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 12 weeks, 5 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 3022 | 5813–4844 | 54.5 | 39 | 244 | 141 |
Mono Black Aggro | 24 | 29–31 | 48.3 | |||
Heroic | 313 | 644–501 | 56.2 | 1 | 27 | 23 |
Mono White Heroic | 206 | 467–330 | 58.6 | 1 | 22 | 18 |
Azorius Heroic | 26 | 46–52 | 46.9 | 1 | ||
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 58 | 114–76 | 60.0 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Boros Heroic | 7 | 5–11 | 31.3 | |||
Selesnya Heroic | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Red Deck Wins | 461 | 1061–710 | 59.9 | 8 | 49 | 25 |
Mono Red Devotion | 9 | 14–18 | 43.8 | 0 | 2 | |
Goblins | 136 | 184–238 | 43.6 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
Tokens | 93 | 128–151 | 45.9 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
Selesnya Tokens | 6 | 5–13 | 27.8 | |||
Mono White Tokens | 70 | 120–116 | 50.8 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
Orzhov Tokens | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Green Stompy | 100 | 196–165 | 54.3 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
White Weenie | 263 | 491–383 | 56.2 | 1 | 22 | 14 |
Quest for the Holy Relic | 40 | 49–53 | 48.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Soldiers | 49 | 65–88 | 42.5 | 0 | 4 | |
Chroma White | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Elves | 221 | 375–389 | 49.1 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
Werewolves | 4 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Minotaurs | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Selesnya Little Kid | 71 | 110–129 | 46.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Selesnya Counters | 49 | 88–90 | 49.4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Rogues | 10 | 16–22 | 42.1 | 0 | 2 | |
Zombies | 371 | 794–574 | 58.0 | 6 | 48 | 21 |
Gruul Aggro | 63 | 95–117 | 44.8 | 1 | ||
Merfolk | 10 | 7–14 | 33.3 | |||
Mono Red Swarm | 55 | 70–88 | 44.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Artifact Aggro | 140 | 214–221 | 49.2 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
Affinity | 11 | 4–18 | 18.2 | |||
Salvage Titan | 14 | 8–33 | 19.5 | |||
Tempered Steel | 108 | 199–159 | 55.6 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
Mono Blue Architect | 4 | 0–8 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Blue Aggro | 1 | |||||
Madness | 23 | 18–42 | 30.0 | |||
Gruul Madness | 2 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
Golgari Madness | 9 | 8–18 | 30.8 | |||
Rakdos Madness | 7 | 8–13 | 38.1 | |||
Jund Madness | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Voltron | 51 | 81–108 | 42.9 | 1 | 4 | |
Hexproof | 19 | 40–40 | 50.0 | 1 | 3 | |
Boros Auras | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Equipment Aggro | 9 | 13–15 | 46.4 | |||
Hateful Auras | 12 | 17–28 | 37.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Slivers | 4 | 2–9 | 18.2 | |||
Naya Zoo | 7 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
Knights | 190 | 434–288 | 60.1 | 0 | 10 | 16 |
AggroSlide | 297 | 702–453 | 60.8 | 18 | 61 | 12 |
Cats | 27 | 43–35 | 55.1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Mono White Cats | 19 | 25–22 | 53.2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Selesnya Cats | 3 | 6–5 | 54.5 | |||
Rakdos Aggro | 7 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |||
Boros Aggro | 12 | 21–26 | 44.7 | 0 | 2 | |
Humans | 7 | 9–10 | 47.4 | |||
Selesnya Humans | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Pirates | 4 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Rats | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 |