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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.
Which cards are legal?

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.
How do I enter the league?

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.

Current League
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How do I enter a tournament?

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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What happens if a card goes above 2¢? How does rotation work? When is the next rotation? How long are cards legal for?

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 1 week, 2 days.

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The Penny Dreadful 500 is on Apr 20th with free entry and $500 in prizes!

Archetype Tree

Archetype	# Decks	Record	Win %	①	⑧
Aggro	240	450–371–23	54.8	13	92
Red Deck Wins	133	330–219–19	60.1	12	72
Mono Red Devotion	26	59–36–4	62.1	0	11
Proliferate Red	3	6–6	50.0	0	1

Decks

Cards

Matchups

Archetype	Record	Win %
Aggro	116–98–5	54.2
Heroic	7–8–1	46.7
Mono White Heroic	5–7–1	41.7
Azorius Heroic	2–1	66.7
Red Deck Wins	82–82–4	50.0
Mono Red Devotion	16–16	50.0
Proliferate Red	1–0	100.0
Goblins	2–0	100.0
Tokens	1–0	100.0
Selesnya Tokens	1–0	100.0
Mono Green Stompy	0–2	0.0
White Weenie	9–3	75.0
Odric Keywords	2–0	100.0
Elves	1–0	100.0
Selesnya Little Kid	3–1	75.0
Rogues	3–0	100.0
Artifact Aggro	2–2	50.0
Affinity	2–2	50.0
Voltron	1–0	100.0
Hexproof	1–0	100.0
Slivers	1–0	100.0
Combo	40–20–1	66.7
Storm	25–9	73.5
Sultai Tendrils	1–0	100.0
Dimir Tendrils	23–9	71.9
Dragonstorm	1–0	100.0
Reanimator	6–7–1	46.2
Traditional Reanimator	6–7–1	46.2
Oriss Genesis	4–2	66.7
Control	75–34–5	68.8
Mono Black Control	3–1	75.0
Demonic Rising	16–13–4	55.2
Dimir Control	7–4	63.6
Azorius Control	21–1	95.5
Izzet Control	3–2	60.0
Mardu Control	1–2–1	33.3
Boros Control	2–1	66.7
Grixis Control	3–0	100.0
Stax	1–1	50.0
Jeskai Control	5–2	71.4
Dragon Control	2–6	25.0
UBRG Dragons	2–6	25.0
Ponza	2–0	100.0
Cycling Control	8–1	88.9
Astral Slide	8–1	88.9
Aggro-Combo	13–7–1	65.0
Aristocrats	5–6–1	45.5
Golgari Aristocrats	3–6–1	33.3
Abzan Aristocrats	1–0	100.0
Mardu Aristocrats	1–0	100.0
Burn	5–0	100.0
Infect	2–0	100.0
Aggro-Control	8–6	57.1
Simic Flash	3–4	42.9
Izzet Tempo	1–0	100.0
Combo-Control	13–4	76.5
Battle of Wits	1–0	100.0
Pickles	4–0	100.0
Curious Niv-Mizzet	4–0	100.0
Mass Land Destruction	1–4	20.0
Wildfire	1–4	20.0
Midrange	59–50–7	54.1
The Rock	1–0	100.0
Angels and Taxes	8–9–1	47.1
Grenzo	7–4–2	63.6
Abzan Midrange	9–17	34.6
Selesnya Midrange	2–6–1	25.0
Blink	1–1	50.0
Wave Blink	1–1	50.0
Azorius Wave	1–1	50.0
Graveyard Value	7–2–1	77.8
Allies	2–0–1	100.0
Orzhov Allies	2–0–1	100.0
Vampires	12–7	63.2
Mono Black Vampires	12–7	63.2
Rakdos Midrange	0–1	0.0
Mono Black Midrange	1–2–1	33.3
Orzhov Midrange	4–0	100.0
Ramp	5–0	100.0
Cloudpost Ramp	4–0	100.0
Eldrazipost	4–0	100.0
Unclassified	1–0	100.0