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 13 weeks, 2 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Combo-Control | 362 | 634–634 | 50.0 | 3 | 22 | 18 |
Curses | 5 | 2–13 | 13.3 | |||
Cruel Combo-Control | 16 | 29–29 | 50.0 | 0 | 3 | |
Battle of Wits | 41 | 64–67 | 48.9 | 2 | ||
Shared Fate | 2 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |||
Swarm Intelligence | 6 | 12–12 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Hedron Alignment | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Yosei Vat | 14 | 28–28 | 50.0 | 0 | 3 | |
Lich's Mastery | 5 | 3–11 | 21.4 | |||
Curious Niv-Mizzet | 3 | 3–8 | 27.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Hive Mind | 78 | 168–121 | 58.1 | 2 | 9 | 8 |
Zur's Weirding | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Plasma Swans | 18 | 31–32 | 49.2 | 1 | ||
Liliana's Contract | 11 | 14–21 | 40.0 | |||
Mass Land Destruction | 124 | 244–216 | 53.0 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
Wildfire | 124 | 244–216 | 53.0 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
Thryx-Wildfire | 89 | 196–160 | 55.1 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
Borderpost Wildfire | 9 | 16–16 | 50.0 |