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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 12 weeks, 5 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Combo | 712 | 1376–1236 | 52.7 | 9 | 59 | 45 |
Storm | 109 | 177–198 | 47.2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
Dragonstorm | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Simic Storm | 53 | 77–98 | 44.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Stormpost | 50 | 99–90 | 52.4 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
Mono Blue Post Desire | 50 | 99–90 | 52.4 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
Reanimator | 42 | 77–75 | 50.7 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
8 Goyf | 4 | 11–8 | 57.9 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 38 | 66–67 | 49.6 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Dimir Reanimator | 10 | 17–22 | 43.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Black Reanimator | 8 | 21–14 | 60.0 | 1 | 2 | |
Oriss Genesis | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Biovisionary | 3 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 38 | 87–54 | 61.7 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Mono Green Stormless Storm | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Dubious Challenge | 7 | 7–19 | 26.9 | |||
Warp World | 3 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Actual Warp World | 3 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Maniac Combo | 46 | 117–71 | 62.2 | 2 | 5 | 5 |
New Perspectives | 25 | 45–45 | 50.0 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Jeskai Ascendancy | 42 | 99–74 | 57.2 | 1 | 4 | |
Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 40 | 95–70 | 57.6 | 1 | 4 | |
Myr Incubator | 4 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Umbral Mantle | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Fake-Twin | 17 | 46–31 | 59.7 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Naya Fake-Twin | 11 | 35–18 | 66.0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Combo Post | 36 | 77–56 | 57.9 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
Metalwork Colossus | 131 | 276–195 | 58.6 | 0 | 7 | 15 |
Upheaval Colossus | 102 | 238–135 | 63.8 | 0 | 6 | 14 |
Eye of the Storm | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Eggs | 59 | 113–118 | 48.9 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
Saffi Combo | 37 | 77–62 | 55.4 | 0 | 6 | 3 |
Taking Turns | 4 | 1–9 | 10.0 | |||
Breakfast | 45 | 120–69 | 63.5 | 3 | 8 | 5 |
Hermit Gond | 24 | 69–37 | 65.1 | 3 | 8 | 2 |
Hermit Dredge | 12 | 38–13 | 74.5 | 3 | ||
Neoform Hermit | 9 | 13–19 | 40.6 | |||
Oops All Lands | 3 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Polymorph | 9 | 6–20 | 23.1 |