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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Esper Control | 21 | 25–33 | 43.1 | 1 |
| Unclassified | 16 | 9–31 | 22.5 | |
| Izzet Spells | 15 | 30–24 | 55.6 | |
| Selesnya Tokens | 13 | 11–19 | 36.7 | |
| Druid Cephalid Breakfast | 9 | 15–13 | 53.6 | 1 |
| Midrange | 7 | 8–17 | 32.0 | |
| Dimir Midrange | 10 | 14–16 | 46.7 | 1 |
| Blink | 8 | 3–14 | 17.6 | |
| Wave Blink | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Azorius Wave | 24 | 75–26 | 74.3 | 3 |
| Treefolk | 8 | 19–15 | 55.9 | |
| Enchantments Matter | 4 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |
| Clerics | 3 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Mono Black Midrange | 3 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |
| Mardu Midrange | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | 1 |
| Orzhov Midrange | 2 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |
| The Rock | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |
| Toughness Matters | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Allies | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
| Orzhov Allies | 12 | 18–16 | 52.9 | 1 |
| Boros Allies | 3 | 6–5 | 54.5 | |
| Mono White Allies | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
| Coinflips | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Fake-Rack | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Graveyard Value | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Jund | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Lifegain Midrange | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Rakdos Midrange | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |
| Temur Ascendancy | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Dimir Control | 5 | 7–6 | 53.8 | 1 |
| Mono White Heroic | 5 | 13–7 | 65.0 | |
| Turbo Fog | 5 | 10–7 | 58.8 | 1 |
| Aristocrats | 4 | 9–5 | 64.3 | 1 |
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 12 | 26–25 | 51.0 | |
| Food | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Combo-Control | 4 | 3–9 | 25.0 | |
| Pickles | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Ninjas | 4 | 9–5 | 64.3 | |
| Tempered Steel | 4 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |
| 12 Pest | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Affinity | 3 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |
| Aggro | 3 | 4–11 | 26.7 | |
| Red Deck Wins | 19 | 50–29 | 63.3 | 1 |
| Elves | 10 | 14–13 | 51.9 | 1 |
| Mono Black Aggro | 4 | 10–7 | 58.8 | |
| Werewolves | 4 | 11–5 | 68.8 | |
| Zombies | 3 | 9–5 | 64.3 | |
| Goblins | 2 | 1–8 | 11.1 | |
| White Weenie | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |
| Soldiers | 7 | 12–18 | 40.0 | |
| Quest for the Holy Relic | 4 | 13–3 | 81.3 | |
| Rakdos Aggro | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Selesnya Little Kid | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Voltron | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Combo | 3 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Hypergenesis | 11 | 19–19 | 50.0 | |
| Myr Incubator | 8 | 6–12 | 33.3 | |
| Quest for Ula's Temple | 4 | 5–11 | 31.3 | |
| Eggs | 3 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Oops All Lands | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |
| Storm | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Channel Storm | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Izzet Storm | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Infect | 3 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |
| Stax | 3 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |
| Azorius Control | 2 | 6–2 | 75.0 | |
| Boros Control | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Mill | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Mono Blue Gush | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Rakdos Vampires | 2 | 1–10 | 9.1 | |
| Selesnya Humans | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |
| Bant Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Blue Madness | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Simic Madness | 6 | 8–13 | 38.1 | |
| Boros Heroic | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Burn | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Cloudpost Control | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Dimir Cloudpost Control | 3 | 7–7 | 50.0 | |
| Azorius Cloudpost Control | 2 | 8–2 | 80.0 | |
| Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mono White Cloudpost Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Cycling Control | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Astral Slide | 3 | 2–10 | 16.7 | |
| Demonic Rising | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Goblin Persist | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Guildgate Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Hermit Humans | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Izzet Tempo | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Jeskai Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Black Control | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Ramp | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Cloudpost Ramp | 6 | 19–9 | 67.9 | |
| Rofellos Ramp | 5 | 6–11 | 35.3 | |
| Channel-Rofellos | 40 | 106–52 | 67.1 | 7 |