Penny Dreadful. The ultra-budget, 10,000-card 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 6 weeks, 1 day.
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | 276 | 384–503 | 43.3 | 0 | 23 | 7 |
| Esper Control | 23 | 28–49 | 36.4 | 1 |
Most Common Cards
Matchups
| Archetype | Record | Win % |
|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 10–16 | 38.5 |
| Mono Black Aggro | 1–4 | 20.0 |
| Heroic | 1–2 | 33.3 |
| Mono White Heroic | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 0–2 | 0.0 |
| Red Deck Wins | 2–3 | 40.0 |
| Goblins | 1–1 | 50.0 |
| White Weenie | 2–2 | 50.0 |
| Odric Keywords | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Zombies | 1–1 | 50.0 |
| Artifact Aggro | 2–3 | 40.0 |
| Affinity | 1–1 | 50.0 |
| Tempered Steel | 1–2 | 33.3 |
| Combo | 2–5 | 28.6 |
| Cephalid Breakfast | 1–1 | 50.0 |
| Druid Breakfast | 1–1 | 50.0 |
| Eggs | 1–2 | 33.3 |
| Control | 3–6 | 33.3 |
| Demonic Rising | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Dimir Control | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Azorius Control | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Turbo Fog | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Cloudpost Control | 0–2 | 0.0 |
| Azorius Cloudpost Control | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Dragon Control | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Mono White Control | 0–2 | 0.0 |
| Aggro-Control | 4–3 | 57.1 |
| Blue Madness | 2–2 | 50.0 |
| Simic Madness | 2–2 | 50.0 |
| Mono Blue Gush | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Midrange | 7–7 | 50.0 |
| Temur Ascendancy | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Blink | 1–2 | 33.3 |
| Wave Blink | 1–1 | 50.0 |
| Cloudpost Wave Blink | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Allies | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Mardu Allies | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Mono Black Midrange | 0–2 | 0.0 |
| Toughness Matters | 2–0 | 100.0 |
| Ramp | 2–12 | 14.3 |
| Rofellos Ramp | 2–12 | 14.3 |