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 3 weeks, 6 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Combo | 34622 | 57609–59292–18 | 49.3 | 385 | 2470 | 1564 |
Storm | 7852 | 12790–13660–4 | 48.4 | 94 | 466 | 387 |
Sultai Tendrils | 76 | 101–167–1 | 37.7 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Dimir Tendrils | 1689 | 3087–2829–3 | 52.2 | 33 | 125 | 85 |
Dark Tide | 47 | 110–68 | 61.8 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
Dragonstorm | 624 | 952–1223 | 43.8 | 6 | 42 | 11 |
Hazoret Storm | 537 | 741–956 | 43.7 | 1 | 21 | 15 |
Simic Storm | 333 | 482–613 | 44.0 | 0 | 10 | 9 |
Reclamation Storm | 52 | 69–115 | 37.5 | 0 | 5 | |
Citadel Storm | 242 | 261–531 | 33.0 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
High Tide | 1894 | 3599–2862 | 55.7 | 28 | 107 | 156 |
Grixis Tendrils | 204 | 247–405 | 37.9 | 0 | 9 | 6 |
Stormpost | 97 | 171–169 | 50.3 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
Mono Blue Post Desire | 63 | 108–116 | 48.2 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
Paradoxical Outcome Storm | 176 | 126–397 | 24.1 | 1 | ||
Izzet Storm | 982 | 1615–1782 | 47.5 | 11 | 80 | 43 |
Swath Storm | 91 | 136–181 | 42.9 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
Song Storm | 62 | 54–103 | 34.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Channel Storm | 328 | 844–430 | 66.2 | 14 | 51 | 43 |
Reanimator | 5284 | 10003–8789–4 | 53.2 | 55 | 446 | 257 |
Recurring Nightmare | 1015 | 1924–1647 | 53.9 | 8 | 86 | 51 |
Dragon Nightmare | 563 | 1170–882 | 57.0 | 8 | 65 | 34 |
Jund Nightmare | 46 | 77–96 | 44.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Four Color Powerful Magic | 43 | 89–78 | 53.3 | 0 | 3 | |
Worldgorger Dragon | 988 | 2047–1543 | 57.0 | 10 | 77 | 75 |
Double Dragon | 200 | 433–354 | 55.0 | 1 | 11 | 11 |
Starlit Graves | 30 | 58–54 | 51.8 | 1 | 5 | |
Dimir Cycling Reanimator | 59 | 128–99 | 56.4 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
8 Goyf | 41 | 70–86 | 44.9 | 0 | 7 | |
Living Death | 132 | 317–231 | 57.8 | 3 | 13 | 3 |
Grozoth | 68 | 121–93 | 56.5 | 2 | 8 | 3 |
Traditional Reanimator | 2879 | 5241–4913–4 | 51.6 | 31 | 248 | 120 |
Rakdos Reanimator | 455 | 974–786 | 55.3 | 2 | 35 | 26 |
Dimir Reanimator | 243 | 386–438 | 46.8 | 2 | 20 | 3 |
Mono Black Reanimator | 1496 | 2945–2475–1 | 54.3 | 15 | 130 | 79 |
Grixis Reanimator | 53 | 87–95 | 47.8 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Oriss Genesis | 317 | 550–448–2 | 55.1 | 0 | 6 | 28 |
Necro Combo | 85 | 155–119–2 | 56.6 | 4 | 15 | 3 |
Faith Necro | 18 | 30–21–2 | 58.8 | 0 | 4 | |
Deathmantle Necro | 20 | 41–31 | 56.9 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Biovisionary | 62 | 24–98 | 19.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 810 | 1632–1171–1 | 58.2 | 13 | 82 | 62 |
Mono Green Stormless Storm | 27 | 40–56–1 | 41.7 | 1 | 4 | |
Dubious Challenge | 185 | 204–334 | 37.9 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
Warp World | 567 | 859–1028 | 45.5 | 3 | 25 | 17 |
Zubera Tribal | 52 | 29–94 | 23.6 | |||
Maniac Combo | 206 | 339–387 | 46.7 | 2 | 11 | 10 |
Hypergenesis | 1054 | 1783–1801–1 | 49.7 | 13 | 89 | 29 |
Hyperwave | 66 | 184–97–1 | 65.5 | 5 | 16 | 4 |
New Perspectives | 269 | 410–525–1 | 43.9 | 3 | 25 | 8 |
Cat Wave | 87 | 198–141 | 58.4 | 4 | 13 | 7 |
Acid Wave | 22 | 55–40 | 57.9 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
Orcish Aids | 10 | 16–17 | 48.5 | 1 | ||
Runeflare | 250 | 283–539 | 34.4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Splendid Reclamation Combo | 16 | 9–29 | 23.7 | 0 | 2 | |
Monumental Ignus | 32 | 48–85 | 36.1 | 0 | 2 | |
Mardu Life | 34 | 57–84 | 40.4 | 1 | 5 | |
Jeskai Ascendancy | 1448 | 2755–2198 | 55.6 | 33 | 135 | 108 |
Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 704 | 1309–1031 | 55.9 | 13 | 53 | 54 |
Jeskai Jeskai Ascendancy | 380 | 801–609 | 56.8 | 19 | 72 | 27 |
Five Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 110 | 206–118 | 63.6 | 1 | 2 | 14 |
Myr Incubator | 165 | 264–253 | 51.1 | 0 | 7 | 9 |
Umbral Mantle | 173 | 333–263 | 55.9 | 2 | 11 | 16 |
Twin | 631 | 1182–1027 | 53.5 | 13 | 64 | 33 |
Murderous Mastery | 21 | 47–41 | 53.4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Jeskai Twin | 106 | 166–181 | 47.8 | 1 | 10 | 5 |
Naya Twin | 119 | 226–220 | 50.7 | 2 | 7 | 4 |
Izzet Twin | 203 | 464–263 | 63.8 | 8 | 32 | 18 |
Boros Twin | 30 | 64–42 | 60.4 | 2 | 8 | |
Combo Post | 104 | 223–173 | 56.3 | 1 | 8 | 9 |
Metalwork Colossus | 983 | 1727–1676 | 50.7 | 9 | 64 | 51 |
Anvil Colossus | 305 | 678–486 | 58.2 | 8 | 37 | 23 |
Upheaval Colossus | 284 | 508–449 | 53.1 | 0 | 13 | 18 |
Infinite Infinite Combos | 30 | 71–58 | 55.0 | 1 | 11 | |
Seismic Swans | 169 | 270–301 | 47.3 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
Cruel Combo | 21 | 44–48 | 47.8 | 1 | ||
Eye of the Storm | 29 | 11–51 | 17.7 | 0 | 2 | |
Eggs | 733 | 976–1388 | 41.3 | 8 | 68 | 15 |
Saffi Combo | 46 | 85–87 | 49.4 | 0 | 6 | 3 |
Turntimber Ranger | 42 | 55–66 | 45.5 | 0 | 3 | |
Heartless Summoning Combo | 228 | 295–464 | 38.9 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
Lookout-Buccaneer Combo | 70 | 100–132 | 43.1 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Blazing Shoal Combo | 393 | 578–636 | 47.6 | 3 | 31 | 12 |
Retraction Helix Combo | 53 | 34–99 | 25.6 | |||
Taking Turns | 751 | 1013–1356 | 42.8 | 0 | 16 | 27 |
Quest for Ula's Temple | 96 | 88–200 | 30.6 | 0 | 3 | |
Izzet Ascension | 901 | 1366–1586 | 46.3 | 1 | 45 | 40 |
Ominous Good | 305 | 431–584 | 42.5 | 2 | 10 | 7 |
Jokulhaups Combo | 393 | 571–700 | 44.9 | 1 | 6 | 11 |
Soulflayer | 548 | 894–968 | 48.0 | 4 | 34 | 11 |
Reanim8 Rack | 96 | 194–181 | 51.7 | 3 | 20 | 2 |
Breakfast | 2911 | 6347–4343–1 | 59.4 | 84 | 442 | 210 |
Cephalid Breakfast | 410 | 915–635–1 | 59.0 | 17 | 99 | 23 |
Druid Cephalid Breakfast | 315 | 713–490–1 | 59.3 | 7 | 58 | 21 |
Grixis Breakfast | 69 | 158–102 | 60.8 | 8 | 35 | 1 |
Hermit Gond | 90 | 206–133 | 60.8 | 3 | 11 | 6 |
Hermit Dredge | 97 | 176–135 | 56.6 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
Oops All Spells | 1775 | 3949–2654 | 59.8 | 55 | 289 | 130 |
Neoform Hermit | 386 | 848–566 | 60.0 | 8 | 35 | 32 |
Unctus | 49 | 89–64 | 58.2 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
Oops All Lands | 200 | 205–404 | 33.7 | 1 | 11 | 2 |
Dredge | 1101 | 1756–1897 | 48.1 | 4 | 43 | 55 |
Polymorph | 264 | 295–485 | 37.8 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Protean Hulk Combo | 91 | 124–177 | 41.2 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
Dice Factory | 230 | 315–469 | 40.2 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Storm Herald | 174 | 207–341 | 37.8 | 0 | 4 | |
Enduring Ideal | 329 | 492–638 | 43.5 | 0 | 10 | 9 |
Ad Nauseam | 383 | 531–663 | 44.5 | 2 | 18 | 16 |
Ad Swanseam | 71 | 124–105 | 54.1 | 1 | 7 | 7 |
Chain of Acid | 128 | 170–189 | 47.4 | 1 | 3 | |
GreenTwin | 100 | 143–193 | 42.6 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
Tibalt's Trickery | 106 | 88–237 | 27.1 | 0 | 2 | |
Intruder Alarm | 107 | 153–207 | 42.5 | 0 | 5 | |
Calibrated Blast | 105 | 152–196 | 43.7 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Restore Balance | 429 | 705–726 | 49.3 | 0 | 40 | 18 |
Gyruda | 185 | 317–304 | 51.0 | 3 | 17 | 10 |
Stuffy Doll | 121 | 207–224 | 48.0 | 0 | 7 | 4 |
Belcher | 223 | 432–354 | 55.0 | 0 | 15 | 14 |
Endless Belch | 25 | 33–30 | 52.4 | 2 | ||
Tameshi Bloom | 118 | 243–150 | 61.8 | 6 | 18 | 8 |
Possibility Storm | 97 | 165–157 | 51.2 | 1 | 7 | 2 |
Midnight Mass | 175 | 312–219 | 58.8 | 3 | 13 | 21 |
Phoenix Altar | 94 | 234–146 | 61.6 | 3 | 23 | 6 |