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, 2 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 1222 | 2304–1952 | 54.1 | 9 | 110 | 52 |
Mono Black Aggro | 38 | 85–67 | 55.9 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Heroic | 124 | 211–217 | 49.3 | 0 | 8 | 5 |
Mono White Heroic | 48 | 70–78 | 47.3 | 0 | 4 | |
Azorius Heroic | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 60 | 129–106 | 54.9 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Boros Heroic | 15 | 12–32 | 27.3 | 0 | 3 | |
Red Deck Wins | 195 | 436–290 | 60.1 | 3 | 36 | 11 |
Proliferate Red | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Goblins | 57 | 121–99 | 55.0 | 2 | 11 | 2 |
Tokens | 39 | 50–65 | 43.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Selesnya Tokens | 29 | 40–42 | 48.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Mono White Tokens | 3 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Mono Green Stompy | 148 | 299–221 | 57.5 | 4 | 20 | 9 |
White Weenie | 65 | 132–102 | 56.4 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Quest for the Holy Relic | 9 | 10–17 | 37.0 | |||
Soldiers | 7 | 14–9 | 60.9 | |||
Elves | 49 | 78–76 | 50.6 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Werewolves | 3 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Selesnya Little Kid | 4 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Rogues | 6 | 3–10 | 23.1 | |||
Zombies | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Gruul Aggro | 16 | 22–30 | 42.3 | |||
Gruul Landfall | 6 | 6–10 | 37.5 | |||
Merfolk | 12 | 12–26 | 31.6 | |||
Mono Red Swarm | 5 | 8–5 | 61.5 | |||
Artifact Aggro | 227 | 456–356 | 56.2 | 0 | 11 | 14 |
Affinity | 167 | 341–259 | 56.8 | 0 | 7 | 11 |
Salvage Titan | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Tempered Steel | 28 | 46–44 | 51.1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Mono Blue Architect | 30 | 67–47 | 58.8 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Mono Blue Aggro | 3 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Madness | 37 | 44–60 | 42.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Gruul Madness | 4 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
Golgari Madness | 4 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
Rakdos Madness | 18 | 25–31 | 44.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Jund Madness | 9 | 9–13 | 40.9 | |||
Voltron | 48 | 83–74 | 52.9 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Hexproof | 39 | 62–57 | 52.1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Equipment Aggro | 3 | 6–5 | 54.5 | |||
Hateful Auras | 6 | 15–12 | 55.6 | |||
Slivers | 4 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |||
Naya Zoo | 7 | 8–13 | 38.1 | |||
Knights | 51 | 87–86 | 50.3 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
AggroSlide | 42 | 94–60 | 61.0 | 0 | 12 | 1 |
Cats | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Selesnya Cats | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Rakdos Aggro | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Boros Aggro | 11 | 13–18 | 41.9 | |||
Humans | 6 | 11–12 | 47.8 | |||
Selesnya Humans | 6 | 11–12 | 47.8 | |||
Shamans | 14 | 28–26 | 51.9 | 0 | 1 |