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, 6 days.
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combo-Control | 77 | 155–158 | 49.5 | 3 | 22 | |
| Cruel Combo-Control | 10 | 23–18 | 56.1 | 0 | 3 | |
| Battle of Wits | 5 | 4–12 | 25.0 | |||
| Shared Fate | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Swarm Intelligence | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Hedron Alignment | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Yosei Vat | 8 | 19–19 | 50.0 | 0 | 3 | |
| Lich's Mastery | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Curious Niv-Mizzet | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Hive Mind | 24 | 55–46 | 54.5 | 2 | 9 | |
| Plasma Swans | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Liliana's Contract | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Mass Land Destruction | 17 | 39–38 | 50.6 | 1 | 4 | |
| Wildfire | 17 | 39–38 | 50.6 | 1 | 4 | |
| Thryx-Wildfire | 13 | 31–30 | 50.8 | 1 | 4 | |
| Borderpost Wildfire | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 |