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, 1 day.
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro-Combo | 264 | 513–536 | 48.9 | 20 | 135 | |
| Aristocrats | 9 | 22–16 | 57.9 | 1 | 5 | |
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 5 | 15–9 | 62.5 | 1 | 3 | |
| Golgari Aristocrats | 1 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mardu Aristocrats | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Food | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Burn | 60 | 94–121 | 43.7 | 1 | 28 | |
| Infect | 51 | 89–109 | 44.9 | 1 | 21 | |
| Simic Infect | 42 | 78–91 | 46.2 | 1 | 17 | |
| Blazing Shoal Infect | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Trickbind Dreadnought | 128 | 278–254 | 52.3 | 16 | 73 | |
| Izzet Dreadnought | 53 | 112–104 | 51.9 | 6 | 33 | |
| Mono Blue Dreadnought | 74 | 165–148 | 52.7 | 10 | 40 | |
| Hushnought | 8 | 19–18 | 51.4 | 1 | 3 | |
| Liquimetal Fishing | 3 | 2–9 | 18.2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Combo Goblins | 5 | 9–9 | 50.0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Dirty Kitty | 5 | 9–9 | 50.0 | 0 | 4 |