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. -
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. -
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 -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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 5 weeks, 2 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 640 | 992–1072 | 48.1 | 2 | 43 | 20 |
Mono Black Aggro | 18 | 25–35 | 41.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Heroic | 12 | 12–18 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono White Heroic | 4 | 3–8 | 27.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Azorius Heroic | 4 | 8–5 | 61.5 | |||
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 1 | |||||
Boros Heroic | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Red Deck Wins | 20 | 20–29 | 40.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Red Devotion | 2 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Goblins | 8 | 11–12 | 47.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Tokens | 11 | 15–25 | 37.5 | |||
Selesnya Tokens | 2 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
Mono White Tokens | 4 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |||
Mono Green Stompy | 5 | 10–11 | 47.6 | |||
White Weenie | 140 | 254–223 | 53.2 | 2 | 19 | 5 |
Quest for the Holy Relic | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Soldiers | 54 | 103–85 | 54.8 | 0 | 10 | |
Elves | 38 | 36–85 | 29.8 | 1 | ||
Selesnya Little Kid | 7 | 7–17 | 29.2 | |||
Zombies | 10 | 12–14 | 46.2 | |||
Gruul Aggro | 52 | 91–79 | 53.5 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Merfolk | 16 | 19–25 | 43.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Red Swarm | 44 | 69–74 | 48.3 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Artifact Aggro | 24 | 30–41 | 42.3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Affinity | 7 | 13–14 | 48.1 | 1 | ||
Tempered Steel | 4 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
Mono Blue Architect | 6 | 4–10 | 28.6 | |||
Mono Blue Aggro | 10 | 14–18 | 43.8 | |||
Illusions | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Madness | 21 | 38–44 | 46.3 | 1 | ||
Gruul Madness | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Golgari Madness | 17 | 38–32 | 54.3 | 1 | ||
Rakdos Madness | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Voltron | 29 | 37–46 | 44.6 | 0 | 3 | |
Equipment Aggro | 29 | 37–46 | 44.6 | 0 | 3 | |
Slivers | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Naya Zoo | 4 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |||
Knights | 6 | 12–9 | 57.1 | |||
AggroSlide | 39 | 70–56 | 55.6 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
Rakdos Aggro | 10 | 17–19 | 47.2 | |||
Humans | 47 | 80–78 | 50.6 | 1 | ||
Selesnya Humans | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Jeskai Humans | 14 | 30–20 | 60.0 | 1 | ||
Boros Humans | 8 | 14–15 | 48.3 | |||
Shamans | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Legends Aggro | 60 | 103–93 | 52.6 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Boros Legends Aggro | 35 | 52–52 | 50.0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Selesnya Legends Aggro | 3 | 7–8 | 46.7 | |||
Bard Class | 17 | 33–27 | 55.0 |