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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | 1760 | 2788–2986 | 48.3 | 19 | 133 | 74 |
| Mono Black Control | 16 | 12–32 | 27.3 | 0 | 1 |
Decks
Cards
Matchups
| Archetype | Record | Win % |
|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 3–3 | 50.0 |
| Red Deck Wins | 0–2 | 0.0 |
| Gruul Aggro | 2–0 | 100.0 |
| Merfolk | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Artifact Aggro | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Affinity | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Hush-finity | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Combo | 2–9 | 18.2 |
| Storm | 0–3 | 0.0 |
| Dimir Tendrils | 0–2 | 0.0 |
| Dark Tide | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Hypergenesis | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Jeskai Ascendancy | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Seismic Swans | 1–1 | 50.0 |
| Breakfast | 0–2 | 0.0 |
| Oops All Spells | 0–2 | 0.0 |
| Ad Nauseam | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Control | 1–8 | 11.1 |
| Azorius Control | 1–5 | 16.7 |
| Cloudpost Control | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Stax | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Pox | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Aggro-Combo | 1–1 | 50.0 |
| Trickbind Dreadnought | 1–1 | 50.0 |
| Mono Blue Dreadnought | 1–1 | 50.0 |
| Aggro-Control | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Izzet Tempo | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Combo-Control | 2–2 | 50.0 |
| Battle of Wits | 1–1 | 50.0 |
| Mindcrank | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Resurgent Belief | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Midrange | 3–5 | 37.5 |
| The Rock | 0–2 | 0.0 |
| Jund | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Hellion Whip | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Dimir Midrange | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Hero of Precinct One | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Esper Hero | 1–0 | 100.0 |
| Artifact Midrange | 0–2 | 0.0 |
| Ramp | 0–3 | 0.0 |
| Cloudpost Ramp | 0–2 | 0.0 |
| Greenpost | 0–1 | 0.0 |
| Simic Post | 0–1 | 0.0 |