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 14 weeks, 5 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Combo | 675 | 938–1213 | 43.6 | 6 | 37 | 17 |
Storm | 277 | 396–535 | 42.5 | 1 | 15 | 8 |
Sultai Tendrils | 8 | 7–27 | 20.6 | |||
Dimir Tendrils | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Dragonstorm | 30 | 37–58 | 38.9 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Hazoret Storm | 182 | 297–331 | 47.3 | 1 | 9 | 5 |
Simic Storm | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Grixis Tendrils | 33 | 46–69 | 40.0 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
Reanimator | 112 | 179–161 | 52.6 | 3 | 11 | 4 |
Grozoth | 44 | 85–53 | 61.6 | 2 | 7 | 3 |
Traditional Reanimator | 68 | 94–108 | 46.5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Grixis Reanimator | 4 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
Oriss Genesis | 13 | 20–18 | 52.6 | |||
Biovisionary | 4 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Dubious Challenge | 6 | 9–19 | 32.1 | |||
Warp World | 4 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
Maniac Combo | 2 | |||||
Runeflare | 17 | 34–42 | 44.7 | |||
Mardu Life | 9 | 15–23 | 39.5 | |||
Jeskai Ascendancy | 43 | 62–65 | 48.8 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Jeskai Jeskai Ascendancy | 15 | 30–23 | 56.6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Myr Incubator | 9 | 12–13 | 48.0 | |||
"Twin" | 15 | 18–24 | 42.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Jeskai "Twin" | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Seismic Swans | 48 | 86–71 | 54.8 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Eye of the Storm | 20 | 9–33 | 21.4 | 0 | 2 | |
Eggs | 2 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |||
Saffi Combo | 4 | 3–10 | 23.1 | |||
Turntimber Ranger | 9 | 18–18 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Retraction Helix Combo | 8 | 6–18 | 25.0 | |||
Taking Turns | 13 | 21–22 | 48.8 | |||
Quest for Ula's Temple | 5 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Dice Factory | 9 | 9–18 | 33.3 |