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 2 weeks, 2 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Control | 2373 | 3618–4399 | 45.1 | 6 | 66 | 83 |
Mono Black Control | 46 | 50–82 | 37.9 | |||
Esper Control | 125 | 228–201 | 53.2 | 0 | 7 | 5 |
Demonic Rising | 90 | 88–125 | 41.3 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Mono Blue Control | 22 | 31–45 | 40.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Dimir Control | 130 | 247–225 | 52.3 | 1 | 9 | 4 |
Azorius Control | 420 | 699–724 | 49.1 | 2 | 18 | 18 |
Turbo Fog | 49 | 47–114 | 29.2 | |||
Izzet Control | 10 | 13–24 | 35.1 | |||
Mardu Control | 113 | 228–207 | 52.4 | 7 | ||
Mill | 171 | 317–349 | 47.6 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
Boros Control | 11 | 7–21 | 25.0 | |||
Cloudpost Control | 79 | 117–161 | 42.1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Azorius Cloudpost Control | 18 | 36–32 | 52.9 | 2 | ||
Blackpost | 35 | 45–79 | 36.3 | 1 | ||
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 14 | 10–29 | 25.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Dimir Cloudpost Control | 7 | 16–8 | 66.7 | 2 | ||
Izzet Cloudpost Control | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Cloudy With Sunny Spells | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Grixis Control | 93 | 147–173 | 45.9 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Cruel Control | 51 | 86–96 | 47.3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Chandra Nalaar | 14 | 17–24 | 41.5 | 1 | ||
Jeskai Control | 15 | 11–35 | 23.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Dragon Control | 11 | 6–20 | 23.1 | |||
Izzet Dragons | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Esper Dragons | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Dimir Dragons | 4 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
Ponza | 326 | 488–604 | 44.7 | 0 | 3 | 9 |
Wildfire | 57 | 74–112 | 39.8 | |||
Thryx-Wildfire | 18 | 26–37 | 41.3 | |||
Borderpost Wildfire | 12 | 17–25 | 40.5 | |||
Mono White Control | 135 | 219–208 | 51.3 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
Dynavolt Tower | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Cycling Control | 111 | 172–211 | 44.9 | 2 | 8 | 3 |
Astral Slide | 108 | 169–205 | 45.2 | 2 | 8 | 3 |
Five Color Control | 138 | 137–338 | 28.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Five Color Collected Conjuring | 74 | 67–190 | 26.1 | |||
Shrines | 61 | 68–140 | 32.7 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Sultai Control | 21 | 17–36 | 32.1 | 0 | 2 | |
Guildgate Control | 10 | 7–21 | 25.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Bant Control | 24 | 19–42 | 31.2 | |||
Pox | 164 | 233–321 | 42.1 | 0 | 2 | 5 |