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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 203 | 284–272–8 | 51.1 | 7 | 29 | 2 |
| Mono Black Aggro | 6 | 8–5–2 | 61.5 | 1 | 2 | |
| Heroic | 32 | 47–46–1 | 50.5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Mono White Heroic | 15 | 27–18–1 | 60.0 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Azorius Heroic | 10 | 14–17 | 45.2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 3 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
| Boros Heroic | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Selesnya Heroic | 1 | |||||
| Red Deck Wins | 24 | 66–29–3 | 69.5 | 3 | 10 | |
| Mono Red Devotion | 7 | 11–9–1 | 55.0 | 0 | 3 | |
| Goblins | 5 | 8–6 | 57.1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Tokens | 11 | 15–15 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Selesnya Tokens | 8 | 14–12 | 53.8 | 0 | 2 | |
| Mono Green Stompy | 10 | 17–12–1 | 58.6 | 0 | 2 | |
| White Weenie | 21 | 36–29–1 | 55.4 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Odric Keywords | 11 | 21–14–1 | 60.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Soldiers | 1 | |||||
| Kithkin | 1 | 5–2 | 71.4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Elves | 19 | 28–29 | 49.1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Werewolves | 5 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Minotaurs | 5 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Warriors | 1 | |||||
| Rogues | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Zombies | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Gruul Aggro | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Merfolk | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 3 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Affinity | 3 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Devoid Aggro | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Aggro | 4 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
| Madness | 9 | 17–23 | 42.5 | |||
| Gruul Madness | 5 | 11–10 | 52.4 | |||
| Rakdos Madness | 3 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |||
| Voltron | 4 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
| Equipment Aggro | 4 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
| Slivers | 9 | 4–16 | 20.0 |