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 | 4106 | 8143–7094 | 53.4 | 58 | 393 | 203 |
Mono Black Aggro | 52 | 74–96 | 43.5 | 1 | ||
Heroic | 424 | 958–714 | 57.3 | 12 | 61 | 21 |
Mono White Heroic | 318 | 750–523 | 58.9 | 12 | 60 | 15 |
Azorius Heroic | 7 | 10–19 | 34.5 | |||
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 86 | 178–139 | 56.2 | 6 | ||
Boros Heroic | 3 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Selesnya Heroic | 3 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |||
Red Deck Wins | 560 | 1273–903 | 58.5 | 11 | 77 | 42 |
Mono Red Devotion | 28 | 57–48 | 54.3 | 3 | ||
Proliferate Red | 4 | 11–9 | 55.0 | |||
Goblins | 86 | 125–165 | 43.1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Tokens | 90 | 159–187 | 46.0 | 0 | 6 | |
Selesnya Tokens | 34 | 58–75 | 43.6 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono White Tokens | 35 | 56–72 | 43.8 | 0 | 3 | |
Orzhov Tokens | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Green Stompy | 186 | 353–292 | 54.7 | 1 | 18 | 12 |
White Weenie | 213 | 332–403 | 45.2 | 0 | 12 | 7 |
Odric Keywords | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Soldiers | 19 | 26–41 | 38.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Kithkin | 10 | 12–27 | 30.8 | |||
Elves | 291 | 548–552 | 49.8 | 2 | 18 | 10 |
Werewolves | 7 | 11–15 | 42.3 | |||
Warriors | 3 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Selesnya Little Kid | 102 | 158–192 | 45.1 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
Selesnya Counters | 40 | 61–87 | 41.2 | |||
Rogues | 53 | 96–92 | 51.1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Zombies | 58 | 94–107 | 46.8 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Gruul Aggro | 40 | 62–79 | 44.0 | |||
Gruul Landfall | 12 | 6–27 | 18.2 | |||
Merfolk | 295 | 629–515 | 55.0 | 4 | 32 | 13 |
Mono Red Swarm | 67 | 94–112 | 45.6 | 3 | ||
Artifact Aggro | 901 | 1972–1458 | 57.5 | 20 | 94 | 58 |
Affinity | 721 | 1604–1165 | 57.9 | 20 | 91 | 45 |
Boros Vehicles | 4 | 8–8 | 50.0 | |||
Salvage Titan | 14 | 17–34 | 33.3 | |||
Tempered Steel | 94 | 181–160 | 53.1 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
Mono Blue Architect | 66 | 161–90 | 64.1 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
Devoid Aggro | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Mono Blue Aggro | 10 | 11–15 | 42.3 | |||
Illusions | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Madness | 50 | 98–98 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Golgari Madness | 35 | 71–64 | 52.6 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Rakdos Madness | 11 | 17–28 | 37.8 | 1 | ||
Voltron | 139 | 182–269 | 40.4 | 1 | 11 | 1 |
Hexproof | 98 | 136–199 | 40.6 | 1 | 11 | |
Equipment Aggro | 28 | 28–50 | 35.9 | |||
Hateful Auras | 12 | 17–16 | 51.5 | 1 | ||
Slivers | 4 | 2–10 | 16.7 | |||
Naya Zoo | 12 | 14–25 | 35.9 | |||
Knights | 26 | 51–38 | 57.3 | 1 | ||
AggroSlide | 192 | 433–340 | 56.0 | 5 | 41 | 8 |
Cats | 97 | 217–156 | 58.2 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
Mono White Cats | 3 | 10–5 | 66.7 | |||
Selesnya Cats | 94 | 207–151 | 57.8 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
Rakdos Aggro | 72 | 111–120 | 48.1 | 1 | 10 | 4 |
Boros Aggro | 6 | 12–11 | 52.2 | 1 | ||
Humans | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Selesnya Humans | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Brushwaggs | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Rats | 3 | 1–5 | 16.7 |