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 4 weeks.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Combo-Control | 10542 | 18344–18119–13 | 50.3 | 97 | 807 | 495 |
Mass Land Destruction | 4265 | 7693–7024–6 | 52.3 | 33 | 299 | 207 |
Wildfire | 1659 | 2828–2982–6 | 48.7 | 6 | 91 | 57 |
Thryx-Wildfire | 300 | 562–552 | 50.4 | 1 | 5 | 15 |
Borderpost Wildfire | 591 | 1079–978 | 52.5 | 1 | 29 | 27 |
Jokulhaups Control | 2606 | 4865–4042 | 54.6 | 27 | 208 | 150 |
Grixis Jokulhaups Control | 742 | 1409–1181 | 54.4 | 14 | 81 | 34 |
Jeskai Jokulhaups Control | 561 | 1064–739 | 59.0 | 2 | 22 | 51 |
Temur Jokulhaups Control | 454 | 842–700 | 54.6 | 3 | 30 | 28 |
Jund Jokulhaups Control | 202 | 381–366 | 51.0 | 3 | 22 | 5 |
WUBR Jokulhaups Control | 241 | 481–405 | 54.3 | 3 | 19 | 14 |
Mardu Jokulhaups Control | 229 | 423–364 | 53.7 | 0 | 16 | 13 |