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 13 weeks.
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combo | 266 | 453–384 | 54.1 | 4 | 13 | 12 |
| Storm | 11 | 3–29 | 9.4 | |||
| Citadel Storm | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Grixis Tendrils | 3 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
| Paradoxical Outcome Storm | 7 | 2–20 | 9.1 | |||
| Reanimator | 5 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 3 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
| Necrotic Ooze Combo | 10 | 16–10 | 61.5 | 1 | ||
| Dubious Challenge | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
| Warp World | 59 | 158–70 | 69.3 | 3 | 7 | 7 |
| Hypergenesis | 6 | 10–10 | 50.0 | |||
| Runeflare | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Metalwork Colossus | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Upheaval Colossus | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Seismic Swans | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
| Blazing Shoal Combo | 9 | 21–15 | 58.3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Quest for Ula's Temple | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Izzet Ascension | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Breakfast | 4 | 12–4 | 75.0 | |||
| Oops All Spells | 4 | 12–4 | 75.0 | |||
| Oops All Lands | 69 | 129–78 | 62.3 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Dredge | 37 | 37–64 | 36.6 | 1 | ||
| Insidious Roots Dredge | 32 | 34–54 | 38.6 | 1 | ||
| Polymorph | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Storm Herald | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Enduring Ideal | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Tibalt's Trickery | 2 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
| Intruder Alarm | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Calibrated Blast | 4 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |||
| Restore Balance | 11 | 15–15 | 50.0 | 1 | ||
| Gyruda | 9 | 14–13 | 51.9 | 0 | 2 | |
| Actual Twin | 1 | |||||
| Izzet Twin | 1 |