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 10 weeks, 6 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Combo-Control | 683 | 1177–1238 | 48.7 | 2 | 23 | 25 |
Curses | 21 | 32–40 | 44.4 | |||
Burning Vengeance | 7 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |||
Cruel Combo-Control | 21 | 23–42 | 35.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Battle of Wits | 24 | 39–49 | 44.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Shared Fate | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Sunforger | 13 | 12–27 | 30.8 | 1 | ||
Pickles | 21 | 45–43 | 51.1 | 0 | 2 | |
Hedron Alignment | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Lich's Mastery | 5 | 4–13 | 23.5 | |||
Curious Niv-Mizzet | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Zur's Weirding | 49 | 88–105 | 45.6 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Solar Flare | 50 | 75–92 | 44.9 | 1 | 5 | |
Plasma Swans | 39 | 87–78 | 52.7 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
Liliana's Contract | 6 | 5–17 | 22.7 | |||
Mass Land Destruction | 394 | 732–665 | 52.4 | 1 | 7 | 22 |
Wildfire | 394 | 732–665 | 52.4 | 1 | 7 | 22 |
Thryx-Wildfire | 137 | 254–258 | 49.6 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Borderpost Wildfire | 237 | 453–363 | 55.5 | 1 | 6 | 17 |