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 12 weeks, 5 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 409 | 789–853–2 | 48.1 | 16 | 148 | |
Mono Black Aggro | 13 | 28–27 | 50.9 | 1 | 4 | |
Heroic | 25 | 46–48 | 48.9 | 1 | 11 | |
Mono White Heroic | 21 | 43–38 | 53.1 | 1 | 10 | |
Boros Heroic | 4 | 3–10 | 23.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Red Deck Wins | 101 | 178–222 | 44.5 | 3 | 32 | |
Goblins | 5 | 8–11 | 42.1 | |||
Tokens | 11 | 22–27 | 44.9 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono White Tokens | 11 | 22–27 | 44.9 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono Green Stompy | 6 | 9–16 | 36.0 | 0 | 3 | |
White Weenie | 26 | 36–58 | 38.3 | 0 | 7 | |
Quest for the Holy Relic | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Elves | 22 | 30–44–1 | 40.5 | 0 | 4 | |
Minotaurs | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Selesnya Little Kid | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
Rogues | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Zombies | 33 | 80–62 | 56.3 | 2 | 16 | |
Gruul Aggro | 15 | 26–30 | 46.4 | 0 | 8 | |
Gruul Landfall | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Merfolk | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Mono Red Swarm | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Artifact Aggro | 67 | 158–135 | 53.9 | 4 | 35 | |
Salvage Titan | 6 | 11–14 | 44.0 | 0 | 4 | |
Tempered Steel | 57 | 139–115 | 54.7 | 4 | 29 | |
Mono Blue Architect | 4 | 8–6 | 57.1 | 0 | 2 | |
Madness | 52 | 112–102 | 52.3 | 4 | 19 | |
Gruul Madness | 4 | 11–7 | 61.1 | 1 | 2 | |
Rakdos Madness | 47 | 99–93 | 51.6 | 3 | 17 | |
Voltron | 12 | 22–28–1 | 44.0 | 0 | 3 | |
Hexproof | 12 | 22–28–1 | 44.0 | 0 | 3 | |
AggroSlide | 9 | 19–18 | 51.4 | 0 | 3 | |
Cats | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Mono White Cats | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 |