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 14 weeks, 5 days.
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combo | 157 | 347–300 | 53.6 | 14 | 81 | |
| Storm | 76 | 173–139 | 55.4 | 11 | 39 | |
| Dragonstorm | 4 | 4–11 | 26.7 | 0 | 2 | |
| Citadel Storm | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| High Tide | 70 | 168–123 | 57.7 | 11 | 37 | |
| Biovisionary | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Hypergenesis | 4 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
| Blazing Shoal Combo | 6 | 11–11 | 50.0 | 1 | 2 | |
| Quest for Ula's Temple | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Izzet Ascension | 2 | 7–2 | 77.8 | 0 | 2 | |
| Soulflayer | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | 0 | 1 | |
| Breakfast | 11 | 25–24 | 51.0 | 0 | 6 | |
| Oops All Spells | 3 | 8–7 | 53.3 | 0 | 2 | |
| Unctus | 8 | 17–17 | 50.0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Dredge | 28 | 66–59 | 52.8 | 2 | 17 | |
| Polymorph | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Calibrated Blast | 1 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
| Restore Balance | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Gyruda | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Belcher | 20 | 47–40 | 54.0 | 0 | 11 | |
| Possibility Storm | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 |