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 2 weeks, 2 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 911 | 1982–1815 | 52.2 | 58 | 393 | |
Mono Black Aggro | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Heroic | 133 | 325–242 | 57.3 | 12 | 61 | |
Mono White Heroic | 127 | 319–231 | 58.0 | 12 | 60 | |
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 5 | 3–10 | 23.1 | |||
Red Deck Wins | 179 | 411–354 | 53.7 | 11 | 77 | |
Mono Red Devotion | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Goblins | 8 | 7–20 | 25.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Tokens | 10 | 19–22 | 46.3 | 0 | 6 | |
Selesnya Tokens | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono White Tokens | 7 | 11–16 | 40.7 | 0 | 3 | |
Mono Green Stompy | 39 | 68–81 | 45.6 | 1 | 18 | |
White Weenie | 34 | 50–79 | 38.8 | 0 | 12 | |
Odric Keywords | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Soldiers | 4 | 7–10 | 41.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Elves | 38 | 73–80 | 47.7 | 2 | 18 | |
Werewolves | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Selesnya Little Kid | 11 | 18–21 | 46.2 | 0 | 4 | |
Rogues | 6 | 7–15 | 31.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Zombies | 4 | 11–8 | 57.9 | 1 | 1 | |
Gruul Aggro | 2 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
Merfolk | 73 | 167–150 | 52.7 | 4 | 32 | |
Mono Red Swarm | 4 | 2–10 | 16.7 | |||
Artifact Aggro | 189 | 469–357 | 56.8 | 20 | 94 | |
Affinity | 172 | 441–323 | 57.7 | 20 | 91 | |
Tempered Steel | 15 | 22–30 | 42.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono Blue Architect | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Madness | 10 | 18–23 | 43.9 | 0 | 2 | |
Golgari Madness | 10 | 18–23 | 43.9 | 0 | 2 | |
Voltron | 29 | 47–67 | 41.2 | 1 | 11 | |
Hexproof | 24 | 41–56 | 42.3 | 1 | 11 | |
Equipment Aggro | 5 | 6–11 | 35.3 | |||
Knights | 2 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
AggroSlide | 92 | 222–180 | 55.2 | 5 | 41 | |
Cats | 13 | 17–28 | 37.8 | 0 | 2 | |
Selesnya Cats | 13 | 17–28 | 37.8 | 0 | 2 | |
Rakdos Aggro | 21 | 34–38 | 47.2 | 1 | 10 | |
Boros Aggro | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 |