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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midrange | 45 | 42–98 | 30.0 | |
| Graveyard Value | 33 | 37–63 | 37.0 | 1 |
| Séance | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Dimir Midrange | 22 | 33–35 | 48.5 | 2 |
| Mono Black Midrange | 16 | 29–27 | 51.8 | |
| Mono Black Devotion | 53 | 83–76 | 52.2 | 3 |
| Toughness Matters | 12 | 6–18 | 25.0 | |
| Rakdos Midrange | 10 | 15–21 | 41.7 | |
| Adventures | 9 | 4–16 | 20.0 | |
| Blink | 7 | 5–16 | 23.8 | |
| Lifegain Midrange | 7 | 13–13 | 50.0 | |
| Neoform | 5 | 7–7 | 50.0 | |
| UBRG Neoform | 7 | 15–11 | 57.7 | |
| Sultai Neoform | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Temur Neoform | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Jund | 3 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |
| Orzhov Midrange | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Big Red | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Fake-Rack | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Mardu Midrange | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Abzan Midrange | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Elementals | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Naya Midrange | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Reclamation Storm | 27 | 35–68 | 34.0 | |
| Aggro | 13 | 14–24 | 36.8 | |
| Knights | 63 | 134–89 | 60.1 | 9 |
| Red Deck Wins | 52 | 129–76 | 62.9 | 4 |
| Mono Red Swarm | 46 | 84–56 | 60.0 | 6 |
| Mono Green Stompy | 37 | 63–51 | 55.3 | 1 |
| White Weenie | 18 | 29–29 | 50.0 | |
| Soldiers | 9 | 9–13 | 40.9 | |
| Gruul Aggro | 14 | 32–27 | 54.2 | |
| Gruul Landfall | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Black Aggro | 14 | 23–30 | 43.4 | 1 |
| Voltron | 12 | 9–19 | 32.1 | |
| Hateful Auras | 16 | 32–19 | 62.7 | 3 |
| Hexproof | 4 | 4–11 | 26.7 | |
| Boros Auras | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Equipment Aggro | 2 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |
| Goblins | 6 | 3–13 | 18.8 | |
| Warriors | 6 | 9–8 | 52.9 | |
| Tokens | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Selesnya Tokens | 6 | 2–13 | 13.3 | |
| Mono White Tokens | 4 | 6–5 | 54.5 | |
| Boros Aggro | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Blue Aggro | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Selesnya Little Kid | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Selesnya Counters | 16 | 23–27 | 46.0 | 1 |
| Aggro-Control | 13 | 30–18 | 62.5 | 2 |
| Mono Blue Tempo | 68 | 146–92 | 61.3 | 8 |
| Izzet Spells | 32 | 64–52 | 55.2 | 2 |
| Izzet Tempo | 14 | 22–23 | 48.9 | 1 |
| Dimir Tempo | 12 | 27–16 | 62.8 | 2 |
| Azorius Skies | 9 | 14–15 | 48.3 | 1 |
| Ramp | 13 | 6–20 | 23.1 | |
| Aristocrats | 10 | 15–14 | 51.7 | 1 |
| Food | 109 | 221–170 | 56.5 | 11 |
| Rakdos Aristocrats | 10 | 14–18 | 43.8 | |
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 3 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |
| Golgari Aristocrats | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
| Burn | 8 | 13–15 | 46.4 | |
| Azorius Heroic | 6 | 12–11 | 52.2 | |
| Combo-Control | 5 | 8–11 | 42.1 | |
| Burning Vengeance | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Infect | 5 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |
| Simic Madness | 5 | 3–9 | 25.0 | |
| Traditional Reanimator | 5 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |
| Mono Black Reanimator | 79 | 101–136 | 42.6 | 3 |
| Grixis Reanimator | 2 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |
| Combo | 3 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |
| Retraction Helix Combo | 11 | 11–14 | 44.0 | |
| Lookout-Buccaneer Combo | 3 | 6–1 | 85.7 | |
| Oriss Genesis | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Control | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Guildgate Control | 154 | 308–230 | 57.2 | 9 |
| Dimir Control | 32 | 35–50 | 41.2 | 1 |
| Azorius Control | 19 | 28–31 | 47.5 | 1 |
| Izzet Control | 13 | 28–16 | 63.6 | 1 |
| Turbo Fog | 12 | 21–20 | 51.2 | |
| Sultai Control | 6 | 9–9 | 50.0 | |
| Temur Reclamation | 3 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |
| Cycling Control | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Astral Slide | 58 | 83–112 | 42.6 | 3 |
| Esper Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Grixis Control | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Jeskai Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mill | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Black Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Blue Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Black Vampires | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
| Mono White Cats | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |
| Affinity | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Azorius Cloudpost Control | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Gruul Madness | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Mono White Heroic | 1 |