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 1 week.
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combo-Control | 170 | 277–286 | 49.2 | 1 | 7 | 9 |
| Curses | 6 | 7–9 | 43.8 | |||
| Cruel Combo-Control | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Battle of Wits | 37 | 71–76 | 48.3 | 1 | ||
| Shared Fate | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Sunforger | 5 | 2–12 | 14.3 | |||
| Pickles | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Hedron Alignment | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Lich's Mastery | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Curious Niv-Mizzet | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | 0 | 2 | |
| Hive Mind | 39 | 75–55 | 57.7 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Zur's Weirding | 6 | 2–6 | 25.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Solar Flare | 33 | 65–55 | 54.2 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Mass Land Destruction | 26 | 38–46 | 45.2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Wildfire | 26 | 38–46 | 45.2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Borderpost Wildfire | 10 | 21–21 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Resurgent Belief | 7 | 7–10 | 41.2 |