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 days, 22 hours.
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 160 | 320–318 | 50.2 | 9 | 92 | |
| Mono Black Aggro | 3 | 5–8 | 38.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Heroic | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| Mono White Heroic | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Red Deck Wins | 3 | 7–7 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Goblins | 6 | 9–11 | 45.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Mono Green Stompy | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| White Weenie | 78 | 182–148 | 55.2 | 7 | 55 | |
| Soldiers | 59 | 153–114 | 57.3 | 6 | 47 | |
| Elves | 4 | 2–8 | 20.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Gruul Aggro | 5 | 9–11 | 45.0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Merfolk | 4 | 6–8 | 42.9 | 0 | 2 | |
| Mono Red Swarm | 11 | 21–25 | 45.7 | 0 | 3 | |
| Artifact Aggro | 6 | 11–13 | 45.8 | 0 | 4 | |
| Tempered Steel | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Architect | 4 | 7–8 | 46.7 | 0 | 3 | |
| Madness | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Gruul Madness | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Voltron | 5 | 10–11 | 47.6 | 0 | 3 | |
| Equipment Aggro | 5 | 10–11 | 47.6 | 0 | 3 | |
| AggroSlide | 17 | 40–28 | 58.8 | 2 | 10 | |
| Rakdos Aggro | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Humans | 3 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
| Jeskai Humans | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Boros Humans | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Legends Aggro | 9 | 9–21 | 30.0 | 0 | 3 | |
| Boros Legends Aggro | 8 | 7–17 | 29.2 | 0 | 3 | |
| Bard Class | 1 | 2–4 | 33.3 |