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 9 weeks, 2 days.
Decks
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Leaderboard
Archetypes
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Affinity | 144 | 278–212 | 56.7 | 14 |
| Worldgorger Dragon | 102 | 219–98 | 69.1 | 16 |
| Azorius Control | 62 | 91–119 | 43.3 | 2 |
| Cawblade | 9 | 23–13 | 63.9 | |
| Mono White Heroic | 60 | 129–90 | 58.9 | 3 |
| Pox | 57 | 97–114 | 46.0 | 3 |
| Ponza | 44 | 61–74 | 45.2 | 1 |
| Midrange | 43 | 37–95 | 28.0 | |
| The Rock | 58 | 106–117 | 47.5 | 4 |
| Fake-Rack | 57 | 111–94 | 54.1 | 2 |
| Rakdos Midrange | 50 | 100–68 | 59.5 | 5 |
| Mardu Midrange | 40 | 72–84 | 46.2 | 1 |
| Orzhov Midrange | 39 | 89–58 | 60.5 | 3 |
| Mono Black Midrange | 33 | 58–67 | 46.4 | 2 |
| Heart of Darkness | 73 | 152–93 | 62.0 | 10 |
| Mono Black Devotion | 10 | 16–23 | 41.0 | |
| Dimir Midrange | 30 | 54–48 | 52.9 | 2 |
| Party | 20 | 27–40 | 40.3 | |
| Big Red | 15 | 25–27 | 48.1 | |
| Lifegain Midrange | 14 | 28–20 | 58.3 | 2 |
| Neoform | 14 | 20–32 | 38.5 | |
| Sultai Neoform | 26 | 49–49 | 50.0 | 3 |
| Temur Neoform | 5 | 1–10 | 9.1 | |
| Simic Neoform | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Anti-Persecution | 13 | 28–23 | 54.9 | 1 |
| Sultai Midrange | 12 | 19–23 | 45.2 | |
| Heartless Summoning Stompy | 11 | 11–21 | 34.4 | |
| Graveyard Value | 8 | 10–12 | 45.5 | |
| Séance | 14 | 26–20 | 56.5 | 1 |
| Varolz Dreadnought | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Jund | 8 | 8–14 | 36.4 | |
| Naya Midrange | 8 | 4–13 | 23.5 | |
| Legends Midrange | 5 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |
| Death Cloud | 4 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |
| Enchantments Matter | 4 | 1–11 | 8.3 | |
| Abzan Midrange | 3 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |
| Toughness Matters | 3 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |
| Allies | 2 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |
| Orzhov Allies | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Boros Allies | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| BRGW Allies | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Elementals | 2 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |
| Selesnya Midrange | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
| Selesnya Value Town | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| -1/-1 Counters | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Adventures | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Blink | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Grenzo | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Dimir Control | 37 | 65–45 | 59.1 | 3 |
| Grixis Control | 24 | 36–37 | 49.3 | 1 |
| Cruel Control | 8 | 10–17 | 37.0 | |
| Combo | 23 | 13–57 | 18.6 | |
| Dredge | 78 | 161–161 | 50.0 | 4 |
| Storm | 39 | 42–91 | 31.6 | 1 |
| Dimir Tendrils | 115 | 185–184 | 50.1 | 11 |
| Grixis Tendrils | 10 | 14–20 | 41.2 | |
| Izzet Storm | 8 | 7–17 | 29.2 | |
| Stormpost | 7 | 15–8 | 65.2 | 1 |
| Dragonstorm | 3 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |
| Hazoret Storm | 3 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |
| Taking Turns | 31 | 27–68 | 28.4 | |
| Izzet Ascension | 19 | 15–38 | 28.3 | |
| Heartless Summoning Combo | 18 | 20–35 | 36.4 | |
| Protean Hulk Combo | 16 | 21–30 | 41.2 | |
| Jokulhaups Combo | 14 | 22–29 | 43.1 | 1 |
| Soulflayer | 13 | 33–22 | 60.0 | |
| Polymorph | 9 | 3–14 | 17.6 | |
| Oriss Genesis | 8 | 14–10 | 58.3 | 1 |
| Dice Factory | 7 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |
| Eggs | 7 | 5–17 | 22.7 | |
| Ominous Good | 7 | 8–17 | 32.0 | |
| Hypergenesis | 6 | 4–14 | 22.2 | |
| Possibility Storm | 6 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |
| Oops All Lands | 4 | 4–10 | 28.6 | |
| Seismic Swans | 4 | 9–7 | 56.3 | |
| Maniac Combo | 3 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |
| Myr Incubator | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |
| Biovisionary | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |
| Breakfast | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Oops All Spells | 4 | 5–11 | 31.3 | |
| Dubious Challenge | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Lookout-Buccaneer Combo | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Necrotic Ooze Combo | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Retraction Helix Combo | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Turntimber Ranger | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Mill | 21 | 27–50 | 35.1 | |
| Mono Black Vampires | 21 | 21–56 | 27.3 | 1 |
| Ramp | 21 | 16–47 | 25.4 | |
| Cloudpost Ramp | 13 | 16–20 | 44.4 | |
| Greenpost | 125 | 255–200 | 56.0 | 9 |
| Gruul Post | 13 | 19–23 | 45.2 | 1 |
| Simic Post | 4 | 1–9 | 10.0 | |
| Locus Awakening | 1 | |||
| Summer Bloom Ramp | 6 | 8–18 | 30.8 | |
| Historic Bloom | 7 | 8–17 | 32.0 | |
| Defenders | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Villainous Wealth | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Aggro | 19 | 29–35 | 45.3 | 3 |
| Red Deck Wins | 101 | 231–160 | 59.1 | 6 |
| Mono Red Devotion | 5 | 11–7 | 61.1 | 1 |
| Proliferate Red | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Elves | 85 | 151–151 | 50.0 | 5 |
| Mono Green Stompy | 58 | 105–75 | 58.3 | 6 |
| Merfolk | 46 | 99–77 | 56.3 | 3 |
| White Weenie | 40 | 45–74 | 37.8 | 1 |
| Soldiers | 10 | 13–18 | 41.9 | |
| Kithkin | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| AggroSlide | 19 | 25–36 | 41.0 | 1 |
| Goblins | 16 | 25–29 | 46.3 | |
| Knights | 13 | 29–19 | 60.4 | 1 |
| Rakdos Aggro | 13 | 17–27 | 38.6 | |
| Rogues | 13 | 38–17 | 69.1 | |
| Selesnya Little Kid | 11 | 19–27 | 41.3 | |
| Selesnya Counters | 11 | 14–25 | 35.9 | |
| Zombies | 11 | 14–24 | 36.8 | |
| Gruul Aggro | 8 | 17–15 | 53.1 | |
| Gruul Landfall | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Tokens | 8 | 21–12 | 63.6 | |
| Mono White Tokens | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Selesnya Tokens | 2 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |
| Mono Red Swarm | 7 | 8–12 | 40.0 | |
| Mono Black Aggro | 5 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |
| Mono Blue Aggro | 4 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |
| Madness | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Golgari Madness | 6 | 15–9 | 62.5 | |
| Rakdos Madness | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Naya Zoo | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Werewolves | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
| Voltron | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Hexproof | 22 | 17–29 | 37.0 | |
| Equipment Aggro | 8 | 8–12 | 40.0 | |
| Hateful Auras | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Warriors | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Five Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 16 | 19–17 | 52.8 | 1 |
| Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 15 | 25–21 | 54.3 | 1 |
| Aggro-Control | 14 | 11–16 | 40.7 | |
| Izzet Tempo | 130 | 286–177 | 61.8 | 17 |
| Mono Blue Tempo | 56 | 112–79 | 58.6 | 3 |
| Mono Blue Faeries | 4 | 9–5 | 64.3 | |
| Dimir Tempo | 14 | 23–22 | 51.1 | |
| Izzet Spells | 14 | 26–18 | 59.1 | 1 |
| Azorius Skies | 6 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |
| Azorius Tempo | 6 | 8–11 | 42.1 | |
| Lich Aggro-Control | 6 | 5–13 | 27.8 | |
| Ninjas | 6 | 5–8 | 38.5 | |
| Wizards | 4 | 8–6 | 57.1 | |
| Esper Control | 13 | 14–22 | 38.9 | |
| Dimir Cycling Reanimator | 11 | 33–14 | 70.2 | 1 |
| Goblin Persist | 11 | 24–15 | 61.5 | |
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 11 | 21–23 | 47.7 | |
| Mono White Cloudpost Control | 10 | 23–17 | 57.5 | |
| Runeflare | 10 | 8–23 | 25.8 | |
| Mono Blue Control | 9 | 6–21 | 22.2 | |
| Azorius Cloudpost Control | 8 | 14–14 | 50.0 | 1 |
| Demonic Rising | 7 | 14–10 | 58.3 | |
| Mono White Control | 7 | 8–8 | 50.0 | |
| Aggro-Combo | 6 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |
| Burn | 29 | 44–53 | 45.4 | 1 |
| Infect | 5 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |
| Simic Infect | 15 | 31–24 | 56.4 | |
| Golgari Infect | 3 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |
| Pummeler | 4 | 7–11 | 38.9 | |
| Aristocrats | 3 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 36 | 102–44 | 69.9 | 6 |
| Rakdos Aristocrats | 13 | 23–26 | 46.9 | |
| Food | 12 | 20–23 | 46.5 | |
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 8 | 8–12 | 40.0 | |
| Golgari Aristocrats | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Abzan Aristocrats | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Mardu Aristocrats | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Izzet Blitzkrieg | 3 | 8–3 | 72.7 | 1 |
| Trickbind Dreadnought | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |
| Mono Blue Dreadnought | 29 | 78–35 | 69.0 | |
| Izzet Dreadnought | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Bant Control | 6 | 8–10 | 44.4 | |
| Enchantress | 6 | 5–12 | 29.4 | |
| Izzet Control | 6 | 7–9 | 43.8 | |
| Mono Black Control | 6 | 6–13 | 31.6 | |
| Selesnya Cats | 6 | 10–5 | 66.7 | 1 |
| Tempered Steel | 6 | 11–10 | 52.4 | |
| Four Color Counter Ghazi | 5 | 7–16 | 30.4 | |
| Actual Warp World | 4 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |
| Five Color Collected Conjuring | 4 | 5–11 | 31.3 | |
| Jeskai Control | 4 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |
| Jeskai Jeskai Ascendancy | 4 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Mardu Control | 4 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |
| Shrines | 4 | 1–8 | 11.1 | |
| Sultai Control | 4 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |
| Wildfire | 4 | 2–9 | 18.2 | |
| Borderpost Wildfire | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |
| Thryx-Wildfire | 2 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |
| Azorius Heroic | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |
| Dirty Kitty | 3 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |
| Traditional Reanimator | 3 | 1–8 | 11.1 | |
| Mono Black Reanimator | 30 | 59–56 | 51.3 | 2 |
| Rakdos Reanimator | 6 | 17–10 | 63.0 | |
| Dimir Reanimator | 5 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |
| Turbo Fog | 3 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |
| Blackpost | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Boros Heroic | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |
| Cycling Control | 2 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |
| Astral Slide | 26 | 26–40 | 39.4 | |
| Mono White Cats | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |
| Orzhov Angels | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Orzhov Control | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Rakdos Vampires | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Boros Control | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Chandra Nalaar | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Combo-Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Zur's Weirding | 29 | 70–54 | 56.5 | 3 |
| Mindcrank | 15 | 26–31 | 45.6 | |
| Dragoncrank | 22 | 59–24 | 71.1 | 2 |
| Curses | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |
| Shared Fate | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |
| Battle of Wits | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
| Yosei Vat | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
| Burning Vengeance | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Liliana's Contract | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Solar Flare | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Enchantments Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Guildgate Control | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |
| Jeskai Fake-Twin | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Mono Blue Architect | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Orzhov Vampires | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Salvage Titan | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Selesnya Humans | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Simic Madness | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 |