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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Ramp | 1187 | 2228–2433–2 | 47.8 | 65 | 533 | |
Villainous Wealth | 7 | 12–16 | 42.9 | 0 | 3 | |
Rofellos Ramp | 393 | 853–775 | 52.4 | 36 | 237 | |
Wild Pair | 19 | 43–42 | 50.6 | 0 | 6 | |
Channel-Rofellos | 236 | 562–452 | 55.4 | 31 | 171 | |
Cloudpost Ramp | 484 | 916–1007 | 47.6 | 23 | 189 | |
Eldrazipost | 25 | 32–56 | 36.4 | 0 | 4 | |
Locus Awakening | 5 | 2–13 | 13.3 | |||
Golgari Post | 19 | 32–43 | 42.7 | 0 | 5 | |
Arcum's Not Astrolabe | 8 | 10–13 | 43.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Greenpost | 319 | 680–652 | 51.1 | 22 | 149 | |
Gruul Post | 44 | 78–99 | 44.1 | 1 | 17 | |
Simic Post | 24 | 35–47 | 42.7 | 0 | 6 | |
Devoid Cruelty | 37 | 92–66 | 58.2 | 3 | 19 | |
Domain | 16 | 34–34 | 50.0 | 1 | 8 | |
Temur Bombardment | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Summer Bloom Ramp | 14 | 18–32 | 36.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Historic Bloom | 4 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |||
Reclamation at Wake | 4 | 5–8 | 38.5 | |||
Sarkhan's Unsealing Ramp | 4 | 8–8 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Eureka! | 5 | 12–9 | 57.1 | 0 | 3 | |
Defenders | 3 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |||
Carth Superfriends | 14 | 14–27 | 34.1 | 0 | 4 | |
Jund Carth | 5 | 3–11 | 21.4 | 0 | 1 |