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, 6 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 1722 | 3478–2965 | 54.0 | 19 | 179 | 94 |
Mono Black Aggro | 50 | 79–100 | 44.1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Heroic | 86 | 142–172 | 45.2 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
Mono White Heroic | 39 | 69–85 | 44.8 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Azorius Heroic | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Boros Heroic | 8 | 5–16 | 23.8 | |||
Selesnya Heroic | 28 | 53–52 | 50.5 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Red Deck Wins | 714 | 1827–1077 | 62.9 | 13 | 103 | 68 |
Mono Red Devotion | 22 | 49–39 | 55.7 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Prisoner | 38 | 90–60 | 60.0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Proliferate Red | 67 | 192–101 | 65.5 | 1 | 6 | 9 |
Goblins | 15 | 15–27 | 35.7 | |||
Tokens | 48 | 68–86 | 44.2 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Selesnya Tokens | 17 | 24–29 | 45.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Green Stompy | 77 | 163–153 | 51.6 | 2 | 19 | 1 |
White Weenie | 98 | 183–179 | 50.6 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
Odric Keywords | 18 | 38–34 | 52.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Soldiers | 6 | 5–11 | 31.3 | |||
Kithkin | 3 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |||
Chroma White | 1 | |||||
Elves | 39 | 76–67 | 53.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Werewolves | 33 | 39–49 | 44.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Minotaurs | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
Warriors | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Selesnya Little Kid | 115 | 215–207 | 50.9 | 2 | 5 | 5 |
Rogues | 10 | 15–22 | 40.5 | |||
Zombies | 24 | 16–40 | 28.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Gruul Aggro | 41 | 74–85 | 46.5 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Merfolk | 15 | 6–39 | 13.3 | |||
Mono Red Swarm | 26 | 44–49 | 47.3 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Artifact Aggro | 130 | 232–224 | 50.9 | 1 | 16 | 4 |
Affinity | 83 | 176–148 | 54.3 | 1 | 15 | 2 |
Boros Vehicles | 6 | 5–8 | 38.5 | |||
Salvage Titan | 24 | 20–45 | 30.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Devoid Aggro | 3 | 0–8 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Blue Aggro | 7 | 10–15 | 40.0 | |||
Madness | 17 | 18–35 | 34.0 | |||
Gruul Madness | 7 | 7–17 | 29.2 | |||
Rakdos Madness | 3 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
Voltron | 85 | 145–158 | 47.9 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
Hexproof | 21 | 28–35 | 44.4 | |||
Boros Auras | 5 | 7–12 | 36.8 | |||
Equipment Aggro | 50 | 100–87 | 53.5 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
Naya Zoo | 19 | 36–36 | 50.0 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
Rakdos Aggro | 5 | 7–8 | 46.7 | |||
Boros Aggro | 9 | 9–25 | 26.5 | |||
Humans | 14 | 11–26 | 29.7 | |||
Selesnya Humans | 12 | 8–21 | 27.6 |