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 3 weeks, 5 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro-Combo | 1548 | 3139–2418 | 56.5 | 38 | 190 | 103 |
Aristocrats | 166 | 275–288 | 48.8 | 2 | 16 | 7 |
Mono Black Aristocrats | 3 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |||
Orzhov Aristocrats | 14 | 17–31 | 35.4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Golgari Aristocrats | 10 | 3–15 | 16.7 | |||
Abzan Aristocrats | 9 | 5–24 | 17.2 | |||
Mardu Aristocrats | 12 | 25–21 | 54.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Food | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Rakdos Aristocrats | 82 | 157–134 | 54.0 | 1 | 9 | 4 |
Boros Bombardment | 30 | 59–44 | 57.3 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
Burn | 248 | 400–400 | 50.0 | 6 | 26 | 9 |
Infect | 134 | 218–228 | 48.9 | 1 | 6 | 3 |
Simic Infect | 45 | 82–75 | 52.2 | 1 | 3 | |
Blazing Shoal Infect | 65 | 104–98 | 51.5 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Mono Black Infect | 10 | 16–24 | 40.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Trickbind Dreadnought | 755 | 1787–1071 | 62.5 | 27 | 127 | 71 |
Izzet Dreadnought | 24 | 53–38 | 58.2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Mono Blue Dreadnought | 690 | 1652–983 | 62.7 | 27 | 124 | 64 |
Izzet Blitzkrieg | 11 | 7–21 | 25.0 | |||
Hushnought | 97 | 193–170 | 53.2 | 1 | 7 | 5 |
Liquimetal Fishing | 45 | 61–84 | 42.1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Combo Goblins | 89 | 196–148 | 57.0 | 1 | 7 | 7 |
Goblin Persist | 85 | 194–145 | 57.2 | 1 | 7 | 7 |
Dirty Kitty | 3 | 2–2 | 50.0 |