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-Combo | 679 | 1189–1111 | 51.7 | 5 | 24 | 31 |
Aristocrats | 174 | 315–275 | 53.4 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
Mono Black Aristocrats | 7 | 5–14 | 26.3 | |||
Orzhov Aristocrats | 43 | 93–73 | 56.0 | 4 | ||
Golgari Aristocrats | 7 | 11–11 | 50.0 | |||
Abzan Aristocrats | 12 | 7–16 | 30.4 | |||
Food | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Rakdos Aristocrats | 17 | 26–21 | 55.3 | |||
Boros Bombardment | 40 | 91–62 | 59.5 | 0 | 2 | |
Burn | 68 | 93–120 | 43.7 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Infect | 226 | 438–378 | 53.7 | 3 | 14 | 13 |
Simic Infect | 157 | 323–243 | 57.1 | 3 | 11 | 12 |
Blazing Shoal Infect | 49 | 87–88 | 49.7 | 0 | 3 | |
Golgari Infect | 7 | 6–17 | 26.1 | |||
Turbo Myth | 3 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Trickbind Dreadnought | 32 | 48–53 | 47.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Mono Blue Dreadnought | 27 | 42–44 | 48.8 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Izzet Blitzkrieg | 17 | 20–24 | 45.5 | |||
Hushnought | 29 | 36–47 | 43.4 | 2 | ||
Liquimetal Fishing | 27 | 33–48 | 40.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Combo Goblins | 84 | 176–131 | 57.3 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
Goblin Persist | 30 | 67–42 | 61.5 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Dirty Kitty | 53 | 107–87 | 55.2 | 1 | 2 | 3 |