Penny Dreadful. The ultra-budget, thousands-of-cards Magic Online brewer's paradise with powerful cards, seven 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 seven 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 1 week, 1 day.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro-Control | 789 | 1475–1360 | 52.0 | 1 | 39 | 29 |
Simic Flash | 7 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |||
Simic Vat | 4 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Izzet Tempo | 200 | 436–327 | 57.1 | 0 | 9 | 8 |
Azorius Skies | 32 | 68–51 | 57.1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Blue Madness | 23 | 30–40 | 42.9 | 1 | ||
Simic Madness | 20 | 30–33 | 47.6 | 1 | ||
Lich Aggro-Control | 8 | 12–14 | 46.2 | 1 | ||
Ninjas | 32 | 35–57 | 38.0 | |||
Mono Blue Tempo | 120 | 262–214 | 55.0 | 0 | 15 | 9 |
Izzet Spells | 28 | 56–60 | 48.3 | |||
Dimir Tempo | 188 | 325–326 | 49.9 | 1 | 7 | 6 |
Sultai Tempo | 41 | 96–73 | 56.8 | 0 | 4 | 2 |