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 | 334 | 714–645–1 | 52.5 | 30 | 171 | |
Mono Black Aggro | 14 | 27–25–1 | 51.9 | 2 | 5 | |
Heroic | 9 | 13–18 | 41.9 | 0 | 4 | |
Mono White Heroic | 4 | 4–6 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Azorius Heroic | 4 | 8–9 | 47.1 | 0 | 2 | |
Boros Heroic | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Red Deck Wins | 104 | 274–189 | 59.2 | 16 | 61 | |
Mono Red Devotion | 23 | 54–44 | 55.1 | 2 | 9 | |
Goblins | 31 | 92–56 | 62.2 | 8 | 23 | |
Tokens | 35 | 63–77 | 45.0 | 0 | 16 | |
Selesnya Tokens | 30 | 56–65 | 46.3 | 0 | 13 | |
Mono Green Stompy | 6 | 13–15 | 46.4 | 0 | 4 | |
White Weenie | 22 | 34–42 | 44.7 | 1 | 7 | |
Odric Keywords | 10 | 17–22 | 43.6 | 1 | 4 | |
Soldiers | 2 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Kithkin | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Minotaurs | 3 | 5–7 | 41.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Selesnya Little Kid | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Rogues | 4 | 11–9 | 55.0 | 0 | 3 | |
Zombies | 19 | 39–30 | 56.5 | 1 | 10 | |
Gruul Aggro | 4 | 7–9 | 43.8 | 0 | 3 | |
Merfolk | 9 | 14–18 | 43.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Artifact Aggro | 19 | 19–38 | 33.3 | 0 | 5 | |
Affinity | 4 | 2–10 | 16.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Boros Vehicles | 4 | 2–10 | 16.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Salvage Titan | 8 | 7–12 | 36.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Blue Aggro | 5 | 6–12 | 33.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Devastating Dreams | 21 | 61–36 | 62.9 | 2 | 16 | |
Madness | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Gruul Madness | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Voltron | 15 | 21–32 | 39.6 | 0 | 5 | |
Boros Auras | 8 | 12–17 | 41.4 | 0 | 2 | |
Equipment Aggro | 3 | 3–6 | 33.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Humans | 1 | 3–3 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Selesnya Humans | 1 | 3–3 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 |