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 2 days, 21 hours.
Congratulations to chickeninthebrain, winner of The Penny Dreadful 500 (Season 32)
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combo | 258 | 629–502 | 55.6 | 26 | 149 | |
| Storm | 9 | 14–16 | 46.7 | 0 | 2 | |
| Dragonstorm | 7 | 12–11 | 52.2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Hazoret Storm | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Simic Storm | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Reanimator | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Recurring Nightmare | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Four Color Powerful Magic | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Necrotic Ooze Combo | 16 | 48–33 | 59.3 | 3 | 11 | |
| Warp World | 44 | 113–80 | 58.5 | 5 | 29 | |
| Hypergenesis | 7 | 16–15 | 51.6 | 0 | 3 | |
| "Twin" | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Seismic Swans | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Blazing Shoal Combo | 9 | 11–21 | 34.4 | 0 | 2 | |
| Quest for Ula's Temple | 4 | 5–9 | 35.7 | 0 | 3 | |
| Soulflayer | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Enduring Ideal | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Ad Nauseam | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
| Intruder Alarm | 6 | 7–14 | 33.3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Belcher | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Midnight Mass | 7 | 17–15 | 53.1 | 1 | 4 | |
| Phoenix Altar | 50 | 143–99 | 59.1 | 4 | 32 | |
| Actual Twin | 97 | 243–182 | 57.2 | 13 | 58 | |
| Izzet Twin | 84 | 212–157 | 57.5 | 11 | 50 | |
| Boros Twin | 13 | 31–25 | 55.4 | 2 | 8 |