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 | 1430 | 2539–2377 | 51.6 | 12 | 122 | 73 |
Mono Black Aggro | 15 | 20–31 | 39.2 | |||
Heroic | 72 | 97–130 | 42.7 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
Mono White Heroic | 32 | 55–50 | 52.4 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Azorius Heroic | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 26 | 24–49 | 32.9 | 0 | 3 | |
Boros Heroic | 12 | 16–27 | 37.2 | |||
Red Deck Wins | 261 | 607–410 | 59.7 | 5 | 46 | 21 |
Mono Red Devotion | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Proliferate Red | 4 | 3–8 | 27.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Goblins | 68 | 102–116 | 46.8 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
Tokens | 63 | 103–94 | 52.3 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
Selesnya Tokens | 7 | 9–14 | 39.1 | |||
Mono White Tokens | 34 | 59–46 | 56.2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Orzhov Tokens | 18 | 35–25 | 58.3 | 1 | ||
Mono Green Stompy | 50 | 66–101 | 39.5 | 0 | 2 | |
White Weenie | 39 | 70–64 | 52.2 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Odric Keywords | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Quest for the Holy Relic | 21 | 48–33 | 59.3 | 2 | ||
Soldiers | 5 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |||
Elves | 49 | 96–88 | 52.2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Werewolves | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Minotaurs | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Warriors | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
Selesnya Little Kid | 12 | 18–20 | 47.4 | 1 | ||
Rogues | 20 | 29–38 | 43.3 | |||
Zombies | 18 | 21–41 | 33.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Gruul Aggro | 44 | 55–75 | 42.3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Gruul Landfall | 15 | 7–29 | 19.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Merfolk | 30 | 44–51 | 46.3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Mono Red Swarm | 13 | 27–23 | 54.0 | 1 | ||
8 Whack | 11 | 27–21 | 56.3 | 1 | ||
Artifact Aggro | 265 | 434–421 | 50.8 | 1 | 14 | 14 |
Affinity | 139 | 218–202 | 51.9 | 0 | 5 | 9 |
Hush-finity | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Salvage Titan | 7 | 5–18 | 21.7 | |||
Tempered Steel | 57 | 88–102 | 46.3 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Mono Blue Architect | 60 | 123–96 | 56.2 | 1 | 7 | 3 |
Madness | 34 | 52–62 | 45.6 | |||
Gruul Madness | 10 | 19–20 | 48.7 | |||
Golgari Madness | 3 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |||
Rakdos Madness | 18 | 25–27 | 48.1 | |||
Voltron | 64 | 117–111 | 51.3 | 0 | 7 | 5 |
Hexproof | 10 | 5–25 | 16.7 | 0 | 2 | |
Equipment Aggro | 3 | 0–9 | 0.0 | |||
Hateful Auras | 50 | 112–76 | 59.6 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
Slivers | 14 | 18–22 | 45.0 | |||
Naya Zoo | 3 | 8–6 | 57.1 | |||
Knights | 66 | 125–124 | 50.2 | 1 | 13 | |
AggroSlide | 109 | 244–147 | 62.4 | 2 | 18 | 12 |
Cats | 17 | 25–26 | 49.0 | 1 | ||
Selesnya Cats | 17 | 25–26 | 49.0 | 1 | ||
Rakdos Aggro | 14 | 19–28 | 40.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Boros Aggro | 13 | 22–25 | 46.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Humans | 9 | 9–13 | 40.9 | |||
Selesnya Humans | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Bant Humans | 6 | 8–9 | 47.1 | |||
Shamans | 44 | 89–65 | 57.8 | 2 | 6 | |
Brushwaggs | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Pirates | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Rats | 2 | 0–7 | 0.0 |