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 | 1107 | 2305–1876 | 55.1 | 22 | 195 | 46 |
Mono Black Aggro | 9 | 16–15 | 51.6 | |||
Heroic | 262 | 692–408 | 62.9 | 9 | 58 | 22 |
Mono White Heroic | 205 | 579–306 | 65.4 | 8 | 49 | 20 |
Azorius Heroic | 14 | 22–30 | 42.3 | 0 | 3 | |
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 39 | 90–63 | 58.8 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
Boros Heroic | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Selesnya Heroic | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Red Deck Wins | 312 | 742–501 | 59.7 | 7 | 75 | 15 |
Mono Red Devotion | 35 | 72–58 | 55.4 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
Goblins | 32 | 51–47 | 52.0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Tokens | 57 | 75–111 | 40.3 | 1 | 7 | |
Selesnya Tokens | 45 | 68–89 | 43.3 | 1 | 7 | |
Mono Green Stompy | 14 | 15–26 | 36.6 | 0 | 1 | |
White Weenie | 97 | 183–162 | 53.0 | 5 | 22 | 1 |
Odric Keywords | 35 | 71–68 | 51.1 | 2 | 14 | |
Soldiers | 47 | 87–72 | 54.7 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
Kithkin | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Elves | 12 | 19–34 | 35.8 | 0 | 3 | |
Werewolves | 8 | 5–12 | 29.4 | |||
Minotaurs | 5 | 6–12 | 33.3 | |||
Warriors | 8 | 7–13 | 35.0 | |||
Selesnya Little Kid | 22 | 43–35 | 55.1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Rogues | 14 | 26–32 | 44.8 | 0 | 4 | |
Zombies | 43 | 72–80 | 47.4 | 0 | 5 | |
Gruul Aggro | 34 | 95–55 | 63.3 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
Merfolk | 23 | 26–51 | 33.8 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono Red Swarm | 19 | 56–26 | 68.3 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Artifact Aggro | 21 | 22–36 | 37.9 | |||
Affinity | 13 | 13–23 | 36.1 | |||
Boros Vehicles | 6 | 8–13 | 38.1 | |||
Salvage Titan | 2 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Devoid Aggro | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Mono Blue Aggro | 24 | 32–45 | 41.6 | 0 | 2 | |
Madness | 13 | 27–16 | 62.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Gruul Madness | 10 | 24–14 | 63.2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Voltron | 20 | 27–42 | 39.1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Hexproof | 14 | 26–24 | 52.0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Equipment Aggro | 6 | 1–18 | 5.3 | |||
Slivers | 6 | 3–13 | 18.8 | |||
Naya Zoo | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
Boros Aggro | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Humans | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Selesnya Humans | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 |