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 6 days, 23 hours.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 1223 | 2307–1954 | 54.1 | 9 | 110 | 52 |
Voltron | 48 | 83–74 | 52.9 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Hateful Auras | 6 | 15–12 | 55.6 |
Decks
Cards
Matchups
Archetype | Record | Win % |
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Aggro | 4–1 | 80.0 |
Heroic | 1–1 | 50.0 |
Mono White Heroic | 1–1 | 50.0 |
Goblins | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Artifact Aggro | 2–0 | 100.0 |
Affinity | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Mono Blue Architect | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Combo | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Storm | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Control | 4–2 | 66.7 |
Azorius Control | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Cawblade | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Turbo Fog | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Cloudpost Control | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Grixis Control | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Cruel Control | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Stax | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Ponza | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Aggro-Combo | 3–0 | 100.0 |
Combo Goblins | 3–0 | 100.0 |
Goblin Persist | 3–0 | 100.0 |
Aggro-Control | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Izzet Tempo | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Combo-Control | 1–4 | 20.0 |
Pickles | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Mindcrank | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Mass Land Destruction | 0–3 | 0.0 |
Jokulhaups Control | 0–3 | 0.0 |
Grixis Jokulhaups Control | 0–1 | 0.0 |
WUBR Jokulhaups Control | 0–2 | 0.0 |
Midrange | 2–4 | 33.3 |
Vampires | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Rakdos Vampires | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Rakdos Midrange | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Big Red | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Lifegain Midrange | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Martyr's Grace | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Mythic Colossification | 1–0 | 100.0 |