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 | 1192 | 2039–2073 | 49.6 | 12 | 155 | 54 |
Mono Black Aggro | 12 | 13–26 | 33.3 | |||
Heroic | 70 | 108–108 | 50.0 | 1 | 6 | 5 |
Mono White Heroic | 7 | 16–9 | 64.0 | 1 | ||
Azorius Heroic | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Boros Heroic | 14 | 14–20 | 41.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Selesnya Heroic | 46 | 76–74 | 50.7 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
Red Deck Wins | 230 | 419–395 | 51.5 | 3 | 31 | 11 |
Mono Red Devotion | 8 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |||
Goblins | 88 | 141–149 | 48.6 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
Tokens | 11 | 6–17 | 26.1 | |||
Selesnya Tokens | 4 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Mono White Tokens | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Orzhov Tokens | 4 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
Mono Green Stompy | 24 | 43–38 | 53.1 | 2 | ||
White Weenie | 48 | 69–98 | 41.3 | 0 | 3 | |
Quest for the Holy Relic | 4 | 9–10 | 47.4 | |||
Soldiers | 3 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Kithkin | 5 | 4–13 | 23.5 | |||
Chroma White | 7 | 8–16 | 33.3 | |||
Elves | 106 | 189–191 | 49.7 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Warriors | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Selesnya Little Kid | 17 | 25–34 | 42.4 | |||
Selesnya Counters | 14 | 22–30 | 42.3 | |||
Zombies | 3 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
Gruul Aggro | 71 | 131–123 | 51.6 | 0 | 8 | 7 |
Merfolk | 5 | 3–9 | 25.0 | |||
Artifact Aggro | 83 | 134–132 | 50.4 | 3 | 14 | 2 |
Affinity | 34 | 47–58 | 44.8 | 0 | 2 | |
Tempered Steel | 46 | 83–71 | 53.9 | 3 | 11 | 2 |
Mono Blue Architect | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Madness | 8 | 21–13 | 61.8 | 1 | ||
Golgari Madness | 7 | 20–13 | 60.6 | 1 | ||
Jund Madness | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Voltron | 15 | 22–36 | 37.9 | 1 | 4 | |
Hexproof | 5 | 8–12 | 40.0 | |||
Equipment Aggro | 10 | 14–24 | 36.8 | 1 | 4 | |
Slivers | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Naya Zoo | 3 | 7–5 | 58.3 | |||
Knights | 27 | 31–50 | 38.3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
AggroSlide | 35 | 85–59 | 59.0 | 0 | 9 | 2 |
Cats | 11 | 23–19 | 54.8 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Selesnya Cats | 11 | 23–19 | 54.8 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Rakdos Aggro | 31 | 22–62 | 26.2 | 0 | 4 | |
Boros Aggro | 23 | 19–31 | 38.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Humans | 7 | 0–11 | 0.0 | |||
Jeskai Humans | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Legends Aggro | 259 | 520–451 | 53.6 | 3 | 62 | 15 |
Boros Legends Aggro | 214 | 460–366 | 55.7 | 3 | 61 | 13 |
Selesnya Legends Aggro | 18 | 29–39 | 42.6 | 0 | 1 | 1 |