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, 4 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 612 | 1060–1013 | 51.1 | 8 | 83 | 23 |
Mono Black Aggro | 13 | 19–16 | 54.3 | |||
Heroic | 48 | 85–82 | 50.9 | 0 | 11 | 1 |
Mono White Heroic | 22 | 43–32 | 57.3 | 0 | 4 | |
Boros Heroic | 5 | 13–8 | 61.9 | |||
Selesnya Heroic | 19 | 26–39 | 40.0 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
Red Deck Wins | 64 | 107–94 | 53.2 | 0 | 7 | 2 |
Prisoner | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Goblins | 5 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |||
Tokens | 3 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Selesnya Tokens | 3 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Green Stompy | 140 | 265–249 | 51.6 | 1 | 22 | 7 |
White Weenie | 89 | 223–134 | 62.5 | 5 | 26 | 4 |
Quest for the Holy Relic | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Soldiers | 14 | 36–24 | 60.0 | 1 | 8 | |
Mono White Humans | 70 | 183–102 | 64.2 | 4 | 18 | 4 |
Elves | 33 | 53–64 | 45.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Werewolves | 6 | 8–14 | 36.4 | |||
Selesnya Little Kid | 16 | 20–39 | 33.9 | |||
Rogues | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Zombies | 4 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |||
Gruul Aggro | 7 | 7–14 | 33.3 | |||
Gruul Landfall | 3 | 3–9 | 25.0 | |||
Merfolk | 6 | 10–13 | 43.5 | |||
Mono Red Swarm | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Artifact Aggro | 15 | 21–22 | 48.8 | |||
Affinity | 7 | 10–10 | 50.0 | |||
Tempered Steel | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Mono Blue Architect | 4 | 10–5 | 66.7 | |||
Devastating Dreams | 8 | 10–16 | 38.5 | |||
Voltron | 10 | 8–15 | 34.8 | |||
Hexproof | 4 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |||
Equipment Aggro | 2 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Knights | 4 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
Rakdos Aggro | 6 | 1–9 | 10.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Boros Aggro | 9 | 5–13 | 27.8 | |||
Humans | 25 | 48–49 | 49.5 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
Selesnya Humans | 12 | 29–16 | 64.4 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Boros Humans | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Orzhov Humans | 8 | 11–23 | 32.4 | |||
Legends Aggro | 72 | 132–100 | 56.9 | 2 | 9 | 7 |
Boros Legends Aggro | 62 | 115–78 | 59.6 | 1 | 8 | 7 |
Selesnya Legends Aggro | 4 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Bard Class | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Permanent Vacation | 5 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
Pirates | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Rats | 10 | 11–13 | 45.8 | 0 | 1 |