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 | 1035 | 1712–1636 | 51.1 | 24 | 158 | 51 |
Mono Black Aggro | 25 | 22–30 | 42.3 | 1 | 7 | |
Heroic | 51 | 104–55 | 65.4 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Boros Heroic | 49 | 102–53 | 65.8 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
Red Deck Wins | 82 | 116–126 | 47.9 | 0 | 10 | 5 |
Goblins | 61 | 75–83 | 47.5 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
Tokens | 14 | 8–26 | 23.5 | |||
Selesnya Tokens | 7 | 8–16 | 33.3 | |||
Mono White Tokens | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Orzhov Tokens | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Green Stompy | 22 | 31–42 | 42.5 | |||
White Weenie | 96 | 167–155 | 51.9 | 1 | 12 | 6 |
Soldiers | 44 | 91–74 | 55.2 | 0 | 6 | 4 |
Kithkin | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Elves | 19 | 15–38 | 28.3 | 1 | ||
Selesnya Little Kid | 4 | 4–6 | 40.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Zombies | 13 | 12–22 | 35.3 | |||
Gruul Aggro | 27 | 36–42 | 46.2 | 0 | 2 | |
Merfolk | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Red Swarm | 3 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |||
Artifact Aggro | 67 | 91–102 | 47.2 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Affinity | 26 | 25–40 | 38.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Salvage Titan | 1 | |||||
Tempered Steel | 9 | 9–14 | 39.1 | |||
Mono Blue Architect | 21 | 40–30 | 57.1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Mono Blue Aggro | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Illusions | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Madness | 8 | 7–9 | 43.8 | |||
Golgari Madness | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
Rakdos Madness | 5 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Voltron | 32 | 61–55 | 52.6 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Equipment Aggro | 30 | 60–51 | 54.1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Hateful Auras | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Slivers | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Knights | 42 | 62–67 | 48.1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
AggroSlide | 26 | 44–50 | 46.8 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
Cats | 22 | 36–30 | 54.5 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Mono White Cats | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Selesnya Cats | 21 | 36–28 | 56.3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Rakdos Aggro | 10 | 11–15 | 42.3 | |||
Boros Aggro | 4 | 5–6 | 45.5 | 1 | 2 | |
Humans | 53 | 86–109 | 44.1 | 3 | 18 | 1 |
Selesnya Humans | 9 | 7–33 | 17.5 | |||
Boros Humans | 40 | 71–68 | 51.1 | 3 | 16 | 1 |
Mono Red Eldrazi | 33 | 71–50 | 58.7 | 0 | 7 | |
Legends Aggro | 280 | 593–433 | 57.8 | 12 | 67 | 18 |
Boros Legends Aggro | 271 | 579–421 | 57.9 | 12 | 67 | 18 |
Selesnya Legends Aggro | 5 | 9–6 | 60.0 | |||
Pirates | 8 | 12–20 | 37.5 | |||
Rats | 11 | 13–22 | 37.1 | 0 | 2 |