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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Control | 426 | 622–756 | 45.1 | 4 | 49 | 14 |
Mono Black Control | 3 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Esper Control | 78 | 119–150 | 44.2 | 2 | 11 | 2 |
Demonic Rising | 30 | 57–52 | 52.3 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
Mono Blue Control | 11 | 2–18 | 10.0 | |||
Dimir Control | 25 | 39–32 | 54.9 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Azorius Control | 30 | 46–33 | 58.2 | 0 | 3 | |
Turbo Fog | 28 | 43–53 | 44.8 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
Izzet Control | 7 | 14–12 | 53.8 | 1 | ||
Mardu Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Mill | 9 | 5–19 | 20.8 | |||
Boros Control | 4 | 8–10 | 44.4 | |||
Cloudpost Control | 48 | 86–82 | 51.2 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Azorius Cloudpost Control | 15 | 26–18 | 59.1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Blackpost | 2 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 26 | 49–47 | 51.0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Dimir Cloudpost Control | 4 | 8–8 | 50.0 | |||
Grixis Control | 8 | 3–11 | 21.4 | |||
Cruel Control | 7 | 3–10 | 23.1 | |||
Stax | 50 | 82–112 | 42.3 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Pollute the Planet | 7 | 25–11 | 69.4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Jeskai Control | 24 | 34–40 | 45.9 | 0 | 5 | |
Dragon Control | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Ponza | 3 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
Mono White Control | 18 | 34–35 | 49.3 | 1 | ||
Life is Ez | 12 | 28–23 | 54.9 | 1 | ||
Cycling Control | 12 | 6–21 | 22.2 | |||
Astral Slide | 10 | 5–19 | 20.8 | |||
Five Color Control | 23 | 35–35 | 50.0 | 1 | 10 | 1 |
Sultai Control | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Guildgate Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Bant Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Four Color Counter Ghazi | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Orzhov Control | 3 | 0–4 | 0.0 |