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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Aggro-Combo | 224 | 396–354 | 52.8 | 0 | 11 | 14 |
Aristocrats | 121 | 261–186 | 58.4 | 0 | 4 | 12 |
Mono Black Aristocrats | 68 | 163–100 | 62.0 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
Orzhov Aristocrats | 12 | 24–21 | 53.3 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Abzan Aristocrats | 9 | 21–12 | 63.6 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Food | 17 | 17–29 | 37.0 | |||
Rakdos Aristocrats | 13 | 33–20 | 62.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Burn | 38 | 34–68 | 33.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Infect | 3 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Blazing Shoal Infect | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Turbo Myth | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Pummeler | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Trickbind Dreadnought | 45 | 76–66 | 53.5 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
Mono Blue Dreadnought | 39 | 71–52 | 57.7 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
Combo Goblins | 9 | 21–15 | 58.3 | |||
Goblin Persist | 9 | 21–15 | 58.3 |