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 5 weeks, 2 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Control | 603 | 975–959 | 50.4 | 3 | 35 | 22 |
Mono Black Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Esper Control | 55 | 81–99 | 45.0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Mono Blue Control | 3 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Dimir Control | 39 | 66–45 | 59.5 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Azorius Control | 91 | 153–124 | 55.2 | 1 | 5 | 5 |
Cawblade | 21 | 41–27 | 60.3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Turbo Fog | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Izzet Control | 12 | 17–19 | 47.2 | 0 | 2 | |
Mardu Control | 6 | 8–12 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Mill | 18 | 13–34 | 27.7 | |||
Boros Control | 4 | 5–7 | 41.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Cloudpost Control | 95 | 151–158 | 48.9 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
Azorius Cloudpost Control | 25 | 41–38 | 51.9 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Blackpost | 5 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |||
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 17 | 26–24 | 52.0 | 2 | ||
Dimir Cloudpost Control | 2 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
Cloudy With Sunny Spells | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Selesnya Cloudpost Control | 33 | 60–52 | 53.6 | 0 | 3 | |
Grixis Control | 32 | 55–49 | 52.9 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Cruel Control | 9 | 19–14 | 57.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Stax | 5 | 7–4 | 63.6 | |||
Jeskai Control | 7 | 10–13 | 43.5 | |||
Dragon Control | 16 | 17–33 | 34.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Esper Dragons | 4 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
Mono White Control | 37 | 56–61 | 47.9 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Five Color Control | 11 | 10–14 | 41.7 | |||
Five Color Collected Conjuring | 4 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |||
Sultai Control | 8 | 12–8 | 60.0 | |||
Bant Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Pox | 25 | 40–50 | 44.4 | |||
Seasons Past Control | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
Orzhov Control | 66 | 130–103 | 55.8 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
Prison | 68 | 135–114 | 54.2 | 1 | 9 | 3 |
Enchantress | 63 | 134–108 | 55.4 | 1 | 9 | 3 |