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 2 days, 20 hours.
Congratulations to thewatchwander, winner of The Penny Dreadful 500 (Season 34)
Decks
Archetypes
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ |
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| Fires of Invention | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 |
| Aggro | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | ||
| Red Deck Wins | 3 | 8–7 | 53.3 | 1 | 1 |
| AggroSlide | 2 | 8–3 | 72.7 | 0 | 1 |
| Merfolk | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | ||
| Zombies | 1 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 |
| Aggro-Control | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | ||
| Dimir Tempo | 3 | 10–5 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 |
| Izzet Tempo | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | ||
| Mono Blue Tempo | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | ||
| Azorius Cloudpost Control | 1 | 6–2 | 75.0 | 0 | 1 |
| Azorius Wave | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | ||
| Bant Control | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | ||
| Clerics | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | ||
| Esper Hero | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | ||
| Goblin Persist | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | ||
| Graveyard Value | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | ||
| Hellion Whip | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | ||
| Izzet Ascension | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | ||
| Izzet Blitzkrieg | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | ||
| Mardu Midrange | 1 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 |
| Neoform Hermit | 1 | 5–2 | 71.4 | 0 | 1 |
| Orzhov Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | ||
| Orzhov Tokens | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | ||
| Rakdos Midrange | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | ||
| Storm Herald | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | ||
| Stuffy Doll | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | ||
| The Rock | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | ||
| Turbo Fog | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | ||
| Upheaval Colossus | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 |