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, 3 days.
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 863 | 1596–1339 | 54.4 | 14 | 93 | 59 |
Mono Black Aggro | 49 | 73–82 | 47.1 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Heroic | 73 | 150–109 | 57.9 | 2 | 12 | 6 |
Mono White Heroic | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
Azorius Heroic | 21 | 30–36 | 45.5 | 1 | 6 | |
Boros Heroic | 46 | 111–58 | 65.7 | 1 | 6 | 6 |
Selesnya Heroic | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Red Deck Wins | 265 | 631–350 | 64.3 | 8 | 42 | 31 |
Goblins | 5 | 5–12 | 29.4 | |||
Tokens | 34 | 44–50 | 46.8 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Selesnya Tokens | 8 | 7–16 | 30.4 | |||
Mono White Tokens | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Orzhov Tokens | 24 | 37–30 | 55.2 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Mono Green Stompy | 33 | 61–69 | 46.9 | 1 | 7 | |
White Weenie | 36 | 41–67 | 38.0 | 1 | ||
Quest for the Holy Relic | 19 | 23–36 | 39.0 | 1 | ||
Soldiers | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Chroma White | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Elves | 16 | 17–33 | 34.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Werewolves | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Selesnya Little Kid | 4 | 7–9 | 43.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Rogues | 18 | 39–23 | 62.9 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Zombies | 4 | 7–9 | 43.8 | |||
Gruul Aggro | 21 | 35–49 | 41.7 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Gruul Landfall | 3 | 4–11 | 26.7 | |||
Artifact Aggro | 125 | 206–173 | 54.4 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
Affinity | 114 | 195–158 | 55.2 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
Hardened Scales Affinity | 96 | 183–131 | 58.3 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
Salvage Titan | 3 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
Tempered Steel | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Blue Architect | 6 | 7–9 | 43.8 | |||
Mono Blue Aggro | 4 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
Illusions | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Madness | 7 | 17–16 | 51.5 | 1 | ||
Golgari Madness | 5 | 14–11 | 56.0 | 1 | ||
Jund Madness | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
Voltron | 20 | 25–35 | 41.7 | 0 | 2 | |
Equipment Aggro | 17 | 23–30 | 43.4 | 0 | 2 | |
Hateful Auras | 3 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Naya Zoo | 7 | 12–14 | 46.2 | |||
Knights | 28 | 47–49 | 49.0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
AggroSlide | 39 | 88–67 | 56.8 | 2 | 10 | |
Cats | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Selesnya Cats | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Rakdos Aggro | 23 | 31–42 | 42.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Boros Aggro | 5 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
Humans | 4 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
Orzhov Humans | 4 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
Legends Aggro | 19 | 36–33 | 52.2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Bard Class | 18 | 36–31 | 53.7 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Permanent Vacation | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Rats | 14 | 11–18 | 37.9 |