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 | 903 | 1523–1503 | 50.3 | 2 | 87 | 40 |
Mono Black Aggro | 43 | 75–68 | 52.4 | 1 | 2 | |
Heroic | 42 | 54–62 | 46.6 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Mono White Heroic | 5 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |||
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 14 | 14–14 | 50.0 | 1 | ||
Boros Heroic | 21 | 30–35 | 46.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Selesnya Heroic | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Red Deck Wins | 222 | 464–346 | 57.3 | 0 | 27 | 18 |
Goblins | 5 | 7–7 | 50.0 | |||
Tokens | 19 | 19–32 | 37.3 | |||
Mono White Tokens | 11 | 14–19 | 42.4 | |||
Orzhov Tokens | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
Mono Green Stompy | 73 | 146–145 | 50.2 | 1 | 11 | 2 |
White Weenie | 37 | 73–60 | 54.9 | 0 | 13 | 2 |
Soldiers | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
Kithkin | 3 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Elves | 65 | 102–109 | 48.3 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
Werewolves | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Minotaurs | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
Selesnya Little Kid | 5 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
Rogues | 16 | 16–21 | 43.2 | 1 | ||
Zombies | 33 | 61–63 | 49.2 | 0 | 3 | |
Gruul Aggro | 36 | 42–67 | 38.5 | 0 | 2 | |
Gruul Landfall | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Merfolk | 5 | 3–9 | 25.0 | |||
Mono Red Swarm | 4 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Artifact Aggro | 143 | 221–216 | 50.6 | 0 | 11 | 8 |
Affinity | 28 | 23–52 | 30.7 | |||
Boros Vehicles | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Salvage Titan | 15 | 9–17 | 34.6 | |||
Tempered Steel | 86 | 165–127 | 56.5 | 0 | 11 | 7 |
Mono Blue Architect | 11 | 19–14 | 57.6 | 1 | ||
Devoid Aggro | 3 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Madness | 13 | 15–23 | 39.5 | |||
Gruul Madness | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Golgari Madness | 3 | 8–5 | 61.5 | |||
Rakdos Madness | 6 | 5–12 | 29.4 | |||
Voltron | 11 | 14–19 | 42.4 | |||
Hexproof | 8 | 11–15 | 42.3 | |||
Equipment Aggro | 3 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Slivers | 4 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |||
Knights | 12 | 23–17 | 57.5 | 1 | ||
AggroSlide | 45 | 74–75 | 49.7 | 0 | 12 | |
Cats | 7 | 10–18 | 35.7 | |||
Selesnya Cats | 7 | 10–18 | 35.7 | |||
Rakdos Aggro | 25 | 34–54 | 38.6 | 1 | ||
Boros Aggro | 11 | 11–21 | 34.4 | |||
Humans | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Selesnya Humans | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Shamans | 13 | 38–24 | 61.3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Pirates | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Rats | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 |