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, 4 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro-Control | 794 | 1337–1296 | 50.8 | 6 | 46 | 34 |
Izzet Tempo | 289 | 574–460 | 55.5 | 2 | 9 | 24 |
Azorius Skies | 24 | 34–43 | 44.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Blue Madness | 31 | 53–65 | 44.9 | |||
Simic Madness | 27 | 50–59 | 45.9 | |||
Temur Madness | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
Lich Aggro-Control | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Wizards | 73 | 83–131 | 38.8 | 0 | 8 | |
12 Pest | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Ninjas | 22 | 24–31 | 43.6 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono Blue Tempo | 167 | 332–247 | 57.3 | 4 | 21 | 6 |
Mono Blue Faeries | 24 | 53–40 | 57.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Izzet Spells | 32 | 40–65 | 38.1 | 0 | 2 | |
Dimir Tempo | 69 | 93–116 | 44.5 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Dimir Faeries | 4 | 0–9 | 0.0 | |||
Azorius Tempo | 4 | 5–7 | 41.7 |