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 11 weeks, 2 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Combo | 1837 | 3195–3026 | 51.4 | 27 | 124 | 124 |
Storm | 962 | 1971–1492 | 56.9 | 24 | 86 | 98 |
Sultai Tendrils | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Dimir Tendrils | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | 1 | 1 | |
Dragonstorm | 18 | 22–40 | 35.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Hazoret Storm | 32 | 46–60 | 43.4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Citadel Storm | 13 | 7–34 | 17.1 | |||
High Tide | 546 | 1033–887 | 53.8 | 9 | 34 | 53 |
Grixis Tendrils | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Stormpost | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Paradoxical Outcome Storm | 8 | 4–12 | 25.0 | |||
Izzet Storm | 4 | 6–11 | 35.3 | |||
Song Storm | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Channel Storm | 316 | 832–402 | 67.4 | 14 | 49 | 43 |
Reanimator | 313 | 518–526 | 49.6 | 1 | 18 | 14 |
Recurring Nightmare | 233 | 415–390 | 51.6 | 1 | 15 | 12 |
Dragon Nightmare | 160 | 307–276 | 52.7 | 1 | 13 | 8 |
Jund Nightmare | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Worldgorger Dragon | 31 | 58–49 | 54.2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Dimir Cycling Reanimator | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 44 | 39–77 | 33.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Rakdos Reanimator | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Dimir Reanimator | 20 | 20–37 | 35.1 | |||
Mono Black Reanimator | 18 | 19–31 | 38.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Oriss Genesis | 18 | 20–23 | 46.5 | 1 | ||
Biovisionary | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Dubious Challenge | 14 | 19–21 | 47.5 | |||
Warp World | 74 | 129–139 | 48.1 | 3 | ||
Temur Glimpse | 7 | 10–17 | 37.0 | |||
Four Color Glimpse | 66 | 119–120 | 49.8 | 3 | ||
Zubera Tribal | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Maniac Combo | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |||
Hypergenesis | 22 | 31–44 | 41.3 | 1 | ||
New Perspectives | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Jeskai Ascendancy | 12 | 22–24 | 47.8 | |||
Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 7 | 9–12 | 42.9 | |||
Jeskai Jeskai Ascendancy | 5 | 13–12 | 52.0 | |||
Fake-Twin | 4 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
Metalwork Colossus | 18 | 34–29 | 54.0 | |||
Anvil Colossus | 7 | 17–11 | 60.7 | |||
Upheaval Colossus | 9 | 16–13 | 55.2 | |||
Seismic Swans | 4 | 8–11 | 42.1 | |||
Eggs | 27 | 13–54 | 19.4 | |||
Heartless Summoning Combo | 6 | 4–11 | 26.7 | |||
Blazing Shoal Combo | 17 | 18–25 | 41.9 | 0 | 2 | |
Taking Turns | 9 | 3–16 | 15.8 | |||
Ominous Good | 2 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
Soulflayer | 9 | 16–19 | 45.7 | |||
Reanim8 Rack | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
Breakfast | 87 | 136–142 | 48.9 | 2 | 9 | 4 |
Hermit Gond | 6 | 14–9 | 60.9 | |||
Oops All Spells | 43 | 70–62 | 53.0 | 2 | 8 | 2 |
Oops All Lands | 4 | 2–9 | 18.2 | |||
Dredge | 9 | 16–11 | 59.3 | 1 | ||
Polymorph | 5 | 6–11 | 35.3 | |||
Protean Hulk Combo | 10 | 16–19 | 45.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Dice Factory | 28 | 43–57 | 43.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Storm Herald | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
Enduring Ideal | 20 | 24–33 | 42.1 | |||
Ad Nauseam | 22 | 7–42 | 14.3 | |||
Ad Swanseam | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
GreenTwin | 17 | 18–35 | 34.0 | |||
Intruder Alarm | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Calibrated Blast | 4 | 5–8 | 38.5 | |||
Restore Balance | 50 | 53–99 | 34.9 | 0 | 5 | |
Stuffy Doll | 4 | 3–8 | 27.3 |