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 | 5215 | 10970–10105–18 | 52.1 | 385 | 2470 | |
Storm | 1082 | 2262–2058–4 | 52.4 | 94 | 466 | |
Stormpost | 7 | 7–15 | 31.8 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono Blue Post Desire | 6 | 7–13 | 35.0 | 0 | 2 |
Decks
Cards
Matchups
Archetype | Record | Win % |
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Aggro | 1–9 | 10.0 |
Heroic | 0–2 | 0.0 |
Mono White Heroic | 0–2 | 0.0 |
Red Deck Wins | 1–2 | 33.3 |
White Weenie | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Elves | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Zombies | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Mono Red Swarm | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Artifact Aggro | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Affinity | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Combo | 1–3 | 25.0 |
Hypergenesis | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Eggs | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Soulflayer | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Breakfast | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Hermit Gond | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Control | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Cycling Control | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Astral Slide | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Aggro-Combo | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Pummeler | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Aggro-Control | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Ninjas | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Midrange | 2–2 | 50.0 |
Graveyard Value | 1–1 | 50.0 |
Varolz Dreadnought | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Treefolk | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Mono Black Midrange | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Ramp | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Rofellos Ramp | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Channel-Rofellos | 0–1 | 0.0 |