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-Control | 2187 | 4142–4480–3 | 48.0 | 89 | 948 | |
Simic Flash | 42 | 78–80–1 | 49.4 | 1 | 22 | |
Simic Vat | 20 | 46–37 | 55.4 | 0 | 14 | |
Izzet Tempo | 525 | 956–1093–1 | 46.7 | 15 | 210 | |
Azorius Skies | 69 | 115–146 | 44.1 | 3 | 25 | |
Blue Madness | 91 | 166–178 | 48.3 | 5 | 42 | |
Simic Madness | 62 | 124–118 | 51.2 | 4 | 31 | |
Temur Madness | 20 | 34–40 | 45.9 | 1 | 9 | |
Grixis Madness | 5 | 4–11 | 26.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Lich Aggro-Control | 21 | 40–50 | 44.4 | 0 | 7 | |
Temur Clues | 21 | 36–43 | 45.6 | 0 | 9 | |
Wizards | 88 | 154–180 | 46.1 | 3 | 34 | |
Tetsukotog | 10 | 20–18 | 52.6 | 0 | 5 | |
12 Pest | 8 | 22–17 | 56.4 | 1 | 5 | |
Ninjas | 81 | 119–170 | 41.2 | 4 | 39 | |
Mono Blue Gush | 15 | 25–28 | 47.2 | 1 | 9 | |
Mono Blue Tempo | 483 | 982–942 | 51.0 | 26 | 218 | |
Mono Blue Faeries | 9 | 9–21 | 30.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono Blue Librarians | 61 | 153–118 | 56.5 | 8 | 35 | |
Izzet Spells | 276 | 627–567 | 52.5 | 16 | 143 | |
Dimir Tempo | 166 | 269–354 | 43.2 | 4 | 47 | |
Dimir Faeries | 14 | 27–31 | 46.6 | 0 | 4 | |
Dimir Librarians | 7 | 13–18 | 41.9 | 1 | 2 | |
Sultai Tempo | 11 | 25–20 | 55.6 | 0 | 4 | |
Ensoul Aggro-Control | 60 | 149–123 | 54.8 | 4 | 33 | |
Azorius Tempo | 61 | 135–118 | 53.4 | 5 | 37 |