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 7 weeks, 3 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 969 | 1766–1598 | 52.5 | 7 | 107 | 48 |
Mono Black Aggro | 14 | 16–27 | 37.2 | 0 | 2 | |
Heroic | 9 | 9–11 | 45.0 | |||
Mono White Heroic | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Azorius Heroic | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 1 | |||||
Boros Heroic | 6 | 7–6 | 53.8 | |||
Red Deck Wins | 176 | 378–272 | 58.2 | 1 | 25 | 14 |
Goblins | 8 | 6–21 | 22.2 | |||
Tokens | 18 | 27–34 | 44.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Selesnya Tokens | 10 | 16–17 | 48.5 | |||
Mono White Tokens | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Mono Green Stompy | 29 | 46–52 | 46.9 | |||
White Weenie | 113 | 196–191 | 50.6 | 3 | 16 | 4 |
Odric Keywords | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Quest for the Holy Relic | 14 | 10–24 | 29.4 | |||
Soldiers | 39 | 90–67 | 57.3 | 2 | 10 | 2 |
Mono White Humans | 52 | 85–86 | 49.7 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
Elves | 5 | 11–12 | 47.8 | |||
Werewolves | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Selesnya Little Kid | 8 | 12–17 | 41.4 | |||
Selesnya Counters | 4 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
Zombies | 12 | 8–29 | 21.6 | |||
Gruul Aggro | 7 | 9–16 | 36.0 | |||
Merfolk | 7 | 10–12 | 45.5 | 1 | ||
Artifact Aggro | 140 | 247–256 | 49.1 | 0 | 12 | 5 |
Affinity | 115 | 205–211 | 49.3 | 0 | 7 | 4 |
Hardened Scales Affinity | 109 | 196–202 | 49.2 | 0 | 7 | 4 |
Tempered Steel | 9 | 17–18 | 48.6 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono Blue Architect | 13 | 22–22 | 50.0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Mono Blue Aggro | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Illusions | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Madness | 3 | 1–10 | 9.1 | |||
Golgari Madness | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Rakdos Madness | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Jund Madness | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Voltron | 44 | 66–77 | 46.2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Hexproof | 3 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |||
Equipment Aggro | 9 | 7–17 | 29.2 | |||
Hateful Auras | 30 | 51–46 | 52.6 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Naya Zoo | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Knights | 7 | 9–13 | 40.9 | |||
AggroSlide | 30 | 51–47 | 52.0 | 1 | 11 | |
Cats | 2 | 7–4 | 63.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Selesnya Cats | 2 | 7–4 | 63.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Rakdos Aggro | 12 | 14–22 | 38.9 | |||
Boros Aggro | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
Humans | 167 | 350–231 | 60.2 | 2 | 25 | 15 |
Selesnya Humans | 5 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
Boros Humans | 66 | 158–83 | 65.6 | 2 | 13 | 8 |
Orzhov Humans | 93 | 183–138 | 57.0 | 0 | 12 | 7 |
Legends Aggro | 56 | 106–90 | 54.1 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
Boros Legends Aggro | 12 | 19–17 | 52.8 | |||
Selesnya Legends Aggro | 3 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
Bard Class | 35 | 73–51 | 58.9 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
Permanent Vacation | 39 | 54–54 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Pirates | 51 | 125–81 | 60.7 | 0 | 6 | 3 |