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 | 540 | 1158–1076 | 51.8 | 32 | 187 | |
Mono Black Aggro | 8 | 15–16 | 48.4 | 1 | 3 | |
Heroic | 29 | 45–68 | 39.8 | 0 | 6 | |
Mono White Heroic | 14 | 21–29 | 42.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Boros Heroic | 14 | 22–37 | 37.3 | 0 | 3 | |
Red Deck Wins | 147 | 348–279 | 55.5 | 10 | 65 | |
Mono Red Devotion | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Prisoner | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Goblins | 10 | 24–24 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Tokens | 26 | 47–43 | 52.2 | 1 | 9 | |
Selesnya Tokens | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mono White Tokens | 18 | 42–31 | 57.5 | 1 | 8 | |
Orzhov Tokens | 7 | 5–11 | 31.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Green Stompy | 10 | 13–20 | 39.4 | 0 | 1 | |
White Weenie | 11 | 11–23 | 32.4 | 0 | 2 | |
Quest for the Holy Relic | 3 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
Soldiers | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Elves | 30 | 43–56 | 43.4 | 1 | 7 | |
Selesnya Little Kid | 10 | 26–20 | 56.5 | 0 | 4 | |
Selesnya Counters | 4 | 13–7 | 65.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Rogues | 4 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |||
Zombies | 10 | 23–21 | 52.3 | 0 | 4 | |
Gruul Aggro | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Gruul Landfall | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Merfolk | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Mono Red Swarm | 33 | 58–78 | 42.6 | 0 | 10 | |
8 Whack | 32 | 57–76 | 42.9 | 0 | 10 | |
Artifact Aggro | 28 | 42–65 | 39.3 | 0 | 3 | |
Affinity | 11 | 11–26 | 29.7 | |||
Boros Vehicles | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Tempered Steel | 13 | 24–29 | 45.3 | 0 | 3 | |
Devastating Dreams | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Madness | 3 | 11–8 | 57.9 | |||
Golgari Madness | 1 | 5–2 | 71.4 | |||
Jund Madness | 2 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |||
Voltron | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Hexproof | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Slivers | 5 | 5–12 | 29.4 | |||
Naya Zoo | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Knights | 15 | 16–29 | 35.6 | 1 | 2 | |
AggroSlide | 122 | 363–219 | 62.4 | 17 | 62 | |
Cats | 20 | 40–45 | 47.1 | 1 | 5 | |
Mono White Cats | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Selesnya Cats | 19 | 37–43 | 46.3 | 1 | 5 | |
Rakdos Aggro | 5 | 13–13 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Boros Aggro | 2 | 0–6 | 0.0 |