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, 5 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro-Combo | 904 | 1650–1505 | 52.3 | 8 | 48 | 38 |
Aristocrats | 283 | 495–439 | 53.0 | 0 | 11 | 16 |
Mono Black Aristocrats | 158 | 258–235 | 52.3 | 0 | 9 | 11 |
Orzhov Aristocrats | 44 | 75–67 | 52.8 | 2 | ||
Golgari Aristocrats | 40 | 79–67 | 54.1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Abzan Aristocrats | 8 | 9–8 | 52.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Mardu Aristocrats | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Rakdos Aristocrats | 28 | 66–54 | 55.0 | 1 | ||
Burn | 89 | 142–168 | 45.8 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Infect | 146 | 225–249 | 47.5 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Simic Infect | 42 | 64–76 | 45.7 | 1 | ||
Blazing Shoal Infect | 85 | 127–136 | 48.3 | 2 | ||
Golgari Infect | 11 | 26–21 | 55.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Pummeler | 4 | 10–10 | 50.0 | |||
Hermit Humans | 2 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
Trickbind Dreadnought | 105 | 173–147 | 54.1 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
Mono Blue Dreadnought | 62 | 112–81 | 58.0 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
Izzet Blitzkrieg | 32 | 54–62 | 46.6 | |||
Chancellor of the Forge Combo | 13 | 22–29 | 43.1 | |||
Hushnought | 184 | 437–306 | 58.8 | 8 | 29 | 11 |
Combo Goblins | 44 | 89–85 | 51.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Goblin Persist | 43 | 86–83 | 50.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Dirty Kitty | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 |