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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Archetypes
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AggroSlide | 15 | 47–32 | 59.5 | 1 | 2 |
| Red Deck Wins | 11 | 42–33 | 56.0 | 0 | 1 |
| Zombies | 9 | 27–21 | 56.3 | 0 | 1 |
| High Tide | 7 | 22–14 | 61.1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mono Blue Tempo | 7 | 16–20 | 44.4 | ||
| Borderpost Wildfire | 4 | 6–10 | 37.5 | ||
| Izzet Spells | 4 | 13–9 | 59.1 | ||
| Mono White Heroic | 4 | 17–11 | 60.7 | 0 | 1 |
| White Weenie | 4 | 11–12 | 47.8 | ||
| Azorius Control | 3 | 4–9 | 30.8 | ||
| Greenpost | 3 | 6–9 | 40.0 | ||
| Azorius Wave | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | ||
| Dimir Control | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | ||
| Golgari Post | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | ||
| Izzet Tempo | 2 | 7–5 | 58.3 | 0 | 1 |
| Knights | 2 | 8–4 | 66.7 | ||
| Mono White Tokens | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | ||
| Ponza | 2 | 4–6 | 40.0 | ||
| Arcum's Not Astrolabe | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | ||
| Azorius Heroic | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | ||
| Blazing Shoal Combo | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | ||
| Cruel Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | ||
| Domain | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | ||
| Double Dragon | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | ||
| Dubious Challenge | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | ||
| Elves | 1 | 3–3 | 50.0 | ||
| Esper Control | 1 | 5–2 | 71.4 | ||
| Fake-Twin | 1 | 1–6 | 14.3 | ||
| Five Color Control | 1 | 2–5 | 28.6 | ||
| Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | 2–4 | 33.3 | ||
| Hermit Gond | 1 | 4–3 | 57.1 | ||
| Jeskai Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | ||
| Jokulhaups Combo | 1 | 2–4 | 33.3 | ||
| Mardu Control | 1 | 2–5 | 28.6 | ||
| Midrange | 1 | 8–3 | 72.7 | 0 | 1 |
| Rakdos Midrange | 3 | 8–9 | 47.1 | ||
| Big Red | 2 | 9–7 | 56.3 | ||
| Mono Black Midrange | 2 | 7–5 | 58.3 | ||
| Mono Black Devotion | 3 | 4–8 | 33.3 | ||
| Blink | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | ||
| Fake-Rack | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | ||
| Mono Black Reanimator | 1 | 3–3 | 50.0 | ||
| Mono Blue Architect | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | ||
| Mono Blue Dreadnought | 1 | 5–3 | 62.5 | ||
| Neoform Hermit | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | ||
| Runeflare | 1 | 2–5 | 28.6 | ||
| Seismic Swans | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | ||
| Solar Flare | 1 | 4–3 | 57.1 | ||
| Soulflayer | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | ||
| Stax | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | ||
| Tempered Steel | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | ||
| Temur Reclamation | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | ||
| Voltron | 1 | 4–4 | 50.0 | ||
| Hexproof | 1 | 2–4 | 33.3 | ||
| Zur's Weirding | 1 | 5–3 | 62.5 |