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, 5 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro-Combo | 909 | 1902–1460 | 56.6 | 17 | 101 | 61 |
Aristocrats | 101 | 177–165 | 51.8 | 2 | 7 | 3 |
Mono Black Aristocrats | 20 | 24–33 | 42.1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Orzhov Aristocrats | 13 | 16–24 | 40.0 | |||
Golgari Aristocrats | 3 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
Abzan Aristocrats | 5 | 5–8 | 38.5 | |||
Food | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Rakdos Aristocrats | 42 | 107–62 | 63.3 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
Boros Bombardment | 4 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Burn | 58 | 84–120 | 41.2 | 1 | 4 | |
Infect | 204 | 410–340 | 54.7 | 1 | 8 | 14 |
Simic Infect | 172 | 366–292 | 55.6 | 1 | 8 | 14 |
Blazing Shoal Infect | 26 | 39–41 | 48.8 | |||
Golgari Infect | 4 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
Mono Black Infect | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Trickbind Dreadnought | 326 | 792–468 | 62.9 | 11 | 70 | 32 |
Izzet Dreadnought | 33 | 86–52 | 62.3 | 6 | ||
Mono Blue Dreadnought | 271 | 673–378 | 64.0 | 11 | 67 | 26 |
Izzet Blitzkrieg | 6 | 9–13 | 40.9 | |||
Hushnought | 24 | 43–38 | 53.1 | 1 | ||
Liquimetal Fishing | 33 | 31–59 | 34.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Combo Goblins | 154 | 356–252 | 58.6 | 2 | 11 | 11 |
Goblin Persist | 12 | 28–17 | 62.2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Dirty Kitty | 142 | 328–235 | 58.3 | 2 | 10 | 10 |