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, 3 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro-Combo | 2670 | 5565–5355–4 | 51.0 | 203 | 1325 | |
Aristocrats | 760 | 1645–1495–3 | 52.4 | 64 | 395 | |
Mono Black Aristocrats | 172 | 441–314–1 | 58.4 | 23 | 105 | |
Orzhov Aristocrats | 133 | 279–274 | 50.5 | 10 | 58 | |
Golgari Aristocrats | 58 | 118–109–2 | 52.0 | 3 | 26 | |
Abzan Aristocrats | 37 | 72–82 | 46.8 | 1 | 18 | |
Mardu Aristocrats | 11 | 25–23 | 52.1 | 0 | 6 | |
Food | 71 | 148–141 | 51.2 | 5 | 34 | |
Rakdos Aristocrats | 236 | 490–465 | 51.3 | 21 | 129 | |
Boros Bombardment | 22 | 44–41 | 51.8 | 1 | 12 | |
Burn | 420 | 785–854 | 47.9 | 19 | 190 | |
Necro Burn | 7 | 13–14 | 48.1 | 1 | 6 | |
Infect | 356 | 631–747 | 45.8 | 16 | 141 | |
Simic Infect | 140 | 260–287 | 47.5 | 7 | 58 | |
Blazing Shoal Infect | 76 | 142–155 | 47.8 | 2 | 29 | |
Golgari Infect | 53 | 141–98 | 59.0 | 7 | 33 | |
Mono Black Infect | 11 | 17–28 | 37.8 | 0 | 4 | |
Turbo Myth | 5 | 8–10 | 44.4 | 0 | 2 | |
Pummeler | 27 | 27–59 | 31.4 | 1 | 3 | |
Hermit Humans | 15 | 24–26 | 48.0 | 1 | 8 | |
Trickbind Dreadnought | 596 | 1395–1131 | 55.2 | 68 | 357 | |
Izzet Dreadnought | 66 | 133–131 | 50.4 | 6 | 38 | |
Mono Blue Dreadnought | 489 | 1206–903 | 57.2 | 62 | 309 | |
Izzet Blitzkrieg | 73 | 139–162 | 46.2 | 0 | 27 | |
Chancellor of the Forge Combo | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Hushnought | 173 | 423–341–1 | 55.4 | 22 | 95 | |
Liquimetal Fishing | 17 | 25–41 | 37.9 | 0 | 6 | |
Combo Goblins | 182 | 399–384 | 51.0 | 10 | 87 | |
Goblin Persist | 131 | 285–277 | 50.7 | 5 | 58 | |
Dirty Kitty | 51 | 114–107 | 51.6 | 5 | 29 | |
Dwarf Combo | 5 | 6–9 | 40.0 | 1 | 3 |