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.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 1271 | 2472–2242 | 52.4 | 23 | 173 | 68 |
Mono Black Aggro | 28 | 35–65 | 35.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Heroic | 54 | 112–93 | 54.6 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
Mono White Heroic | 8 | 16–13 | 55.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Azorius Heroic | 11 | 23–22 | 51.1 | 1 | ||
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 35 | 73–58 | 55.7 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Red Deck Wins | 317 | 722–530 | 57.7 | 7 | 49 | 27 |
Mono Red Devotion | 5 | 10–8 | 55.6 | |||
Prisoner | 7 | 12–17 | 41.4 | 0 | 2 | |
Proliferate Red | 5 | 6–10 | 37.5 | |||
Goblins | 17 | 23–36 | 39.0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Tokens | 70 | 69–154 | 30.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Selesnya Tokens | 14 | 21–20 | 51.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono White Tokens | 31 | 24–83 | 22.4 | |||
Orzhov Tokens | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Green Stompy | 69 | 173–117 | 59.7 | 0 | 8 | 4 |
White Weenie | 148 | 263–280 | 48.4 | 3 | 14 | 5 |
Odric Keywords | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Quest for the Holy Relic | 10 | 10–15 | 40.0 | |||
Soldiers | 24 | 44–46 | 48.9 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Kithkin | 4 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Chroma White | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
Elves | 4 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |||
Werewolves | 5 | 9–13 | 40.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Minotaurs | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Warriors | 5 | 4–8 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Selesnya Little Kid | 20 | 20–35 | 36.4 | 0 | 2 | |
Rogues | 9 | 20–18 | 52.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Zombies | 245 | 620–382 | 61.9 | 13 | 75 | 17 |
Gruul Aggro | 19 | 24–41 | 36.9 | 0 | 3 | |
Merfolk | 36 | 61–59 | 50.8 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Mono Red Swarm | 8 | 9–12 | 42.9 | |||
Artifact Aggro | 59 | 106–100 | 51.5 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Affinity | 28 | 50–45 | 52.6 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Salvage Titan | 6 | 8–18 | 30.8 | |||
Mono Blue Aggro | 4 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |||
Illusions | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Devastating Dreams | 21 | 43–32 | 57.3 | 0 | 4 | |
Madness | 9 | 8–20 | 28.6 | 1 | ||
Golgari Madness | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Rakdos Madness | 3 | 2–11 | 15.4 | |||
Voltron | 52 | 52–93 | 35.9 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Hexproof | 48 | 49–82 | 37.4 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Equipment Aggro | 3 | 3–6 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Slivers | 4 | 11–6 | 64.7 | |||
Naya Zoo | 7 | 7–11 | 38.9 | |||
Cats | 21 | 31–36 | 46.3 | 2 | ||
Mono White Cats | 13 | 21–18 | 53.8 | 2 | ||
Selesnya Cats | 8 | 10–18 | 35.7 | |||
Rakdos Aggro | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Boros Aggro | 3 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Humans | 14 | 21–37 | 36.2 | |||
Selesnya Humans | 11 | 19–31 | 38.0 | |||
Brushwaggs | 12 | 13–21 | 38.2 | 1 | ||
Rats | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 |