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 4 weeks.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Control | 1213 | 1878–2122–2 | 47.0 | 5 | 55 | 25 |
Mono Black Control | 26 | 36–56 | 39.1 | 1 | ||
Esper Control | 39 | 62–59 | 51.2 | 0 | 3 | |
Demonic Rising | 41 | 68–84 | 44.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Blue Control | 11 | 10–21 | 32.3 | |||
Dimir Control | 122 | 220–197 | 52.8 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Azorius Control | 226 | 373–378–1 | 49.7 | 0 | 12 | 10 |
Adam's Ale | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Turbo Fog | 45 | 73–81 | 47.4 | 0 | 3 | |
Izzet Control | 13 | 29–28 | 50.9 | 0 | 2 | |
Mardu Control | 10 | 15–22 | 40.5 | |||
Mill | 28 | 19–64 | 22.9 | |||
Boros Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Cloudpost Control | 111 | 179–166 | 51.9 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
Azorius Cloudpost Control | 52 | 102–79 | 56.4 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Blackpost | 14 | 22–27 | 44.9 | 1 | ||
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 33 | 41–43 | 48.8 | 1 | ||
Dimir Cloudpost Control | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
Cloudy With Sunny Spells | 6 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
Grixis Control | 84 | 136–153 | 47.1 | 1 | 2 | |
Cruel Control | 63 | 97–114 | 46.0 | |||
Stax | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Jeskai Control | 9 | 10–19 | 34.5 | |||
Dragon Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Ponza | 196 | 335–338 | 49.8 | 1 | 10 | 5 |
Mono White Control | 54 | 89–101 | 46.8 | 2 | 8 | |
Life is Ez | 14 | 17–17 | 50.0 | |||
Cycling Control | 47 | 40–73–1 | 35.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Astral Slide | 42 | 30–65 | 31.6 | |||
Five Color Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Sultai Control | 16 | 16–28 | 36.4 | |||
Guildgate Control | 40 | 56–68 | 45.2 | 0 | 3 | |
Bant Control | 24 | 37–37 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Temur Reclamation | 14 | 24–30 | 44.4 | 0 | 2 | |
Orzhov Control | 37 | 30–85 | 26.1 |