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 1 week.
Decks
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Leaderboard
Archetypes
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combo | 38 | 58–57 | 50.4 | 2 |
| Hypergenesis | 34 | 51–66 | 43.6 | 1 |
| Eggs | 24 | 30–45 | 40.0 | 2 |
| Storm | 6 | 6–11 | 35.3 | |
| Simic Storm | 6 | 7–16 | 30.4 | |
| Hazoret Storm | 4 | 0–8 | 0.0 | |
| Izzet Storm | 4 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |
| Combo Post | 4 | 3–10 | 23.1 | |
| Quest for Ula's Temple | 3 | 9–3 | 75.0 | |
| Dubious Challenge | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Simic Madness | 32 | 44–48 | 47.8 | 2 |
| Azorius Wave | 25 | 63–44 | 58.9 | 4 |
| Midrange | 24 | 13–56 | 18.8 | |
| Toughness Matters | 52 | 26–88 | 22.8 | |
| Mono Black Midrange | 24 | 41–39 | 51.3 | 1 |
| Graveyard Value | 17 | 23–29 | 44.2 | 1 |
| Fake-Rack | 9 | 14–23 | 37.8 | |
| Orzhov Midrange | 8 | 13–12 | 52.0 | |
| Temur Ascendancy | 8 | 3–19 | 13.6 | |
| Prophet Ascendancy | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Temur Energy | 7 | 18–9 | 66.7 | 1 |
| Dimir Midrange | 6 | 13–12 | 52.0 | 1 |
| Jund | 6 | 4–10 | 28.6 | |
| Sultai Midrange | 4 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |
| Sultai Emerge | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |
| Abzan Midrange | 2 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 |
| Jeskai Midrange | 2 | 1–8 | 11.1 | |
| Rakdos Midrange | 2 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |
| White Jund | 2 | 6–3 | 66.7 | 1 |
| Big Red | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Blink | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Acid Trip | 2 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Ordealbreak | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Vampires | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Mono Black Vampires | 2 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |
| Rakdos Vampires | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Tempered Steel | 22 | 61–32 | 65.6 | 4 |
| Aggro-Control | 21 | 32–44 | 42.1 | |
| Mono Blue Gush | 25 | 56–50 | 52.8 | 2 |
| Ninjas | 15 | 29–24 | 54.7 | 2 |
| Izzet Tempo | 14 | 33–29 | 53.2 | 2 |
| Izzet Spells | 6 | 16–11 | 59.3 | 1 |
| Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 18 | 40–31 | 56.3 | 2 |
| Stax | 17 | 31–42 | 42.5 | |
| Pollute the Planet | 5 | 19–6 | 76.0 | 1 |
| Esper Control | 9 | 14–17 | 45.2 | 1 |
| Cloudpost Wave Blink | 8 | 8–10 | 44.4 | |
| Five Color Control | 8 | 15–11 | 57.7 | 1 |
| Azorius Control | 7 | 12–12 | 50.0 | |
| Cephalid Breakfast | 6 | 1–11 | 8.3 | |
| Druid Cephalid Breakfast | 22 | 59–36 | 62.1 | 2 |
| Mono Blue Post Desire | 6 | 3–12 | 20.0 | |
| Selesnya Cats | 6 | 14–12 | 53.8 | |
| Izzet Control | 5 | 11–9 | 55.0 | 1 |
| Demonic Rising | 4 | 8–11 | 42.1 | |
| Dimir Control | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Mono Blue Control | 3 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |
| Mono White Control | 3 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
| Life is Ez | 3 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |
| Traditional Reanimator | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |
| Turbo Fog | 3 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |
| Affinity | 2 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |
| Boros Control | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
| Combo-Control | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |
| Battle of Wits | 6 | 7–22 | 24.1 | |
| Curious Niv-Mizzet | 3 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |
| Pickles | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Four Color Counter Ghazi | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Mill | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |
| Mono Blue Architect | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |
| Orzhov Control | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Ramp | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Cloudpost Ramp | 4 | 0–8 | 0.0 | |
| Greenpost | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |
| Rofellos Ramp | 4 | 7–7 | 50.0 | |
| Channel-Rofellos | 130 | 346–145 | 70.5 | 25 |
| Runeflare | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Salvage Titan | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |
| Sultai Control | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Abzan Aristocrats | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Aggro | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Red Deck Wins | 55 | 131–86 | 60.4 | 8 |
| Mono Red Devotion | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| White Weenie | 38 | 73–63 | 53.7 | 2 |
| Odric Keywords | 5 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |
| Soldiers | 5 | 6–12 | 33.3 | |
| Mono Black Aggro | 19 | 22–25 | 46.8 | |
| Goblins | 17 | 30–37 | 44.8 | |
| Elves | 13 | 15–28 | 34.9 | |
| Mono Blue Aggro | 3 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |
| Mono Red Swarm | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Slivers | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |
| Heroic | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 18 | 37–35 | 51.4 | 1 |
| Selesnya Heroic | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |
| Mono White Heroic | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |
| Knights | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Warriors | 1 | |||
| Zombies | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
| Aggro-Combo | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Hermit Humans | 11 | 19–22 | 46.3 | |
| Infect | 9 | 12–24 | 33.3 | |
| Golgari Infect | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Burn | 4 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |
| Pummeler | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Blackpost | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| BRGW Allies | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Cruel Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Familiars | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Jeskai Control | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Mardu Allies | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Mardu Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Mono White Allies | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Wildfire | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 |