | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Dragonstorm | 20 | 35–38 | 47.9 | |||
Hazoret Storm | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Reanimator | 10 | 9–23 | 28.1 | |||
Recurring Nightmare | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Four Color Powerful Magic | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 7 | 7–16 | 30.4 | |||
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 32 | 72–46 | 61.0 | 2 | 8 | 1 |
Dubious Challenge | 3 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Warp World | 140 | 312–193 | 61.8 | 2 | 20 | 10 |
Maniac Combo | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Hypergenesis | 50 | 59–81 | 42.1 | 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 | 233 | 528–307 | 63.2 | 10 | 41 | 18 |
Izzet Twin | 201 | 462–262 | 63.8 | 8 | 32 | 18 |
Boros Twin | 30 | 64–42 | 60.4 | 2 | 8 | |
Metalwork Colossus | 6 | 13–14 | 48.1 | 1 | ||
Anvil Colossus | 5 | 13–9 | 59.1 | 1 | ||
Seismic Swans | 15 | 23–25 | 47.9 | |||
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 | 27 | 28–41 | 40.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Taking Turns | 3 | 2–10 | 16.7 | |||
Quest for Ula's Temple | 6 | 12–10 | 54.5 | |||
Izzet Ascension | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Soulflayer | 24 | 42–37 | 53.2 | 1 | ||
Oops All Lands | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Dredge | 13 | 14–29 | 32.6 | |||
Polymorph | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Protean Hulk Combo | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Storm Herald | 12 | 21–27 | 43.8 | |||
Enduring Ideal | 14 | 18–19 | 48.6 | |||
Ad Nauseam | 19 | 38–37 | 50.7 | |||
Intruder Alarm | 13 | 19–29 | 39.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Calibrated Blast | 7 | 19–11 | 63.3 | |||
Restore Balance | 15 | 26–33 | 44.1 | |||
Gyruda | 6 | 11–8 | 57.9 | |||
Belcher | 4 | 8–5 | 61.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Possibility Storm | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
Midnight Mass | 33 | 64–39 | 62.1 | 5 | ||
Phoenix Altar | 93 | 234–144 | 61.9 | 3 | 23 | 6 |