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 4 weeks.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Control | 724 | 1180–1148 | 50.7 | 3 | 42 | 30 |
Mono Black Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Esper Control | 60 | 89–114 | 43.8 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Mono Blue Control | 7 | 7–7 | 50.0 | |||
Dimir Control | 47 | 76–63 | 54.7 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Azorius Control | 119 | 205–166 | 55.3 | 1 | 6 | 5 |
Cawblade | 29 | 59–44 | 57.3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Turbo Fog | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Izzet Control | 15 | 19–26 | 42.2 | 0 | 3 | |
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 | 131 | 214–201 | 51.6 | 0 | 5 | 9 |
Azorius Cloudpost Control | 46 | 82–60 | 57.7 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
Blackpost | 5 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |||
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 17 | 26–24 | 52.0 | 2 | ||
Dimir Cloudpost Control | 3 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |||
Selesnya Cloudpost Control | 34 | 61–53 | 53.5 | 0 | 3 | |
Grixis Control | 32 | 55–50 | 52.4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Cruel Control | 9 | 19–14 | 57.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Stax | 8 | 11–9 | 55.0 | 0 | 1 | |
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 | 42 | 62–78 | 44.3 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
Cycling Control | 6 | 7–6 | 53.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Astral Slide | 6 | 7–6 | 53.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Five Color Control | 7 | 7–10 | 41.2 | |||
Five Color Collected Conjuring | 4 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |||
Sultai Control | 10 | 15–11 | 57.7 | |||
Bant Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Pox | 29 | 43–55 | 43.9 | |||
Seasons Past Control | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
Orzhov Control | 76 | 147–114 | 56.3 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
Prison | 79 | 165–131 | 55.7 | 1 | 9 | 5 |
Enchantress | 74 | 164–125 | 56.7 | 1 | 9 | 5 |