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, 6 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 1004 | 1890–1790 | 51.4 | 25 | 168 | 42 |
Mono Black Aggro | 54 | 112–98 | 53.3 | 1 | 7 | 2 |
Heroic | 224 | 504–362 | 58.2 | 10 | 65 | 14 |
Mono White Heroic | 172 | 390–262 | 59.8 | 8 | 56 | 12 |
Azorius Heroic | 9 | 17–23 | 42.5 | |||
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 41 | 96–75 | 56.1 | 2 | 9 | 2 |
Boros Heroic | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Red Deck Wins | 177 | 385–301 | 56.1 | 10 | 49 | 11 |
Mono Red Devotion | 5 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
Proliferate Red | 6 | 4–15 | 21.1 | |||
Goblins | 27 | 39–52 | 42.9 | |||
Tokens | 22 | 37–40 | 48.1 | 0 | 3 | |
Selesnya Tokens | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
Mono White Tokens | 6 | 9–12 | 42.9 | 0 | 2 | |
Orzhov Tokens | 1 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Green Stompy | 30 | 49–49 | 50.0 | 2 | 6 | |
White Weenie | 44 | 85–96 | 47.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Odric Keywords | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Soldiers | 4 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |||
Kithkin | 5 | 6–14 | 30.0 | |||
Chroma White | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Elves | 92 | 197–169 | 53.8 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
Werewolves | 11 | 13–22 | 37.1 | |||
Warriors | 2 | 5–1 | 83.3 | 1 | ||
Selesnya Little Kid | 16 | 21–33 | 38.9 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Rogues | 51 | 86–87 | 49.7 | 2 | 13 | |
Zombies | 23 | 41–42 | 49.4 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
Gruul Aggro | 7 | 11–12 | 47.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Merfolk | 26 | 23–35 | 39.7 | 0 | 4 | |
Mono Red Swarm | 34 | 50–50 | 50.0 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
Artifact Aggro | 48 | 70–83 | 45.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Affinity | 35 | 54–63 | 46.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Boros Vehicles | 6 | 6–9 | 40.0 | |||
Salvage Titan | 6 | 7–9 | 43.8 | |||
Mono Blue Aggro | 26 | 35–43 | 44.9 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Illusions | 13 | 21–20 | 51.2 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Madness | 5 | 13–6 | 68.4 | 1 | ||
Gruul Madness | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Golgari Madness | 2 | 7–2 | 77.8 | |||
Voltron | 19 | 10–52 | 16.1 | |||
Hexproof | 5 | 1–13 | 7.1 | |||
Equipment Aggro | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Slivers | 7 | 1–17 | 5.6 | |||
Naya Zoo | 2 | 0–9 | 0.0 | |||
Rakdos Aggro | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Boros Aggro | 8 | 12–23 | 34.3 | |||
Humans | 14 | 37–31 | 54.4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Selesnya Humans | 14 | 37–31 | 54.4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Pirates | 3 | 1–5 | 16.7 |