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 13 weeks, 4 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro-Control | 2077 | 3931–4268–3 | 47.9 | 83 | 890 | |
Simic Flash | 39 | 77–71–1 | 52.0 | 1 | 22 | |
Simic Vat | 20 | 46–37 | 55.4 | 0 | 14 | |
Izzet Tempo | 506 | 926–1057–1 | 46.7 | 15 | 201 | |
Azorius Skies | 69 | 115–146 | 44.1 | 3 | 25 | |
Blue Madness | 91 | 166–178 | 48.3 | 5 | 42 | |
Simic Madness | 62 | 124–118 | 51.2 | 4 | 31 | |
Temur Madness | 20 | 34–40 | 45.9 | 1 | 9 | |
Grixis Madness | 5 | 4–11 | 26.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Lich Aggro-Control | 21 | 40–50 | 44.4 | 0 | 7 | |
Temur Clues | 21 | 36–43 | 45.6 | 0 | 9 | |
Wizards | 87 | 153–179 | 46.1 | 3 | 34 | |
Tetsukotog | 10 | 20–18 | 52.6 | 0 | 5 | |
12 Pest | 8 | 22–17 | 56.4 | 1 | 5 | |
Ninjas | 78 | 119–165 | 41.9 | 4 | 36 | |
Mono Blue Gush | 15 | 25–28 | 47.2 | 1 | 9 | |
Mono Blue Tempo | 458 | 935–893 | 51.1 | 25 | 205 | |
Mono Blue Faeries | 9 | 9–21 | 30.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono Blue Librarians | 44 | 118–86 | 57.8 | 7 | 25 | |
Izzet Spells | 277 | 632–569 | 52.6 | 16 | 146 | |
Dimir Tempo | 138 | 216–295 | 42.3 | 3 | 35 | |
Dimir Faeries | 10 | 17–24 | 41.5 | 0 | 2 | |
Sultai Tempo | 11 | 25–20 | 55.6 | 0 | 4 | |
Ensoul Aggro-Control | 60 | 149–123 | 54.8 | 4 | 33 | |
Azorius Tempo | 30 | 52–64 | 44.8 | 1 | 14 |