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 2 days, 19 hours.
Congratulations to thewatchwander, winner of The Penny Dreadful 500 (Season 34)
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Leaderboard
Archetypes
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mono White Heroic | 79 | 193–107 | 64.3 | 12 |
| Midrange | 72 | 95–149 | 38.9 | 3 |
| Abzan Midrange | 69 | 125–131 | 48.8 | 2 |
| The Rock | 18 | 47–25 | 65.3 | 1 |
| Graveyard Value | 13 | 14–29 | 32.6 | |
| Varolz Dreadnought | 11 | 25–18 | 58.1 | |
| Séance | 4 | 9–5 | 64.3 | |
| Lifegain Midrange | 13 | 20–37 | 35.1 | |
| Mardu Midrange | 13 | 20–30 | 40.0 | 1 |
| Temur Energy | 12 | 28–15 | 65.1 | 1 |
| Mono Black Midrange | 11 | 20–20 | 50.0 | |
| Toughness Matters | 9 | 7–21 | 25.0 | |
| Treefolk | 9 | 8–13 | 38.1 | |
| Enchantments Matter | 8 | 13–17 | 43.3 | |
| Orzhov Midrange | 8 | 9–17 | 34.6 | |
| Zur the Enchanter | 8 | 8–18 | 30.8 | |
| Legends Midrange | 7 | 21–10 | 67.7 | 2 |
| Boros Legends Midrange | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
| Rakdos Midrange | 7 | 18–10 | 64.3 | 1 |
| Sultai Midrange | 7 | 8–15 | 34.8 | |
| Sultai Energy | 21 | 32–52 | 38.1 | |
| Neoform | 6 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |
| Simic Neoform | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Sultai Neoform | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Jund | 4 | 6–5 | 54.5 | 1 |
| Naya Midrange | 4 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |
| Blink | 3 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |
| Acid Trip | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |
| -1/-1 Counters | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |
| Big Red | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Dimir Midrange | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Fake-Rack | 2 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |
| Grenzo | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |
| Allies | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Mardu Allies | 12 | 29–24 | 54.7 | 1 |
| Boros Allies | 3 | 7–8 | 46.7 | |
| Mono White Allies | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Anti-Persecution | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Elementals | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Temur Ascendancy | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Vampires | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Mono Black Vampires | 4 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |
| Orzhov Vampires | 4 | 6–14 | 30.0 | |
| Rakdos Vampires | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |
| Mono Blue Post Desire | 28 | 61–44 | 58.1 | 4 |
| Combo | 24 | 28–51 | 35.4 | |
| Maniac Combo | 28 | 79–37 | 68.1 | 4 |
| Eggs | 21 | 37–44 | 45.7 | |
| Metalwork Colossus | 19 | 32–42 | 43.2 | 1 |
| Upheaval Colossus | 20 | 53–23 | 69.7 | 2 |
| Necrotic Ooze Combo | 19 | 39–27 | 59.1 | 1 |
| Combo Post | 18 | 30–30 | 50.0 | 2 |
| New Perspectives | 15 | 29–25 | 53.7 | 2 |
| Saffi Combo | 14 | 42–22 | 65.6 | 2 |
| Polymorph | 8 | 6–18 | 25.0 | |
| Dubious Challenge | 7 | 7–19 | 26.9 | |
| Taking Turns | 4 | 1–9 | 10.0 | |
| Jeskai Ascendancy | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |
| Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 23 | 55–41 | 57.3 | |
| Storm | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Simic Storm | 34 | 52–60 | 46.4 | |
| Dragonstorm | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Eye of the Storm | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Green Stormless Storm | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Myr Incubator | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Oriss Genesis | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Umbral Mantle | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |
| Azorius Wave | 23 | 55–28 | 66.3 | 2 |
| Affinity | 22 | 41–38 | 51.9 | |
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 21 | 51–35 | 59.3 | 2 |
| Aggro | 19 | 41–36 | 53.2 | |
| Elves | 55 | 123–106 | 53.7 | 2 |
| Red Deck Wins | 53 | 130–88 | 59.6 | 8 |
| Mono Red Devotion | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |
| Proliferate Red | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Mono Red Swarm | 24 | 34–35 | 49.3 | 1 |
| Mono Black Aggro | 17 | 42–29 | 59.2 | 1 |
| Rogues | 15 | 22–24 | 47.8 | |
| White Weenie | 15 | 28–33 | 45.9 | |
| Chroma White | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Kithkin | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Zombies | 13 | 25–25 | 50.0 | 1 |
| Merfolk | 12 | 9–13 | 40.9 | |
| Tokens | 12 | 19–22 | 46.3 | |
| Selesnya Tokens | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
| Voltron | 8 | 6–28 | 17.6 | |
| Equipment Aggro | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Hexproof | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |
| Goblins | 7 | 12–16 | 42.9 | |
| Mono Blue Aggro | 7 | 8–15 | 34.8 | |
| Illusions | 6 | 10–5 | 66.7 | 1 |
| Mono Green Stompy | 6 | 10–10 | 50.0 | |
| Selesnya Little Kid | 6 | 3–14 | 17.6 | |
| Gruul Aggro | 5 | 7–7 | 50.0 | |
| Werewolves | 5 | 7–8 | 46.7 | |
| Warriors | 2 | 5–1 | 83.3 | 1 |
| Rakdos Aggro | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Slivers | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Aggro-Control | 14 | 25–35 | 41.7 | |
| Izzet Tempo | 6 | 5–17 | 22.7 | |
| Lich Aggro-Control | 6 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |
| Azorius Skies | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |
| 12 Pest | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Tetsukotog | 2 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |
| Wizards | 2 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |
| Control | 14 | 39–21 | 65.0 | 2 |
| Esper Control | 52 | 113–90 | 55.7 | 8 |
| Demonic Rising | 51 | 127–83 | 60.5 | 4 |
| Ponza | 19 | 26–40 | 39.4 | |
| Turbo Fog | 17 | 25–34 | 42.4 | |
| Dynavolt Tower | 14 | 17–30 | 36.2 | |
| Jeskai Control | 13 | 22–26 | 45.8 | 1 |
| Azorius Control | 9 | 19–15 | 55.9 | 1 |
| Guildgate Control | 8 | 12–19 | 38.7 | |
| Dimir Control | 7 | 15–12 | 55.6 | |
| Five Color Control | 7 | 4–18 | 18.2 | |
| Mill | 7 | 2–13 | 13.3 | |
| Mono Blue Control | 7 | 4–20 | 16.7 | |
| Stagnant Control | 6 | 6–12 | 33.3 | |
| Mardu Control | 5 | 8–12 | 40.0 | |
| Pox | 5 | 9–14 | 39.1 | |
| Dragon Control | 4 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |
| Grixis Dragons | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Galleon Control | 4 | 2–10 | 16.7 | |
| Izzet Control | 3 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |
| Mono Black Control | 3 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |
| Mono White Control | 3 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |
| Sultai Control | 3 | 6–9 | 40.0 | |
| Cloudpost Control | 2 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 26 | 55–43 | 56.1 | 3 |
| Mono White Cloudpost Control | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |
| Azorius Cloudpost Control | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |
| Cycling Control | 2 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |
| Astral Slide | 10 | 12–19 | 38.7 | |
| Runeflare | 2 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |
| Boros Control | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Wildfire | 13 | 14–34 | 29.2 | |
| Hermit Dredge | 10 | 36–10 | 78.3 | 3 |
| Azorius Heroic | 9 | 17–23 | 42.5 | |
| Traditional Reanimator | 9 | 6–13 | 31.6 | |
| Dimir Reanimator | 9 | 16–20 | 44.4 | |
| Cloudpost Wave Blink | 7 | 19–5 | 79.2 | 3 |
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 7 | 15–10 | 60.0 | 1 |
| Ramp | 7 | 3–15 | 16.7 | |
| Rofellos Ramp | 49 | 105–89 | 54.1 | 6 |
| Wild Pair | 5 | 9–11 | 45.0 | 1 |
| Cloudpost Ramp | 10 | 15–25 | 37.5 | |
| Golgari Post | 57 | 164–106 | 60.7 | 5 |
| Gruul Post | 7 | 4–15 | 21.1 | |
| Simic Post | 4 | 5–8 | 38.5 | |
| Eldrazipost | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Greenpost | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Locus Awakening | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Defenders | 7 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |
| Aggro-Combo | 6 | 15–15 | 50.0 | 1 |
| Infect | 14 | 25–25 | 50.0 | |
| Trickbind Dreadnought | 9 | 16–17 | 48.5 | |
| Izzet Dreadnought | 5 | 10–4 | 71.4 | 1 |
| Pummeler | 3 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |
| Burn | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Izzet Blitzkrieg | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Temur Madness | 6 | 6–11 | 35.3 | |
| Boros Vehicles | 4 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 4 | 11–5 | 68.8 | |
| 8 Goyf | 3 | 9–6 | 60.0 | |
| Actual Warp World | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Combo-Control | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |
| Battle of Wits | 10 | 3–18 | 14.3 | |
| Displace Loop | 7 | 22–8 | 73.3 | 1 |
| Familiars | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Pickles | 2 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |
| Burning Vengeance | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Curious Niv-Mizzet | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
| Cruel Control | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
| Golgari Aristocrats | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |
| Naya "Twin" | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |
| Abzan Aristocrats | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Abzan Wave | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Boros Heroic | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Dimir Faeries | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Hermit Gond | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 |