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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 1 week, 4 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Combo | 2741 | 4511–4604 | 49.5 | 15 | 72 | 126 |
Storm | 870 | 1573–1265 | 55.4 | 6 | 24 | 66 |
Dragonstorm | 41 | 57–70 | 44.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Hazoret Storm | 12 | 5–16 | 23.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Simic Storm | 5 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Citadel Storm | 32 | 30–72 | 29.4 | |||
High Tide | 767 | 1473–1076 | 57.8 | 6 | 22 | 66 |
Grixis Tendrils | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Reanimator | 343 | 647–586 | 52.5 | 1 | 13 | 15 |
Worldgorger Dragon | 254 | 523–434 | 54.6 | 1 | 12 | 12 |
Double Dragon | 171 | 384–299 | 56.2 | 1 | 11 | 10 |
Traditional Reanimator | 51 | 69–85 | 44.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Rakdos Reanimator | 4 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |||
Dimir Reanimator | 6 | 7–11 | 38.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Black Reanimator | 13 | 24–19 | 55.8 | |||
Grixis Reanimator | 9 | 18–17 | 51.4 | 1 | ||
Oriss Genesis | 28 | 44–45 | 49.4 | 2 | ||
Biovisionary | 3 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Dubious Challenge | 76 | 114–126 | 47.5 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
Warp World | 13 | 21–28 | 42.9 | |||
Actual Warp World | 13 | 21–28 | 42.9 | |||
New Perspectives | 6 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Jeskai Ascendancy | 58 | 83–104 | 44.4 | 3 | ||
Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 51 | 72–90 | 44.4 | 3 | ||
Jeskai Jeskai Ascendancy | 6 | 11–9 | 55.0 | |||
Myr Incubator | 6 | 4–10 | 28.6 | |||
Fake-Twin | 86 | 144–151 | 48.8 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
Jeskai Fake-Twin | 28 | 32–50 | 39.0 | |||
Naya Fake-Twin | 42 | 95–69 | 57.9 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
Combo Post | 9 | 10–17 | 37.0 | |||
Metalwork Colossus | 64 | 85–121 | 41.3 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Seismic Swans | 15 | 27–25 | 51.9 | |||
Eye of the Storm | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Eggs | 73 | 100–160 | 38.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Saffi Combo | 3 | 3–10 | 23.1 | |||
Turntimber Ranger | 1 | |||||
Heartless Summoning Combo | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Lookout-Buccaneer Combo | 4 | 4–11 | 26.7 | |||
Blazing Shoal Combo | 46 | 77–78 | 49.7 | 2 | ||
Retraction Helix Combo | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Taking Turns | 178 | 211–350 | 37.6 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
Quest for Ula's Temple | 6 | 5–16 | 23.8 | |||
Izzet Ascension | 47 | 53–87 | 37.9 | 1 | ||
Ominous Good | 169 | 281–313 | 47.3 | 2 | 6 | 5 |
Jokulhaups Combo | 105 | 180–182 | 49.7 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Soulflayer | 80 | 132–138 | 48.9 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
Breakfast | 253 | 496–384 | 56.4 | 1 | 7 | 15 |
Hermit Gond | 58 | 123–85 | 59.1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Hermit Dredge | 75 | 129–111 | 53.8 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
Neoform Hermit | 85 | 172–135 | 56.0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Oops All Lands | 17 | 16–40 | 28.6 | |||
Dredge | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Polymorph | 23 | 20–59 | 25.3 | |||
Protean Hulk Combo | 9 | 13–21 | 38.2 | 1 | ||
Storm Herald | 7 | 5–12 | 29.4 | |||
Stuffy Doll | 49 | 85–78 | 52.1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |