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 6 weeks, 5 days.
Recent Top League Decks
| ⇅ | Colors | Name | Person | Record | OMW | Date |
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| ★★ | Selesnya-Auras v1.1 | xoni017 | 5–0 | 32% | 1 day ago | |
| ★★ | Not the Run It Back Guy | windowlick | 5–0 | 33% | 1 day ago | |
| ★★ | Humans | robbie2540 | 5–0 | 40% | 1 day ago | |
| ★★ | High Tide | pascal3000 | 5–0 | 30% | 1 day ago | |
| ★★ | Running It Back2Back | egze249 | 5–0 | 25% | 1 day ago | |
| ★★ | Mean Girls | miss_input | 5–0 | 29% | 2 days ago | |
| ★★ | High Tide | pascal3000 | 5–0 | 31% | 2 days ago |
Latest Tournament Top 8
| ⇅ | Colors | Name | Person | Record | Top 8 | Date |
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| ★★★ | Tide | maximusttdk | 6–1 | ① | 20 hours ago | |
| ★★ | Boring | miss_input | 5–2 | ② | 20 hours ago | |
| ★★ | Kaya Ghost Assassin Is the Format Mascot | ailith | 3–3 | ④ | 20 hours ago | |
| ★★ | Lurrus Sink | miniondevelopment | 3–3 | ④ | 20 hours ago | |
| ★ | Heartless Gyruda v1 | poposin_hyde | 2–3 | ⑧ | 20 hours ago | |
| ★ | No Dog | vagstor | 3–2 | ⑧ | 20 hours ago | |
| ★ | Auras | thyshuffler | 4–1 | ⑧ | 20 hours ago | |
| ★ | Wrath-Deck | garcia_edu | 3–2 | ⑧ | 20 hours ago |
Latest Decks
| ⇅ | Colors | Name | Person | Source | Record | Top 8 | Date |
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| Small Ball Yorzhov | miniondevelopment | League | 2–1 | 11 minutes ago | |||
| Tide | _onecurlyboy | League | 0–2 | 1 hour ago | |||
| ★ | Architect | kryome | League | 4–1 | 1 hour ago | ||
| ★ | Stax Revised | wmackinnonwhs | League | 4–1 | 2 hours ago | ||
| Os Manos | ray_penber | League | 3–2 | 2 hours ago | |||
| Auras | gearhulkazul | League | 0–2 | 3 hours ago | |||
| Human v1.4 | tenderloin | League | 1–4 | 3 hours ago | |||
| Knights | cippdogg | League | 2–3 | 4 hours ago | |||
| Gaak | egze249 | League | 2–3 | 5 hours ago | |||
| Dumb | jonsnow214 | League | 0–6 | 5 hours ago | |||
| Temur | swamp_thing | League | 0–2 | 6 hours ago | |||
| ★ | High Tide | sairu | League | 4–1 | 6 hours ago | ||
| Words of War | pilgrim | League | 0–2 | 6 hours ago | |||
| Lurrus Sink v2 | miniondevelopment | League | 0–1 | 6 hours ago | |||
| ThA RoCk | klaus_vangliff | League | 3–2 | 7 hours ago | |||
| Esper Humans | tommycakes | League | 0–1 | 8 hours ago | |||
| ★ | Human v1.4 | tenderloin | League | 4–1 | 8 hours ago | ||
| ★ | Big Back | cippdogg | League | 4–1 | 8 hours ago | ||
| Esper Flash | tox123 | League | 2–3 | 12 hours ago | |||
| Rakdos Madness | rgriff | League | 0–1 | 15 hours ago |
Top Cards
| Card | # Decks | Record | Win % |
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| Pithing Needle | 1027 | 1621–1665 | 49.3 |
| Hymn to Tourach | 654 | 1057–1020 | 50.9 |
| Aether Spike | 483 | 754–715 | 51.3 |
| Lost Legacy | 462 | 778–737 | 51.4 |
| Lurrus of the Dream-Den | 462 | 991–656 | 60.2 |
| Dig Through Time | 461 | 816–690 | 54.2 |
| Forbid | 403 | 651–591 | 52.4 |
| Tune the Narrative | 384 | 605–562 | 51.8 |
Tournaments
APAC Penny Dreadful Sundays is in 10 hours, 37 minutes.
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APAC Penny Dreadful Sundays |
League January 2025 |
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Penny Dreadful Sundays |
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Penny Dreadful Mondays |
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Penny Dreadful Thursdays |
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Penny Dreadful FNM |
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Penny Dreadful Saturdays |
The Penny Dreadful 500 is on Feb 15th.
News
- maximusttdk won Penny Dreadful FNM 36.07 with Tide 20 hours ago
- Hypergenesis for S36 (Twitch VOD for 1/2/25) 20 hours ago
- xoni017 went 5–0 in League January 2025 with Selesnya-Auras v1.1 1 day ago
- windowlick went 5–0 in League January 2025 with Not the Run It Back Guy 1 day ago
- robbie2540 won Penny Dreadful Thursdays 36.06 with Humans 1 day ago
- robbie2540 went 5–0 in League January 2025 with Humans 1 day ago
- Bump pytest-asyncio from 0.25.0 to 0.25.1 1 day ago
- pascal3000 went 5–0 in League January 2025 with High Tide 1 day ago
- Bump urllib3 from 2.2.3 to 2.3.0 1 day ago
- egze249 went 5–0 in League January 2025 with Running It Back2Back 1 day ago
Season 36
Season 36 began Nov 22nd and ends 6 weeks from now.
Community Stats
League and Tournament Matches Played
- 100 matches played today
- 562 matches played this week
- 2,555 matches played this month
- 4,131 matches played this season
- 377,478 matches played all time