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 6 days, 11 hours.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro-Combo | 281 | 590–493 | 54.5 | 9 | 60 | 10 |
Turbo Myth | 16 | 28–33 | 45.9 | 0 | 2 |
Decks
Cards
Matchups
Archetype | Record | Win % |
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Aggro | 4–14 | 22.2 |
Heroic | 1–5 | 16.7 |
Mono White Heroic | 0–5 | 0.0 |
Red Deck Wins | 2–5 | 28.6 |
Tokens | 0–3 | 0.0 |
Selesnya Tokens | 0–3 | 0.0 |
White Weenie | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Soldiers | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Selesnya Little Kid | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Combo | 3–4 | 42.9 |
Reanimator | 0–2 | 0.0 |
Traditional Reanimator | 0–2 | 0.0 |
Hypergenesis | 1–1 | 50.0 |
Hyperwave | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Cat Wave | 1–1 | 50.0 |
Splendid Reclamation Combo | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Control | 6–3 | 66.7 |
Mono Black Control | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Azorius Control | 4–1 | 80.0 |
Adam's Ale | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Grixis Control | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Cruel Control | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Dragon Control | 2–0 | 100.0 |
Esper Dragons | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Grixis Dragons | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Aggro-Combo | 4–3 | 57.1 |
Aristocrats | 1–2 | 33.3 |
Orzhov Aristocrats | 1–1 | 50.0 |
Golgari Aristocrats | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Burn | 2–0 | 100.0 |
Turbo Myth | 1–1 | 50.0 |
Aggro-Control | 1–2 | 33.3 |
Temur Clues | 1–2 | 33.3 |
Midrange | 7–4 | 63.6 |
Temur Ascendancy | 0–2 | 0.0 |
Indestructible | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Enchantments Matter | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Orzhov Enchantress | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Mythic Colossification | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Ramp | 3–3 | 50.0 |
Devoid Cruelty | 1–2 | 33.3 |
Applejacks | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Orcish Aids | 0–1 | 0.0 |