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 | 2396 | 4607–4082–1 | 53.0 | 40 | 246 | 107 |
Mono Black Aggro | 20 | 29–36 | 44.6 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Heroic | 387 | 822–609–1 | 57.4 | 9 | 46 | 26 |
Mono White Heroic | 354 | 762–563–1 | 57.5 | 9 | 44 | 21 |
Azorius Heroic | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 25 | 49–29 | 62.8 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
Boros Heroic | 3 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
Red Deck Wins | 151 | 315–240 | 56.8 | 0 | 14 | 8 |
Mono Red Devotion | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Goblins | 58 | 119–99 | 54.6 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Tokens | 24 | 30–44 | 40.5 | |||
Selesnya Tokens | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
Mono White Tokens | 21 | 27–38 | 41.5 | |||
Mono Green Stompy | 30 | 36–51 | 41.4 | |||
White Weenie | 127 | 191–214 | 47.2 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
Quest for the Holy Relic | 74 | 126–111 | 53.2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Soldiers | 12 | 17–19 | 47.2 | 1 | ||
Kithkin | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Chroma White | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Elves | 334 | 616–584 | 51.3 | 3 | 33 | 12 |
Werewolves | 14 | 23–29 | 44.2 | |||
Minotaurs | 2 | 0–8 | 0.0 | |||
Warriors | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Selesnya Little Kid | 17 | 26–39 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Selesnya Counters | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Rogues | 30 | 48–53 | 47.5 | 1 | ||
Zombies | 50 | 63–93 | 40.4 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Gruul Aggro | 60 | 111–102 | 52.1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Gruul Landfall | 10 | 18–18 | 50.0 | |||
Merfolk | 53 | 107–105 | 50.5 | 1 | 5 | |
Mono Red Swarm | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Artifact Aggro | 615 | 1366–997 | 57.8 | 19 | 97 | 33 |
Affinity | 545 | 1244–878 | 58.6 | 19 | 93 | 31 |
Hush-finity | 25 | 58–43 | 57.4 | 1 | 3 | |
Salvage Titan | 10 | 4–15 | 21.1 | |||
Tempered Steel | 26 | 48–47 | 50.5 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono Blue Architect | 34 | 70–57 | 55.1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Mono Blue Aggro | 9 | 18–17 | 51.4 | |||
Madness | 24 | 36–42 | 46.2 | |||
Gruul Madness | 16 | 28–27 | 50.9 | |||
Golgari Madness | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Rakdos Madness | 4 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
Jund Madness | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Voltron | 24 | 13–48 | 21.3 | |||
Hexproof | 20 | 8–41 | 16.3 | |||
Equipment Aggro | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Hateful Auras | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
Slivers | 40 | 42–89 | 32.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Naya Zoo | 8 | 13–20 | 39.4 | |||
Knights | 21 | 47–45 | 51.1 | |||
AggroSlide | 197 | 391–328 | 54.4 | 8 | 29 | 12 |
Cats | 14 | 17–27 | 38.6 | |||
Selesnya Cats | 14 | 17–27 | 38.6 | |||
Rakdos Aggro | 46 | 80–72 | 52.6 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
Rakdos Hellbent | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Boros Aggro | 3 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |||
Humans | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
Shamans | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Brushwaggs | 3 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Pirates | 8 | 8–20 | 28.6 |