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-Combo | 13531 | 24859–22794–4 | 52.2 | 188 | 1234 | 640 |
Aristocrats | 3972 | 7330–6681–3 | 52.3 | 51 | 315 | 193 |
Mono Black Aristocrats | 912 | 1851–1399–1 | 57.0 | 23 | 100 | 55 |
Orzhov Aristocrats | 849 | 1642–1454 | 53.0 | 10 | 58 | 52 |
Golgari Aristocrats | 381 | 680–674–2 | 50.2 | 3 | 26 | 18 |
Abzan Aristocrats | 266 | 386–478 | 44.7 | 1 | 18 | 4 |
Mardu Aristocrats | 93 | 147–183 | 44.5 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
Food | 531 | 857–963 | 47.1 | 5 | 36 | 15 |
Rakdos Aristocrats | 556 | 1096–894 | 55.1 | 8 | 52 | 26 |
Boros Bombardment | 165 | 340–243 | 58.3 | 1 | 12 | 9 |
Burn | 1798 | 2838–3147 | 47.4 | 18 | 183 | 53 |
Necro Burn | 44 | 54–87 | 38.3 | 1 | 6 | |
Infect | 2135 | 3475–3841 | 47.5 | 16 | 140 | 70 |
Simic Infect | 839 | 1557–1435 | 52.0 | 7 | 58 | 44 |
Blazing Shoal Infect | 630 | 1020–1128 | 47.5 | 2 | 29 | 16 |
Golgari Infect | 107 | 256–175 | 59.4 | 7 | 30 | 4 |
Turbo Myth | 23 | 32–44 | 42.1 | 0 | 2 | |
Pummeler | 191 | 297–354 | 45.6 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
Hermit Humans | 67 | 109–114 | 48.9 | 1 | 8 | |
Trickbind Dreadnought | 2446 | 5244–3670 | 58.8 | 68 | 357 | 176 |
Izzet Dreadnought | 247 | 548–406 | 57.4 | 6 | 38 | 20 |
Mono Blue Dreadnought | 1898 | 4233–2759 | 60.5 | 62 | 309 | 146 |
Izzet Blitzkrieg | 505 | 902–900 | 50.1 | 0 | 27 | 20 |
Chancellor of the Forge Combo | 47 | 71–96 | 42.5 | 1 | ||
Hushnought | 837 | 1797–1347–1 | 57.2 | 22 | 95 | 59 |
Liquimetal Fishing | 288 | 382–519 | 42.4 | 0 | 6 | 7 |
Combo Goblins | 1004 | 2098–1703 | 55.2 | 10 | 87 | 53 |
Goblin Persist | 665 | 1427–1105 | 56.4 | 5 | 58 | 37 |
Dirty Kitty | 332 | 666–590 | 53.0 | 5 | 29 | 16 |