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 8 weeks, 3 days.
Decks
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Archetypes
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ |
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| Rakdos Midrange | 12 | 32–30 | 51.6 | 0 | 1 |
| Dimir Tendrils | 10 | 34–29 | 54.0 | ||
| Izzet Tempo | 10 | 15–26 | 36.6 | ||
| Red Deck Wins | 9 | 21–25 | 45.7 | ||
| Affinity | 8 | 24–23 | 51.1 | ||
| Mono White Heroic | 7 | 25–17 | 59.5 | 0 | 1 |
| Heart of Darkness | 6 | 19–20 | 48.7 | ||
| AggroSlide | 4 | 19–11 | 63.3 | 0 | 2 |
| Merfolk | 4 | 13–13 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 |
| Dredge | 3 | 8–10 | 44.4 | ||
| Azorius Control | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | ||
| Cawblade | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | ||
| Big Red | 2 | 8–7 | 53.3 | ||
| Dimir Control | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 |
| Zur's Weirding | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | ||
| Astral Slide | 1 | 3–3 | 50.0 | ||
| Azorius Skies | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | ||
| Burn | 1 | 2–4 | 33.3 | ||
| Cloudpost Ramp | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | ||
| Greenpost | 4 | 13–10 | 56.5 | ||
| Dimir Midrange | 1 | 5–3 | 62.5 | ||
| Four Color Counter Ghazi | 1 | 2–6 | 25.0 | ||
| Gruul Aggro | 1 | 3–5 | 37.5 | ||
| Izzet Blitzkrieg | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | ||
| Izzet Spells | 1 | 4–3 | 57.1 | ||
| Knights | 1 | 4–4 | 50.0 | ||
| Mardu Midrange | 1 | 3–3 | 50.0 | ||
| Mindcrank | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | ||
| Mono Blue Dreadnought | 1 | 10–1 | 90.9 | 1 | 1 |
| Mono Blue Tempo | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | ||
| Neoform | 1 | 3–4 | 42.9 | ||
| Orzhov Angels | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | ||
| Orzhov Midrange | 1 | 6–2 | 75.0 | 0 | 1 |
| Protean Hulk Combo | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | ||
| Rogues | 1 | 3–3 | 50.0 | ||
| Simic Infect | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | ||
| Soldiers | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | ||
| Sultai Midrange | 1 | 5–2 | 71.4 | ||
| Tempered Steel | 1 | 5–3 | 62.5 |