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 3 weeks, 6 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 759 | 1189–1252 | 48.7 | 5 | 53 | 26 |
Mono Black Aggro | 19 | 25–36 | 41.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Heroic | 19 | 22–26 | 45.8 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Mono White Heroic | 4 | 3–8 | 27.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Azorius Heroic | 7 | 11–8 | 57.9 | |||
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Boros Heroic | 6 | 6–7 | 46.2 | 1 | ||
Red Deck Wins | 21 | 20–31 | 39.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Red Devotion | 2 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Goblins | 9 | 12–16 | 42.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Tokens | 14 | 15–29 | 34.1 | |||
Selesnya Tokens | 6 | 5–12 | 29.4 | |||
Mono White Tokens | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
Mono Green Stompy | 5 | 10–11 | 47.6 | |||
White Weenie | 175 | 324–270 | 54.5 | 4 | 25 | 6 |
Quest for the Holy Relic | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Soldiers | 86 | 173–125 | 58.1 | 3 | 17 | 1 |
Elves | 39 | 37–87 | 29.8 | 1 | ||
Selesnya Little Kid | 11 | 10–27 | 27.0 | |||
Zombies | 9 | 12–13 | 48.0 | |||
Gruul Aggro | 54 | 102–82 | 55.4 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Merfolk | 19 | 27–28 | 49.1 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono Red Swarm | 50 | 74–85 | 46.5 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Artifact Aggro | 39 | 44–60 | 42.3 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Affinity | 11 | 15–19 | 44.1 | 1 | ||
Tempered Steel | 5 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Blue Architect | 16 | 19–23 | 45.2 | 1 | ||
Mono Blue Aggro | 10 | 14–18 | 43.8 | |||
Illusions | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Madness | 24 | 45–51 | 46.9 | 1 | ||
Gruul Madness | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Golgari Madness | 20 | 45–39 | 53.6 | 1 | ||
Rakdos Madness | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Voltron | 43 | 60–66 | 47.6 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Hexproof | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Equipment Aggro | 37 | 44–56 | 44.0 | 0 | 3 | |
Hateful Auras | 5 | 14–8 | 63.6 | 1 | ||
Slivers | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Naya Zoo | 4 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |||
Knights | 9 | 15–17 | 46.9 | |||
AggroSlide | 48 | 88–70 | 55.7 | 1 | 6 | 3 |
Rakdos Aggro | 8 | 14–16 | 46.7 | |||
Humans | 46 | 81–77 | 51.3 | 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 | 66 | 114–105 | 52.1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Boros Legends Aggro | 39 | 55–58 | 48.7 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Selesnya Legends Aggro | 3 | 7–8 | 46.7 | |||
Bard Class | 18 | 39–31 | 55.7 |