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 | 691 | 1590–1346 | 54.2 | 39 | 244 | |
Heroic | 65 | 143–131 | 52.2 | 1 | 27 | |
Mono White Heroic | 51 | 118–101 | 53.9 | 1 | 22 | |
Azorius Heroic | 3 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 7 | 19–15 | 55.9 | 0 | 3 | |
Boros Heroic | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Red Deck Wins | 136 | 345–270 | 56.1 | 8 | 49 | |
Mono Red Devotion | 4 | 8–8 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Goblins | 10 | 8–21 | 27.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Tokens | 15 | 11–31 | 26.2 | 0 | 3 | |
Selesnya Tokens | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mono White Tokens | 13 | 10–28 | 26.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono Green Stompy | 18 | 28–41 | 40.6 | 0 | 3 | |
White Weenie | 49 | 122–101 | 54.7 | 1 | 22 | |
Quest for the Holy Relic | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Soldiers | 11 | 25–23 | 52.1 | 0 | 4 | |
Elves | 33 | 60–70 | 46.2 | 3 | 4 | |
Selesnya Little Kid | 7 | 12–15 | 44.4 | 1 | 1 | |
Selesnya Counters | 3 | 7–6 | 53.8 | 1 | 1 | |
Rogues | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Zombies | 109 | 271–194 | 58.3 | 6 | 48 | |
Gruul Aggro | 10 | 16–23 | 41.0 | |||
Mono Red Swarm | 7 | 12–13 | 48.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Artifact Aggro | 13 | 17–26 | 39.5 | 0 | 4 | |
Affinity | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Salvage Titan | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Tempered Steel | 10 | 16–19 | 45.7 | 0 | 4 | |
Mono Blue Architect | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Madness | 2 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
Gruul Madness | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Rakdos Madness | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Voltron | 13 | 29–33 | 46.8 | 1 | 4 | |
Hexproof | 5 | 15–11 | 57.7 | 1 | 3 | |
Hateful Auras | 5 | 8–13 | 38.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Naya Zoo | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Knights | 38 | 87–73 | 54.4 | 0 | 10 | |
AggroSlide | 148 | 402–262 | 60.5 | 18 | 61 | |
Cats | 7 | 12–11 | 52.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono White Cats | 7 | 12–11 | 52.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Boros Aggro | 4 | 5–9 | 35.7 | 0 | 2 | |
Humans | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Selesnya Humans | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Pirates | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 |