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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Control | 264 | 446–562 | 44.2 | 6 | 67 | |
Mono Black Control | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Esper Control | 33 | 76–69 | 52.4 | 4 | 11 | |
Demonic Rising | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Blue Control | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Dimir Control | 8 | 8–21 | 27.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Azorius Control | 48 | 80–95 | 45.7 | 0 | 15 | |
Turbo Fog | 5 | 6–10 | 37.5 | |||
Mardu Control | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Mill | 8 | 8–17 | 32.0 | |||
Cloudpost Control | 30 | 68–58 | 54.0 | 1 | 12 | |
Azorius Cloudpost Control | 7 | 14–14 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 9 | 17–17 | 50.0 | 1 | 3 | |
Cloudy With Sunny Spells | 3 | 8–7 | 53.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Grixis Control | 11 | 11–25 | 30.6 | |||
Cruel Control | 6 | 6–13 | 31.6 | |||
Stax | 3 | 4–7 | 36.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Chandra Nalaar | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Jeskai Control | 5 | 8–9 | 47.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Dragon Control | 18 | 27–33 | 45.0 | 1 | 2 | |
Izzet Dragons | 18 | 27–33 | 45.0 | 1 | 2 | |
Galleon Control | 3 | 9–7 | 56.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Ponza | 7 | 6–15 | 28.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono White Control | 20 | 34–43 | 44.2 | 0 | 6 | |
Cycling Control | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Astral Slide | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Sultai Control | 5 | 1–12 | 7.7 | |||
Sultai Ultimatum | 3 | 1–8 | 11.1 | |||
Guildgate Control | 3 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |||
Bant Control | 13 | 26–27 | 49.1 | 0 | 5 | |
Pox | 25 | 44–58 | 43.1 | 0 | 6 | |
Four Color Counter Ghazi | 8 | 15–20 | 42.9 | 0 | 3 | |
Orzhov Control | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 |