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, 2 days.
Decks
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Leaderboard
Archetypes
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Druid Cephalid Breakfast | 44 | 74–48 | 60.7 | 4 |
| Azorius Wave | 25 | 55–38 | 59.1 | 1 |
| Tempered Steel | 24 | 46–44 | 51.1 | |
| Simic Madness | 17 | 25–30 | 45.5 | |
| Midrange | 15 | 2–33 | 5.7 | |
| Mono Black Midrange | 17 | 21–31 | 40.4 | |
| Graveyard Value | 7 | 16–14 | 53.3 | |
| Jund | 6 | 11–12 | 47.8 | |
| Toughness Matters | 3 | 2–12 | 14.3 | |
| Rakdos Midrange | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Temur Ascendancy | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Treefolk | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Abzan Midrange | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Anti-Persecution | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
| Big Red | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Blink | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Acid Trip | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Elementals | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |
| Hellion Whip | 1 | |||
| Jeskai Midrange | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Temur Energy | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| The Rock | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Aggro-Control | 13 | 14–27 | 34.1 | |
| Mono Blue Gush | 34 | 64–64 | 50.0 | 4 |
| Ninjas | 15 | 21–25 | 45.7 | |
| Izzet Tempo | 5 | 6–10 | 37.5 | |
| Izzet Spells | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
| Wizards | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Azorius Cloudpost Control | 10 | 14–10 | 58.3 | 1 |
| Affinity | 7 | 12–13 | 48.0 | |
| Orzhov Allies | 7 | 7–20 | 25.9 | |
| Mono White Heroic | 6 | 8–11 | 42.1 | |
| Combo | 5 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |
| Storm | 11 | 3–18 | 14.3 | |
| Channel Storm | 3 | 5–2 | 71.4 | |
| Simic Storm | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
| Eggs | 5 | 8–6 | 57.1 | 1 |
| Combo Post | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Hypergenesis | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |
| Quest for Ula's Temple | 2 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |
| Maniac Combo | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Combo-Control | 5 | 3–11 | 21.4 | |
| Cruel Combo-Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Pickles | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Aggro | 4 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |
| Red Deck Wins | 42 | 77–60 | 56.2 | 3 |
| Mono Black Aggro | 37 | 108–49 | 68.8 | 6 |
| White Weenie | 19 | 50–30 | 62.5 | 3 |
| Odric Keywords | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Kithkin | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Soldiers | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Elves | 12 | 14–25 | 35.9 | 1 |
| Zombies | 10 | 22–11 | 66.7 | 1 |
| Mono Red Swarm | 9 | 12–12 | 50.0 | |
| Slivers | 8 | 3–9 | 25.0 | |
| Goblins | 4 | 3–17 | 15.0 | |
| Mono Blue Aggro | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Illusions | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Green Stompy | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |
| Minotaurs | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Naya Zoo | 1 | |||
| Voltron | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 4 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |
| Selesnya Humans | 4 | 7–6 | 53.8 | |
| Cruel Control | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Selesnya Tokens | 3 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |
| Astral Slide | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Goblin Persist | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |
| Mono Blue Post Desire | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |
| Rakdos Vampires | 2 | 6–3 | 66.7 | |
| Ramp | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Rofellos Ramp | 2 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Channel-Rofellos | 86 | 236–103 | 69.6 | 13 |
| Aggro-Combo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Pummeler | 6 | 14–13 | 51.9 | |
| Hermit Humans | 5 | 6–5 | 54.5 | |
| Burn | 3 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |
| Aristocrats | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |
| Abzan Aristocrats | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Infect | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Boros Heroic | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Cloudpost Wave Blink | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Stax | 14 | 11–31 | 26.2 | |
| Pollute the Planet | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Turbo Fog | 12 | 20–27 | 42.6 | |
| Esper Control | 9 | 10–25 | 28.6 | |
| Azorius Control | 8 | 10–8 | 55.6 | |
| Demonic Rising | 6 | 13–7 | 65.0 | |
| Mono Blue Control | 6 | 1–9 | 10.0 | |
| Jeskai Control | 4 | 7–11 | 38.9 | |
| Dimir Control | 3 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |
| Mill | 3 | 2–9 | 18.2 | |
| Ponza | 3 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |
| Five Color Control | 2 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |
| Runeflare | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Dragon Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Izzet Control | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Mono Black Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mono White Control | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Life is Ez | 6 | 16–11 | 59.3 | |
| Orzhov Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mardu Allies | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Mono Black Vampires | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Blue Architect | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
| Mono White Cats | 1 | |||
| Sultai Emerge | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Wildfire | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 |