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, 5 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Control | 1165 | 1788–2140 | 45.5 | 10 | 110 | 30 |
Dynavolt Tower | 18 | 20–30 | 40.0 | 0 | 3 |
Decks
Cards
Matchups
Archetype | Record | Win % |
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Aggro | 6–13 | 31.6 |
Mono Black Aggro | 2–0 | 100.0 |
Heroic | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Boros Heroic | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Red Deck Wins | 1–2 | 33.3 |
White Weenie | 1–1 | 50.0 |
Chroma White | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Gruul Aggro | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Artifact Aggro | 1–9 | 10.0 |
Tempered Steel | 1–9 | 10.0 |
Combo | 4–5 | 44.4 |
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 2–1 | 66.7 |
New Perspectives | 0–2 | 0.0 |
Runeflare | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Breakfast | 2–1 | 66.7 |
Cephalid Breakfast | 2–1 | 66.7 |
Druid Cephalid Breakfast | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Grixis Breakfast | 1–1 | 50.0 |
Control | 4–5 | 44.4 |
Azorius Control | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Stax | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Jeskai Control | 1–2 | 33.3 |
Sultai Control | 1–2 | 33.3 |
Four Color Counter Ghazi | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Aggro-Combo | 0–2 | 0.0 |
Aristocrats | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Mono Black Aristocrats | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Infect | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Aggro-Control | 1–1 | 50.0 |
Blue Madness | 1–1 | 50.0 |
Combo-Control | 2–1 | 66.7 |
Curses | 2–1 | 66.7 |
Midrange | 3–2 | 60.0 |
The Rock | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Treefolk | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Legends Midrange | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Mardu Legends | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Elementals | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Ramp | 0–1 | 0.0 |