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 | 1324 | 2147–2252 | 48.8 | 19 | 158 | 43 |
Mono Black Aggro | 7 | 11–19 | 36.7 | |||
Heroic | 72 | 126–117 | 51.9 | 1 | 6 | 3 |
Mono White Heroic | 53 | 103–85 | 54.8 | 1 | 6 | 3 |
Azorius Heroic | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 10 | 12–17 | 41.4 | |||
Boros Heroic | 7 | 7–12 | 36.8 | |||
Red Deck Wins | 378 | 721–600 | 54.6 | 7 | 69 | 14 |
Mono Red Devotion | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Goblins | 68 | 77–120 | 39.1 | 0 | 7 | |
Tokens | 7 | 7–15 | 31.8 | |||
Selesnya Tokens | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Mono White Tokens | 3 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |||
Mono Green Stompy | 18 | 19–30 | 38.8 | 0 | 3 | |
White Weenie | 95 | 153–148 | 50.8 | 2 | 10 | 3 |
Quest for the Holy Relic | 9 | 6–10 | 37.5 | 0 | 2 | |
Soldiers | 43 | 78–65 | 54.5 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
Kithkin | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Chroma White | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Elves | 175 | 352–281 | 55.6 | 6 | 24 | 9 |
Werewolves | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Minotaurs | 4 | 1–9 | 10.0 | |||
Warriors | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Selesnya Little Kid | 18 | 30–39 | 43.5 | |||
Rogues | 3 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |||
Zombies | 11 | 13–16 | 44.8 | |||
Gruul Aggro | 26 | 39–45 | 46.4 | 1 | ||
Gruul Landfall | 5 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |||
Merfolk | 22 | 37–37 | 50.0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Mono Red Swarm | 14 | 26–22 | 54.2 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Artifact Aggro | 258 | 351–478 | 42.3 | 3 | 30 | 7 |
Affinity | 147 | 165–291 | 36.2 | 0 | 13 | 3 |
Salvage Titan | 13 | 10–28 | 26.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Tempered Steel | 92 | 174–146 | 54.4 | 3 | 15 | 4 |
Mono Blue Architect | 4 | 2–10 | 16.7 | |||
Madness | 20 | 26–47 | 35.6 | |||
Golgari Madness | 7 | 17–12 | 58.6 | |||
Rakdos Madness | 7 | 9–24 | 27.3 | |||
Jund Madness | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Voltron | 17 | 19–27 | 41.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Hexproof | 6 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |||
Equipment Aggro | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Hateful Auras | 9 | 10–13 | 43.5 | |||
Slivers | 2 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
Naya Zoo | 4 | 7–10 | 41.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Knights | 19 | 30–30 | 50.0 | 1 | ||
AggroSlide | 16 | 17–16 | 51.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Cats | 4 | 9–1 | 90.0 | 1 | ||
Selesnya Cats | 4 | 9–1 | 90.0 | 1 | ||
Rakdos Aggro | 20 | 27–46 | 37.0 | |||
Boros Aggro | 16 | 14–23 | 37.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Humans | 19 | 27–34 | 44.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Selesnya Humans | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Jeskai Humans | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Boros Humans | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Azorius Humans | 3 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Brushwaggs | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 |