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 7 weeks.
Recent Top League Decks
| ⇅ | Colors | Name | Person | Record | OMW | Date |
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| ★★ | Mean Girls | miss_input | 5–0 | 9% | 3 hours ago | |
| ★★ | High Tide | pascal3000 | 5–0 | 33% | 11 hours ago |
Latest Tournament Top 8
| ⇅ | Colors | Name | Person | Record | Top 8 | Date |
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| ★★★ | Humans | mdog | 6–0 | ① | 2 days ago | |
| ★★ | Spiritdancing | bakert99 | 4–2 | ② | 2 days ago | |
| ★★ | Wrath-Deck | garcia_edu | 3–2 | ④ | 2 days ago | |
| ★★ | Stolen High-Tide | phyrexiann | 2–3 | ④ | 2 days ago | |
| ColossusFire | jhow1991 | 2–2 | 2 days ago | |||
| Mono Green Turbo Sesh | thresh_sesh | 2–2 | 2 days ago | |||
| Mean Girls | miss_input | 2–2 | 2 days ago | |||
| Chthonian Reshaper v3 | poposin_hyde | 2–2 | 2 days ago |
Latest Decks
| ⇅ | Colors | Name | Person | Source | Record | Top 8 | Date |
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| Rakdos Fun | drdecorous | League | 3–2 | 2 hours ago | |||
| Dimir Flash | tox123 | League | 0–2 | 3 hours ago | |||
| Bad Robots | fadetoblack1183 | League | 1–3 | 3 hours ago | |||
| ★★ | Mean Girls | miss_input | League | 5–0 | 3 hours ago | ||
| Aura | toughsaruwatari | League | 3–2 | 4 hours ago | |||
| Rookie Deck Blue | mudkipmaster | League | 0–1 | 4 hours ago | |||
| Oomans | windowlick | League | 6 hours ago | ||||
| Oomans | windowlick | League | 0–1 | 6 hours ago | |||
| Hooman | phyrexiann | League | 3–2 | 6 hours ago | |||
| ★ | Mono Red Sesh | vagstor | League | 4–1 | 7 hours ago | ||
| Chthonian Reshaper v3 | poposin_hyde | League | 1–4 | 7 hours ago | |||
| Aura | miss_input | League | 3–2 | 9 hours ago | |||
| Glimpse of Five Colors | supergirl-type00 | League | 0–1 | 10 hours ago | |||
| Back to the Sythis Mines | fatallypushed | League | 0–2 | 11 hours ago | |||
| ★★ | High Tide | pascal3000 | League | 5–0 | 11 hours ago | ||
| ★ | 👸🏼 | miss_input | League | 4–1 | 12 hours ago | ||
| Red Deck Wins | sadd3x | League | 0–1 | 12 hours ago | |||
| Boroshuman+1+1 | swamp_thing | League | 1–1 | 13 hours ago | |||
| Red Deck Wins | sadd3x | League | 0–1 | 13 hours ago | |||
| Hi | phyrexiann | League | 0–1 | 14 hours ago |
Top Cards
| Card | # Decks | Record | Win % |
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| Pithing Needle | 978 | 1551–1580 | 49.5 |
| Hymn to Tourach | 613 | 995–952 | 51.1 |
| Aether Spike | 454 | 728–667 | 52.2 |
| Dig Through Time | 437 | 794–653 | 54.9 |
| Lost Legacy | 430 | 721–677 | 51.6 |
| Lurrus of the Dream-Den | 425 | 903–613 | 59.6 |
| Forbid | 377 | 627–546 | 53.5 |
| Tune the Narrative | 362 | 585–529 | 52.5 |
Tournaments
Penny Dreadful Thursdays is in 14 hours, 58 minutes.
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Penny Dreadful Thursdays |
League January 2025 |
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Penny Dreadful FNM |
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Penny Dreadful Saturdays |
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APAC Penny Dreadful Sundays |
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Penny Dreadful Sundays |
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Penny Dreadful Mondays |
The Penny Dreadful 500 is on Feb 15th.
News
- miss_input went 5–0 in League January 2025 with Mean Girls 3 hours ago
- pascal3000 went 5–0 in League January 2025 with High Tide 11 hours ago
- Bump pyparsing from 3.2.0 to 3.2.1 12 hours ago
- windowlick went 5–0 in League December 2024 with Bone and Sac 1 day ago
- fatallypushed went 5–0 in League December 2024 with Eventually I Will Remember How to Play Magic 1 day ago
- jonsnow214 went 5–0 in League December 2024 with Turbo Fog 1 day ago
- bakert99 went 5–0 in League December 2024 with Mono Black Lurrus 2 days ago
- mdog won Penny Dreadful Mondays 36.06 with Humans 2 days ago
- pascal3000 went 5–0 in League December 2024 with High Tide 2 days ago
- Bump mypy from 1.14.0 to 1.14.1 2 days ago
Season 36
Season 36 began Nov 22nd and ends 7 weeks from now.
Community Stats
League and Tournament Matches Played
- 53 matches played today
- 484 matches played this week
- 2,473 matches played this month
- 3,877 matches played this season
- 377,224 matches played all time