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, 5 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro-Control | 895 | 1689–1378 | 55.1 | 12 | 81 | 55 |
Izzet Tempo | 310 | 635–495 | 56.2 | 5 | 26 | 23 |
Azorius Skies | 6 | 9–14 | 39.1 | |||
Blue Madness | 16 | 20–27 | 42.6 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Simic Madness | 10 | 11–16 | 40.7 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Temur Madness | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
Lich Aggro-Control | 22 | 34–32 | 51.5 | 2 | ||
Wizards | 150 | 241–234 | 50.7 | 2 | 11 | 6 |
Ninjas | 25 | 64–43 | 59.8 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Mono Blue Gush | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Blue Tempo | 166 | 330–245 | 57.4 | 3 | 18 | 15 |
Mono Blue Faeries | 16 | 26–20 | 56.5 | 1 | ||
Izzet Spells | 9 | 14–11 | 56.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Dimir Tempo | 50 | 52–66 | 44.1 | |||
Dimir Faeries | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Ensoul Aggro-Control | 119 | 253–179 | 58.6 | 2 | 19 | 7 |
Azorius Tempo | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 |