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 |
Madness | 7 | 17–16 | 51.5 | 1 | ||
Golgari Madness | 5 | 14–11 | 56.0 | 1 |
Decks
Cards
Matchups
Archetype | Record | Win % |
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Aggro | 0–3 | 0.0 |
Heroic | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Boros Heroic | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Artifact Aggro | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Affinity | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Hardened Scales Affinity | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Legends Aggro | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Bard Class | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Combo | 3–2 | 60.0 |
Hypergenesis | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Jeskai Ascendancy | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Jeskai Jeskai Ascendancy | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Seismic Swans | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Actual Twin | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Izzet Twin | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Control | 4–3 | 57.1 |
Azorius Control | 1–1 | 50.0 |
Cloudpost Control | 1–1 | 50.0 |
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 1–1 | 50.0 |
Orzhov Control | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Prison | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Enchantress | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Aggro-Combo | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Dwarf Combo | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Aggro-Control | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Izzet Spells | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Combo-Control | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Archfiend Alteration | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Midrange | 2–2 | 50.0 |
Grenzo | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Rakdos Midrange | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Heartless Summoning Stompy | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Artifact Midrange | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Ramp | 2–1 | 66.7 |
Cloudpost Ramp | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Greenpost | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Applejacks | 1–1 | 50.0 |