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 3 weeks, 6 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Control | 1596 | 2681–2832 | 48.6 | 5 | 75 | 89 |
Mono Black Control | 62 | 90–122 | 42.5 | 2 | ||
Esper Control | 197 | 397–334 | 54.3 | 1 | 11 | 13 |
Demonic Rising | 28 | 40–61 | 39.6 | 2 | ||
Mono Blue Control | 104 | 197–166 | 54.3 | 3 | 22 | 6 |
Dimir Control | 72 | 91–144 | 38.7 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Azorius Control | 351 | 752–509 | 59.6 | 1 | 13 | 43 |
Cawblade | 3 | 6–5 | 54.5 | |||
Turbo Fog | 18 | 17–40 | 29.8 | |||
Izzet Control | 27 | 42–50 | 45.7 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Mill | 32 | 26–55 | 32.1 | 1 | ||
Boros Control | 13 | 23–20 | 53.5 | 2 | ||
Cloudpost Control | 75 | 121–151 | 44.5 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Azorius Cloudpost Control | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
Blackpost | 11 | 16–25 | 39.0 | |||
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 60 | 102–118 | 46.4 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Grixis Control | 52 | 62–100 | 38.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Cruel Control | 5 | 8–13 | 38.1 | |||
Stax | 47 | 80–94 | 46.0 | 0 | 3 | |
Chandra Nalaar | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Jeskai Control | 50 | 83–96 | 46.4 | 0 | 4 | |
Dragon Control | 10 | 13–24 | 35.1 | 1 | ||
Izzet Dragons | 9 | 13–22 | 37.1 | 1 | ||
Ponza | 62 | 84–121 | 41.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono White Control | 104 | 204–128 | 61.4 | 0 | 1 | 12 |
Life is Ez | 69 | 145–83 | 63.6 | 0 | 1 | 11 |
Dynavolt Tower | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Cycling Control | 11 | 7–28 | 20.0 | |||
Astral Slide | 8 | 4–20 | 16.7 | |||
Five Color Control | 22 | 25–49 | 33.8 | 0 | 4 | |
Five Color Collected Conjuring | 6 | 7–21 | 25.0 | |||
Shrines | 3 | 0–8 | 0.0 | |||
Sultai Control | 9 | 11–20 | 35.5 | |||
Sultai Ultimatum | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Guildgate Control | 70 | 87–151 | 36.6 | 1 | ||
Bant Control | 5 | 3–9 | 25.0 | |||
Pox | 82 | 113–172 | 39.6 | 0 | 6 | |
Four Color Counter Ghazi | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Seasons Past Control | 34 | 45–68 | 39.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Orzhov Control | 10 | 22–22 | 50.0 | |||
Prison | 35 | 38–72 | 34.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Enchantress | 34 | 37–69 | 34.9 | 0 | 1 |