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 | 1120 | 1867–1853 | 50.2 | 19 | 143 | 35 |
Mono Black Aggro | 31 | 38–56 | 40.4 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Heroic | 28 | 23–47 | 32.9 | |||
Mono White Heroic | 4 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Azorius Heroic | 15 | 21–32 | 39.6 | |||
Boros Heroic | 5 | 1–8 | 11.1 | |||
Red Deck Wins | 256 | 559–408 | 57.8 | 9 | 47 | 8 |
Goblins | 24 | 15–39 | 27.8 | |||
Tokens | 102 | 157–173 | 47.6 | 2 | 11 | 3 |
Selesnya Tokens | 10 | 3–24 | 11.1 | |||
Mono White Tokens | 81 | 147–131 | 52.9 | 2 | 10 | 3 |
Mono Green Stompy | 121 | 267–200 | 57.2 | 3 | 21 | 4 |
White Weenie | 75 | 112–130 | 46.3 | 1 | 7 | |
Soldiers | 32 | 49–55 | 47.1 | 1 | 6 | |
Warriors | 11 | 9–12 | 42.9 | |||
Selesnya Little Kid | 28 | 44–50 | 46.8 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Selesnya Counters | 21 | 33–36 | 47.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Gruul Aggro | 27 | 44–46 | 48.9 | 0 | 4 | |
Gruul Landfall | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Merfolk | 17 | 3–29 | 9.4 | |||
Mono Red Swarm | 131 | 220–206 | 51.6 | 2 | 33 | 6 |
Artifact Aggro | 21 | 18–37 | 32.7 | |||
Affinity | 21 | 18–37 | 32.7 | |||
Devoid Aggro | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Mono Blue Aggro | 6 | 1–8 | 11.1 | |||
Madness | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Gruul Madness | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Voltron | 100 | 125–180 | 41.0 | 0 | 6 | 3 |
Hexproof | 23 | 24–42 | 36.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Boros Auras | 8 | 16–14 | 53.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Equipment Aggro | 4 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |||
Hateful Auras | 25 | 44–39 | 53.0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Knights | 95 | 179–150 | 54.4 | 2 | 7 | 9 |
Cats | 10 | 12–18 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono White Cats | 8 | 10–15 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Selesnya Cats | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Boros Aggro | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 |