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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 418 | 861–819 | 51.3 | 24 | 179 | |
| Mono Black Aggro | 7 | 9–17 | 34.6 | 0 | 3 | |
| Heroic | 17 | 36–35 | 50.7 | 1 | 6 | |
| Mono White Heroic | 13 | 28–26 | 51.9 | 1 | 5 | |
| Azorius Heroic | 4 | 8–9 | 47.1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Red Deck Wins | 105 | 232–185 | 55.6 | 7 | 56 | |
| Mono Red Devotion | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Proliferate Red | 5 | 19–7 | 73.1 | 2 | 5 | |
| Goblins | 38 | 93–73 | 56.0 | 2 | 17 | |
| Tokens | 29 | 49–58 | 45.8 | 1 | 9 | |
| Selesnya Tokens | 17 | 34–30 | 53.1 | 1 | 5 | |
| Mardu Tokens | 5 | 6–11 | 35.3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Orzhov Tokens | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Mono Green Stompy | 8 | 12–14 | 46.2 | 0 | 3 | |
| White Weenie | 35 | 47–82 | 36.4 | 0 | 10 | |
| Odric Keywords | 12 | 19–30 | 38.8 | 0 | 5 | |
| Soldiers | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
| Kithkin | 7 | 7–17 | 29.2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Elves | 11 | 18–19 | 48.6 | 0 | 3 | |
| Zombies | 99 | 256–182 | 58.4 | 12 | 51 | |
| Gruul Aggro | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Red Swarm | 9 | 28–17 | 62.2 | 1 | 6 | |
| Artifact Aggro | 14 | 13–33 | 28.3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Affinity | 9 | 8–20 | 28.6 | |||
| Boros Vehicles | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
| Devoid Aggro | 4 | 10–7 | 58.8 | 0 | 3 | |
| Mono Blue Aggro | 13 | 25–28 | 47.2 | 0 | 5 | |
| Madness | 11 | 14–25 | 35.9 | 0 | 2 | |
| Gruul Madness | 7 | 8–16 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Golgari Madness | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Rakdos Madness | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
| Voltron | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Hexproof | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Boros Aggro | 3 | 3–6 | 33.3 | 0 | 2 | |
| Pirates | 5 | 7–13 | 35.0 |