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 | 1465 | 2704–2429 | 52.7 | 24 | 233 | 72 |
Mono Black Aggro | 2 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
Heroic | 48 | 101–62 | 62.0 | 2 | 7 | 8 |
Mono White Heroic | 2 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
Azorius Heroic | 2 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Boros Heroic | 42 | 99–46 | 68.3 | 2 | 7 | 8 |
Red Deck Wins | 261 | 533–420 | 55.9 | 2 | 55 | 18 |
Goblins | 13 | 16–30 | 34.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Tokens | 21 | 30–39 | 43.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Selesnya Tokens | 11 | 17–18 | 48.6 | |||
Mono White Tokens | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Orzhov Tokens | 5 | 7–10 | 41.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Green Stompy | 47 | 65–82 | 44.2 | 0 | 2 | |
White Weenie | 175 | 333–296 | 52.9 | 8 | 42 | 7 |
Odric Keywords | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Quest for the Holy Relic | 14 | 10–24 | 29.4 | |||
Soldiers | 77 | 174–141 | 55.2 | 6 | 33 | 2 |
Mono White Humans | 72 | 135–113 | 54.4 | 1 | 7 | 5 |
Elves | 9 | 15–21 | 41.7 | |||
Werewolves | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Selesnya Little Kid | 17 | 28–33 | 45.9 | |||
Selesnya Counters | 7 | 8–13 | 38.1 | |||
Zombies | 13 | 8–31 | 20.5 | |||
Gruul Aggro | 12 | 17–26 | 39.5 | |||
Merfolk | 11 | 14–22 | 38.9 | 1 | ||
Artifact Aggro | 224 | 388–396 | 49.5 | 4 | 33 | 7 |
Affinity | 193 | 337–339 | 49.9 | 4 | 28 | 5 |
Hardened Scales Affinity | 186 | 327–329 | 49.8 | 4 | 28 | 5 |
Tempered Steel | 9 | 17–18 | 48.6 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono Blue Architect | 19 | 31–34 | 47.7 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Mono Blue Aggro | 6 | 2–8 | 20.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Illusions | 4 | 1–7 | 12.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Madness | 4 | 1–11 | 8.3 | |||
Golgari Madness | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Rakdos Madness | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Jund Madness | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Voltron | 64 | 93–106 | 46.7 | 1 | 7 | 3 |
Hexproof | 3 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |||
Equipment Aggro | 10 | 9–20 | 31.0 | |||
Hateful Auras | 49 | 76–72 | 51.4 | 1 | 7 | 3 |
Slivers | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Naya Zoo | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Knights | 7 | 9–13 | 40.9 | |||
AggroSlide | 34 | 54–53 | 50.5 | 1 | 13 | |
Cats | 2 | 7–4 | 63.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Selesnya Cats | 2 | 7–4 | 63.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Rakdos Aggro | 14 | 19–25 | 43.2 | |||
Boros Aggro | 8 | 14–15 | 48.3 | 1 | ||
Humans | 238 | 516–336 | 60.6 | 5 | 43 | 17 |
Selesnya Humans | 6 | 12–8 | 60.0 | |||
Boros Humans | 122 | 288–165 | 63.6 | 4 | 30 | 10 |
Orzhov Humans | 106 | 214–158 | 57.5 | 1 | 13 | 7 |
Legends Aggro | 82 | 158–135 | 53.9 | 0 | 7 | 5 |
Boros Legends Aggro | 28 | 57–43 | 57.0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Selesnya Legends Aggro | 4 | 7–10 | 41.2 | |||
Bard Class | 43 | 84–66 | 56.0 | 0 | 6 | 3 |
Permanent Vacation | 50 | 71–73 | 49.3 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Pirates | 71 | 177–119 | 59.8 | 1 | 11 | 3 |
Rats | 23 | 27–48 | 36.0 | 0 | 6 |