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 | 517 | 882–931 | 48.6 | 4 | 40 | 15 |
Aristocrats | 131 | 225–245 | 47.9 | 1 | 7 | 4 |
Mono Black Aristocrats | 24 | 34–33 | 50.7 | |||
Orzhov Aristocrats | 56 | 105–108 | 49.3 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
Golgari Aristocrats | 8 | 11–21 | 34.4 | 1 | ||
Abzan Aristocrats | 4 | 4–11 | 26.7 | |||
Mardu Aristocrats | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Food | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Rakdos Aristocrats | 11 | 19–20 | 48.7 | |||
Boros Bombardment | 8 | 20–8 | 71.4 | 1 | ||
Burn | 132 | 254–221 | 53.5 | 1 | 13 | 6 |
Infect | 78 | 109–156 | 41.1 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Simic Infect | 17 | 23–29 | 44.2 | |||
Blazing Shoal Infect | 45 | 70–94 | 42.7 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Pummeler | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Hermit Humans | 15 | 18–26 | 40.9 | |||
Trickbind Dreadnought | 35 | 64–60 | 51.6 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Izzet Dreadnought | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Mono Blue Dreadnought | 9 | 16–13 | 55.2 | |||
Izzet Blitzkrieg | 31 | 63–65 | 49.2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Hushnought | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Liquimetal Fishing | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Combo Goblins | 72 | 127–125 | 50.4 | 2 | 12 | 1 |
Goblin Persist | 21 | 30–30 | 50.0 | |||
Dirty Kitty | 49 | 95–91 | 51.1 | 2 | 12 | 1 |