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 2 weeks, 2 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 50086 | 93530–83817–65 | 52.7 | 730 | 5731 | 2358 |
Artifact Aggro | 6301 | 11736–10379 | 53.1 | 99 | 681 | 289 |
Affinity | 3156 | 5775–5269 | 52.3 | 50 | 337 | 136 |
Hush-finity | 46 | 93–76 | 55.0 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Hardened Scales Affinity | 282 | 510–460 | 52.6 | 4 | 32 | 11 |
Boros Vehicles | 93 | 126–186 | 40.4 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Salvage Titan | 324 | 361–626 | 36.6 | 0 | 11 | 6 |
Tempered Steel | 2086 | 4337–3268 | 57.0 | 46 | 304 | 111 |
Mono Blue Architect | 463 | 854–721 | 54.2 | 3 | 24 | 27 |