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 |
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 |