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 1 week.
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro-Combo | 154 | 318–314 | 50.3 | 8 | 48 | |
| Aristocrats | 44 | 77–88 | 46.7 | 0 | 11 | |
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 29 | 57–61 | 48.3 | 0 | 9 | |
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 5 | 5–8 | 38.5 | |||
| Golgari Aristocrats | 6 | 8–11 | 42.1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Abzan Aristocrats | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Rakdos Aristocrats | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
| Burn | 11 | 19–23 | 45.2 | 0 | 3 | |
| Infect | 16 | 30–33 | 47.6 | 0 | 2 | |
| Simic Infect | 4 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |||
| Blazing Shoal Infect | 5 | 10–11 | 47.6 | |||
| Golgari Infect | 7 | 20–15 | 57.1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Hermit Humans | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Trickbind Dreadnought | 13 | 22–32 | 40.7 | 0 | 2 | |
| Mono Blue Dreadnought | 1 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
| Izzet Blitzkrieg | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
| Chancellor of the Forge Combo | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Hushnought | 59 | 155–113 | 57.8 | 8 | 29 | |
| Combo Goblins | 7 | 11–14 | 44.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Goblin Persist | 7 | 11–14 | 44.0 | 0 | 1 |