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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | 126 | 177–170 | 51.0 | 0 | 4 | 9 |
| Dimir Control | 19 | 24–21 | 53.3 | 1 |
Decks
Cards
Matchups
| Archetype | Record | Win % |
|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 6–5 | 54.5 |
| Heroic | 1–1 | 50.0 |
| Boros Heroic | 1–1 | 50.0 |
| Tokens | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Mono White Tokens | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| White Weenie | 1–1 | 50.0 |
| Soldiers | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Zombies | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Mono Red Swarm | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Artifact Aggro | 2–1 | 66.7 |
| Affinity | 2–0 | 100.0 |
| Tempered Steel | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Voltron | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Equipment Aggro | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Combo | 7–9 | 43.8 |
| Storm | 5–4 | 55.6 |
| High Tide | 5–4 | 55.6 |
| Jeskai Ascendancy | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Jeskai Jeskai Ascendancy | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Blazing Shoal Combo | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Dredge | 2–2 | 50.0 |
| Belcher | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Control | 1–1 | 50.0 |
| Dimir Control | 1–1 | 50.0 |
| Aggro-Combo | 1–1 | 50.0 |
| Infect | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Trickbind Dreadnought | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Aggro-Control | 4–2 | 66.7 |
| Izzet Tempo | 3–0 | 100.0 |
| Wizards | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Mono Blue Tempo | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Dimir Tempo | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Midrange | 5–3 | 62.5 |
| Abzan Midrange | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Blink | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Displace Loop | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Mono Black Midrange | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Mono Black Devotion | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Orzhov Midrange | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Owling Mine | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Artifact Midrange | 2–0 | 100.0 |
| Coinflip Tribal | 1–0 | 100.0 |