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, 6 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro-Control | 1010 | 1951–1748 | 52.7 | 5 | 45 | 53 |
Izzet Tempo | 346 | 750–605 | 55.4 | 1 | 17 | 21 |
Azorius Skies | 68 | 101–120 | 45.7 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Blue Madness | 30 | 33–77 | 30.0 | |||
Simic Madness | 10 | 11–24 | 31.4 | |||
Temur Madness | 12 | 18–25 | 41.9 | |||
Lich Aggro-Control | 43 | 95–57 | 62.5 | 4 | ||
Ninjas | 29 | 35–55 | 38.9 | |||
Mono Blue Tempo | 254 | 555–394 | 58.5 | 1 | 11 | 18 |
Izzet Spells | 99 | 170–177 | 49.0 | 2 | 12 | 5 |
Dimir Tempo | 98 | 154–171 | 47.4 | 0 | 4 | 2 |