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, 6 days.
Decks
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Leaderboard
Archetypes
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Astral Slide | 55 | 77–101 | 43.3 | 3 |
| Ramp | 21 | 31–38 | 44.9 | 1 |
| Applejacks | 16 | 23–24 | 48.9 | |
| Midrange | 15 | 7–32 | 17.9 | |
| Toughness Matters | 46 | 32–71 | 31.1 | |
| Dimir Midrange | 26 | 49–46 | 51.6 | 3 |
| Lifegain Midrange | 20 | 25–44 | 36.2 | |
| The Rock | 14 | 25–25 | 50.0 | |
| Adventures | 11 | 12–17 | 41.4 | |
| Fake-Rack | 10 | 5–30 | 14.3 | |
| Graveyard Value | 9 | 15–23 | 39.5 | |
| Rakdos Midrange | 9 | 8–18 | 30.8 | |
| Elementals | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Jund | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Black Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Black Devotion | 79 | 147–133 | 52.5 | 4 |
| Orzhov Midrange | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Sultai Midrange | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Aggro-Control | 9 | 17–15 | 53.1 | |
| Izzet Tempo | 86 | 191–124 | 60.6 | 8 |
| Dimir Tempo | 31 | 80–38 | 67.8 | 6 |
| Mono Blue Tempo | 21 | 35–34 | 50.7 | |
| Azorius Skies | 15 | 30–18 | 62.5 | 1 |
| Izzet Spells | 15 | 30–27 | 52.6 | 1 |
| Simic Flash | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |
| Azorius Tempo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Simic Madness | 7 | 6–13 | 31.6 | |
| Aggro | 4 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |
| Red Deck Wins | 50 | 100–81 | 55.2 | 1 |
| Mono Green Stompy | 16 | 30–33 | 47.6 | |
| Mono Red Swarm | 12 | 18–22 | 45.0 | |
| Knights | 10 | 8–25 | 24.2 | |
| Voltron | 10 | 10–16 | 38.5 | |
| Hexproof | 4 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |
| Boros Auras | 3 | 6–5 | 54.5 | |
| Equipment Aggro | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Hateful Auras | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| White Weenie | 7 | 6–14 | 30.0 | |
| Soldiers | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |
| Goblins | 4 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |
| Mono Black Aggro | 4 | 5–8 | 38.5 | |
| Merfolk | 3 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |
| Boros Aggro | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Gruul Aggro | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Heroic | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Azorius Heroic | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |
| Tokens | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Mono White Tokens | 16 | 30–27 | 52.6 | 1 |
| Selesnya Tokens | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Traditional Reanimator | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Mono Black Reanimator | 14 | 14–17 | 45.2 | |
| Grixis Reanimator | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Affinity | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Aggro-Combo | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |
| Infect | 7 | 5–19 | 20.8 | |
| Burn | 3 | 5–2 | 71.4 | 1 |
| Aristocrats | 2 | 1–9 | 10.0 | |
| Food | 43 | 77–90 | 46.1 | |
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 7 | 8–18 | 30.8 | |
| Rakdos Aristocrats | 4 | 5–12 | 29.4 | |
| Abzan Aristocrats | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Control | 2 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |
| Guildgate Control | 130 | 283–165 | 63.2 | 17 |
| Dimir Control | 55 | 130–78 | 62.5 | 6 |
| Temur Reclamation | 46 | 103–64 | 61.7 | 5 |
| Grixis Control | 24 | 27–38 | 41.5 | |
| Sultai Control | 17 | 13–27 | 32.5 | |
| Izzet Control | 10 | 21–13 | 61.8 | 1 |
| Ponza | 6 | 14–12 | 53.8 | |
| Azorius Control | 5 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |
| Bant Control | 4 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Esper Control | 4 | 4–10 | 28.6 | |
| Mill | 3 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |
| Orzhov Control | 3 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |
| Mono Black Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Stax | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Reclamation Storm | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Combo | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Oriss Genesis | 7 | 6–18 | 25.0 | |
| Lookout-Buccaneer Combo | 6 | 7–12 | 36.8 | |
| Retraction Helix Combo | 6 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |
| Storm | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Selesnya Counters | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Sultai Neoform | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 |