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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 12 weeks, 3 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Combo | 848 | 1447–1416 | 50.5 | 6 | 67 | 31 |
Storm | 158 | 266–285 | 48.3 | 0 | 7 | 6 |
Dimir Tendrils | 56 | 78–100 | 43.8 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Dragonstorm | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Citadel Storm | 86 | 182–158 | 53.5 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
Stormpost | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Blue Post Desire | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Paradoxical Outcome Storm | 2 | 0–8 | 0.0 | |||
Reanimator | 5 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 5 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 90 | 159–129 | 55.2 | 2 | 9 | 3 |
Dubious Challenge | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Warp World | 6 | 7–15 | 31.8 | |||
Four Color Glimpse | 4 | 5–11 | 31.3 | |||
Maniac Combo | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Hypergenesis | 118 | 218–187 | 53.8 | 2 | 16 | 3 |
New Perspectives | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Jeskai Ascendancy | 30 | 46–44 | 51.1 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 27 | 44–36 | 55.0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Jeskai Jeskai Ascendancy | 3 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
Metalwork Colossus | 8 | 14–15 | 48.3 | |||
Anvil Colossus | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Seismic Swans | 15 | 36–35 | 50.7 | 0 | 4 | |
Eggs | 4 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |||
Heartless Summoning Combo | 6 | 6–12 | 33.3 | |||
Taking Turns | 7 | 11–11 | 50.0 | 1 | ||
Quest for Ula's Temple | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Izzet Ascension | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Soulflayer | 24 | 47–48 | 49.5 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
Reanim8 Rack | 14 | 26–26 | 50.0 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
Breakfast | 9 | 25–18 | 58.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Unctus | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Oops All Lands | 32 | 80–57 | 58.4 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
Dredge | 11 | 9–25 | 26.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Polymorph | 51 | 70–74 | 48.6 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
Dice Factory | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Storm Herald | 8 | 8–15 | 34.8 | |||
Enduring Ideal | 41 | 89–70 | 56.0 | 1 | 9 | 3 |
Ad Nauseam | 9 | 10–15 | 40.0 | |||
Tibalt's Trickery | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Calibrated Blast | 13 | 27–19 | 58.7 | 1 | ||
Restore Balance | 11 | 13–18 | 41.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Gyruda | 7 | 14–12 | 53.8 | |||
Belcher | 18 | 37–37 | 50.0 | 1 | ||
Tameshi Bloom | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Possibility Storm | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Phoenix Altar | 5 | 8–10 | 44.4 | |||
Actual Twin | 87 | 162–116 | 58.3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
Izzet Twin | 70 | 138–96 | 59.0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
Boros Twin | 9 | 15–11 | 57.7 |