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 5 weeks, 2 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro-Control | 12783 | 22470–21393–3 | 51.2 | 79 | 869 | 624 |
Simic Flash | 214 | 361–363–1 | 49.9 | 1 | 22 | 5 |
Simic Vat | 57 | 131–97 | 57.5 | 0 | 14 | 2 |
Izzet Tempo | 3304 | 6443–5562–1 | 53.7 | 15 | 201 | 204 |
Azorius Skies | 532 | 838–920 | 47.7 | 3 | 25 | 22 |
Blue Madness | 816 | 1275–1434 | 47.1 | 5 | 42 | 28 |
Simic Madness | 519 | 822–878 | 48.4 | 4 | 31 | 22 |
Temur Madness | 142 | 245–255 | 49.0 | 1 | 9 | 3 |
Grixis Madness | 48 | 68–80 | 45.9 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Lich Aggro-Control | 196 | 344–341 | 50.2 | 0 | 7 | 11 |
Temur Clues | 37 | 47–71 | 39.8 | 0 | 9 | |
Wizards | 589 | 822–986 | 45.5 | 3 | 33 | 16 |
Tetsukotog | 50 | 90–91 | 49.7 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
12 Pest | 71 | 138–118 | 53.9 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
Ninjas | 732 | 1265–1267 | 50.0 | 4 | 36 | 32 |
Mono Blue Gush | 84 | 149–151 | 49.7 | 1 | 9 | 6 |
Mono Blue Tempo | 2066 | 3993–3206 | 55.5 | 21 | 191 | 125 |
Mono Blue Faeries | 113 | 209–178 | 54.0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
Izzet Spells | 1358 | 2572–2260 | 53.2 | 16 | 142 | 80 |
Dimir Tempo | 1199 | 1853–1978 | 48.4 | 3 | 35 | 42 |
Dimir Faeries | 119 | 176–203 | 46.4 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Sultai Tempo | 56 | 115–105 | 52.3 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
Ensoul Aggro-Control | 275 | 548–412 | 57.1 | 4 | 33 | 17 |
Azorius Tempo | 144 | 213–251 | 45.9 | 1 | 12 | 3 |