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, 6 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 1155 | 2043–1918–2 | 51.6 | 18 | 176 | 51 |
Mono Black Aggro | 19 | 25–27 | 48.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Heroic | 54 | 89–92 | 49.2 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
Mono White Heroic | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 14 | 25–16 | 61.0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Boros Heroic | 36 | 61–68 | 47.3 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Red Deck Wins | 136 | 340–192–1 | 63.9 | 2 | 12 | 17 |
Goblins | 15 | 15–20 | 42.9 | |||
Tokens | 43 | 91–61 | 59.9 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
Selesnya Tokens | 6 | 8–7 | 53.3 | 1 | ||
Mono White Tokens | 27 | 60–38 | 61.2 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Orzhov Tokens | 6 | 19–11 | 63.3 | |||
Mono Green Stompy | 63 | 120–106 | 53.1 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
White Weenie | 258 | 524–446–1 | 54.0 | 9 | 76 | 11 |
Quest for the Holy Relic | 10 | 18–12 | 60.0 | 1 | ||
Soldiers | 10 | 11–18 | 37.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Elves | 112 | 179–185 | 49.2 | 2 | 13 | 3 |
Warriors | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Selesnya Little Kid | 8 | 5–11 | 31.3 | |||
Rogues | 4 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Zombies | 22 | 30–38 | 44.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Gruul Aggro | 14 | 9–33 | 21.4 | |||
Gruul Landfall | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
Merfolk | 4 | 7–5 | 58.3 | |||
Mono Red Swarm | 20 | 37–26 | 58.7 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Artifact Aggro | 233 | 380–405 | 48.4 | 5 | 44 | 3 |
Affinity | 126 | 189–222 | 46.0 | 2 | 28 | 1 |
Salvage Titan | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Tempered Steel | 94 | 185–158 | 53.9 | 3 | 16 | 2 |
Mono Blue Architect | 10 | 5–17 | 22.7 | |||
Devoid Aggro | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Blue Aggro | 6 | 11–9 | 55.0 | 1 | ||
Illusions | 6 | 11–9 | 55.0 | 1 | ||
Madness | 13 | 17–23 | 42.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Golgari Madness | 3 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
Rakdos Madness | 10 | 9–16 | 36.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Voltron | 33 | 52–64 | 44.8 | 0 | 2 | |
Hexproof | 16 | 19–32 | 37.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Equipment Aggro | 9 | 15–19 | 44.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Hateful Auras | 8 | 18–13 | 58.1 | |||
Slivers | 5 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
Naya Zoo | 8 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
Knights | 9 | 11–14 | 44.0 | 0 | 1 | |
AggroSlide | 12 | 23–25 | 47.9 | 0 | 5 | |
Rakdos Aggro | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Boros Aggro | 26 | 37–43 | 46.3 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Humans | 7 | 7–12 | 36.8 | |||
Selesnya Humans | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Boros Humans | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Shamans | 3 | 7–4 | 63.6 | |||
Rats | 23 | 18–44 | 29.0 | 0 | 2 |