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 4 weeks.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Control | 5543 | 10256–11196–43 | 47.8 | 258 | 2361 | |
Mono Black Control | 122 | 199–261–5 | 43.3 | 4 | 32 | |
Esper Control | 363 | 680–723 | 48.5 | 18 | 159 | |
Demonic Rising | 199 | 387–368–8 | 51.3 | 12 | 98 | |
Paradox Haze Lock | 8 | 12–16–1 | 42.9 | 0 | 5 | |
Mono Blue Control | 100 | 178–209 | 46.0 | 6 | 44 | |
Dimir Control | 392 | 670–803–10 | 45.5 | 13 | 153 | |
Dreadful Inspiration | 12 | 27–21–3 | 56.3 | 1 | 8 | |
Watery Oath | 7 | 14–20 | 41.2 | 0 | 5 | |
Azorius Control | 851 | 1714–1634–3 | 51.2 | 56 | 381 | |
Adam's Ale | 15 | 40–28 | 58.8 | 1 | 7 | |
Cawblade | 93 | 247–174 | 58.7 | 9 | 46 | |
Turbo Fog | 125 | 197–261–1 | 43.0 | 3 | 42 | |
Izzet Control | 135 | 228–287–2 | 44.3 | 6 | 52 | |
Mardu Control | 55 | 98–119–1 | 45.2 | 2 | 21 | |
Mill | 74 | 63–164 | 27.8 | 2 | 14 | |
Boros Control | 40 | 67–73 | 47.9 | 3 | 18 | |
Cloudpost Control | 297 | 599–590–5 | 50.4 | 15 | 134 | |
Azorius Cloudpost Control | 71 | 166–128–5 | 56.5 | 4 | 31 | |
Blackpost | 13 | 36–22 | 62.1 | 1 | 7 | |
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 91 | 179–189 | 48.6 | 5 | 37 | |
Dimir Cloudpost Control | 28 | 46–58 | 44.2 | 0 | 13 | |
Izzet Cloudpost Control | 22 | 31–49 | 38.8 | 0 | 11 | |
Cloudy With Sunny Spells | 11 | 35–20 | 63.6 | 2 | 6 | |
Selesnya Cloudpost Control | 30 | 53–59 | 47.3 | 3 | 19 | |
Grixis Control | 277 | 457–573–2 | 44.4 | 9 | 92 | |
Cruel Control | 143 | 211–289–2 | 42.2 | 6 | 48 | |
Stax | 188 | 345–391–1 | 46.9 | 4 | 84 | |
Necro Stax | 2 | 3–6 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Pollute the Planet | 53 | 135–93–1 | 59.2 | 4 | 31 | |
Birthday Stax | 17 | 31–33 | 48.4 | 0 | 8 | |
Chandra Nalaar | 45 | 50–93 | 35.0 | 0 | 11 | |
Stagnant Control | 10 | 18–21 | 46.2 | 0 | 4 | |
Jeskai Control | 205 | 407–424 | 49.0 | 10 | 94 | |
Jeskai Approach | 11 | 21–25 | 45.7 | 0 | 4 | |
Dragon Control | 150 | 241–310 | 43.7 | 6 | 48 | |
Izzet Dragons | 52 | 75–106 | 41.4 | 3 | 9 | |
Esper Dragons | 21 | 32–43 | 42.7 | 0 | 6 | |
Grixis Dragons | 12 | 27–24 | 52.9 | 1 | 4 | |
Dimir Dragons | 4 | 6–11 | 35.3 | 0 | 2 | |
UBRG Dragons | 7 | 17–8 | 68.0 | 2 | 2 | |
Galleon Control | 22 | 35–47 | 42.7 | 1 | 12 | |
Ponza | 195 | 300–414–1 | 42.0 | 2 | 64 | |
Mono White Control | 127 | 244–268 | 47.7 | 4 | 62 | |
Life is Ez | 14 | 19–32 | 37.3 | 1 | 4 | |
Dynavolt Tower | 29 | 42–62 | 40.4 | 1 | 11 | |
Cycling Control | 276 | 588–534–2 | 52.4 | 21 | 137 | |
Astral Slide | 258 | 575–490–1 | 54.0 | 21 | 136 | |
Five Color Control | 73 | 117–145 | 44.7 | 2 | 40 | |
Five Color Collected Conjuring | 5 | 6–10 | 37.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Shrines | 7 | 9–17 | 34.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Sultai Control | 149 | 290–297 | 49.4 | 5 | 68 | |
Sultai Ultimatum | 8 | 5–20 | 20.0 | |||
Guildgate Control | 265 | 564–520 | 52.0 | 12 | 109 | |
Bant Control | 47 | 83–97 | 46.1 | 3 | 16 | |
Temur Reclamation | 45 | 86–98 | 46.7 | 2 | 13 | |
Pox | 106 | 147–235 | 38.5 | 0 | 37 | |
Enchantments Control | 26 | 62–52 | 54.4 | 5 | 14 | |
Four Color Counter Ghazi | 84 | 153–188 | 44.9 | 1 | 51 | |
Seasons Past Control | 32 | 46–66 | 41.1 | 0 | 13 | |
Orzhov Control | 268 | 657–512 | 56.2 | 26 | 171 | |
Prison | 76 | 141–153 | 48.0 | 3 | 39 | |
Enchantress | 54 | 108–115 | 48.4 | 2 | 28 |