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? 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 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, 2 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Control | 126 | 177–170 | 51.0 | 0 | 4 | 9 |
Esper Control | 5 | 12–5 | 70.6 | 2 |
Decks
Cards
Matchups
Archetype | Record | Win % |
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Aggro | 2–3 | 40.0 |
Goblins | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Tokens | 0–1 | 0.0 |
White Weenie | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Elves | 1–1 | 50.0 |
Combo | 2–1 | 66.7 |
Breakfast | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Oops All Spells | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Dice Factory | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Gyruda | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Control | 4–0 | 100.0 |
Boros Control | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Mono White Control | 2–0 | 100.0 |
Cycling Control | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Astral Slide | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Midrange | 2–1 | 66.7 |
Grenzo | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Mono Black Midrange | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Mono Black Devotion | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Orzhov Midrange | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Ramp | 2–0 | 100.0 |
Cloudpost Ramp | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Greenpost | 1–0 | 100.0 |