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, 2 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 1522 | 2949–2421 | 54.9 | 29 | 219 | 93 |
Mono Black Aggro | 27 | 41–55 | 42.7 | 0 | 3 | |
Heroic | 67 | 113–93 | 54.9 | 0 | 14 | 3 |
Mono White Heroic | 17 | 16–21 | 43.2 | 0 | 9 | |
Azorius Heroic | 6 | 6–11 | 35.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 42 | 90–59 | 60.4 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Boros Heroic | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Red Deck Wins | 341 | 772–532 | 59.2 | 10 | 71 | 20 |
Mono Red Devotion | 6 | 7–13 | 35.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Proliferate Red | 10 | 15–14 | 51.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Goblins | 55 | 95–99 | 49.0 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Tokens | 116 | 166–179 | 48.1 | 1 | 6 | 6 |
Selesnya Tokens | 52 | 87–90 | 49.2 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Mardu Tokens | 13 | 23–16 | 59.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Mono Green Stompy | 50 | 104–73 | 58.8 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
White Weenie | 351 | 853–468 | 64.6 | 13 | 71 | 39 |
Odric Keywords | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Quest for the Holy Relic | 12 | 27–15 | 64.3 | 1 | ||
Soldiers | 23 | 39–33 | 54.2 | 1 | 3 | |
Kithkin | 2 | 5–2 | 71.4 | |||
Elves | 79 | 119–133 | 47.2 | 4 | 14 | 1 |
Werewolves | 8 | 14–20 | 41.2 | |||
Minotaurs | 5 | 7–10 | 41.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Warriors | 6 | 14–9 | 60.9 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Selesnya Little Kid | 57 | 121–95 | 56.0 | 0 | 6 | 4 |
Rogues | 6 | 3–11 | 21.4 | |||
Zombies | 7 | 10–14 | 41.7 | |||
Gruul Aggro | 48 | 85–81 | 51.2 | 0 | 12 | 1 |
Gruul Landfall | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Merfolk | 19 | 17–38 | 30.9 | |||
Mono Red Swarm | 13 | 37–20 | 64.9 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Artifact Aggro | 53 | 52–115 | 31.1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Affinity | 14 | 11–28 | 28.2 | |||
Salvage Titan | 15 | 8–36 | 18.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Blue Architect | 20 | 29–43 | 40.3 | 1 | ||
Mono Blue Aggro | 15 | 18–29 | 38.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Illusions | 9 | 15–19 | 44.1 | |||
Madness | 15 | 21–30 | 41.2 | 0 | 2 | |
Gruul Madness | 2 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
Rakdos Madness | 5 | 6–9 | 40.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Jund Madness | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Voltron | 69 | 80–131 | 37.9 | 0 | 3 | |
Hexproof | 36 | 46–67 | 40.7 | 0 | 2 | |
Boros Auras | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Equipment Aggro | 14 | 9–24 | 27.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Slivers | 2 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Naya Zoo | 5 | 11–10 | 52.4 | |||
Rakdos Aggro | 13 | 34–19 | 64.2 | 1 | ||
Boros Aggro | 12 | 12–30 | 28.6 | |||
Humans | 38 | 91–54 | 62.8 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
Gruul Humans | 35 | 91–53 | 63.2 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
Selesnya Humans | 3 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Shamans | 3 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
Pirates | 2 | 0–1 | 0.0 |