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 10 weeks, 4 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 688 | 1257–1139 | 52.5 | 4 | 64 | 33 |
Mono Black Aggro | 4 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |||
Heroic | 9 | 9–11 | 45.0 | |||
Mono White Heroic | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Azorius Heroic | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 1 | |||||
Boros Heroic | 6 | 7–6 | 53.8 | |||
Red Deck Wins | 115 | 225–186 | 54.7 | 0 | 17 | 7 |
Goblins | 4 | 4–10 | 28.6 | |||
Tokens | 12 | 19–22 | 46.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Selesnya Tokens | 7 | 12–13 | 48.0 | |||
Mono White Tokens | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Green Stompy | 15 | 28–30 | 48.3 | |||
White Weenie | 90 | 152–154 | 49.7 | 2 | 12 | 2 |
Odric Keywords | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Quest for the Holy Relic | 10 | 10–16 | 38.5 | |||
Soldiers | 26 | 59–45 | 56.7 | 2 | 7 | |
Mono White Humans | 49 | 79–82 | 49.1 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
Elves | 3 | 8–5 | 61.5 | |||
Selesnya Little Kid | 7 | 12–14 | 46.2 | |||
Selesnya Counters | 4 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
Zombies | 5 | 3–16 | 15.8 | |||
Gruul Aggro | 5 | 5–14 | 26.3 | |||
Merfolk | 5 | 10–7 | 58.8 | 1 | ||
Artifact Aggro | 107 | 195–194 | 50.1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
Affinity | 90 | 172–168 | 50.6 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
Hardened Scales Affinity | 84 | 161–159 | 50.3 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
Tempered Steel | 9 | 17–18 | 48.6 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono Blue Architect | 5 | 5–4 | 55.6 | 1 | ||
Mono Blue Aggro | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Madness | 3 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Golgari Madness | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Rakdos Madness | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Jund Madness | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Voltron | 32 | 46–58 | 44.2 | 1 | ||
Hexproof | 3 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |||
Equipment Aggro | 4 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
Hateful Auras | 23 | 36–36 | 50.0 | 1 | ||
Knights | 7 | 9–13 | 40.9 | |||
AggroSlide | 18 | 39–25 | 60.9 | 1 | 7 | |
Rakdos Aggro | 11 | 12–19 | 38.7 | |||
Boros Aggro | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
Humans | 132 | 273–188 | 59.2 | 1 | 16 | 11 |
Selesnya Humans | 4 | 8–6 | 57.1 | |||
Boros Humans | 40 | 94–56 | 62.7 | 1 | 7 | 4 |
Orzhov Humans | 85 | 170–123 | 58.0 | 0 | 9 | 7 |
Legends Aggro | 34 | 65–56 | 53.7 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Boros Legends Aggro | 12 | 19–17 | 52.8 | |||
Selesnya Legends Aggro | 3 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
Bard Class | 15 | 38–21 | 64.4 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Permanent Vacation | 38 | 52–54 | 49.1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Pirates | 26 | 79–38 | 67.5 | 0 | 3 | 2 |