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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mono Black Devotion | 76 | 170–108 | 61.2 | 9 |
| Mono White Heroic | 73 | 132–114 | 53.7 | 3 |
| Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 56 | 132–48 | 73.3 | 13 |
| Affinity | 55 | 113–66 | 63.1 | 7 |
| Greenpost | 51 | 111–96 | 53.6 | 4 |
| Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 41 | 67–78 | 46.2 | 3 |
| Blazing Shoal Infect | 29 | 50–44 | 53.2 | 2 |
| Midrange | 28 | 26–62 | 29.5 | |
| Blink | 117 | 239–178 | 57.3 | 7 |
| Orzhov Blink | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Rakdos Midrange | 41 | 72–79 | 47.7 | 2 |
| Grenzo | 21 | 30–35 | 46.2 | |
| Big Red | 19 | 31–20 | 60.8 | 2 |
| Abzan Midrange | 13 | 8–20 | 28.6 | |
| Allies | 10 | 26–24 | 52.0 | |
| Esper Allies | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
| Jeskai Midrange | 10 | 8–14 | 36.4 | |
| Dimir Midrange | 9 | 12–22 | 35.3 | |
| Hero of Precinct One | 8 | 18–13 | 58.1 | 1 |
| Esper Hero | 4 | 12–8 | 60.0 | 1 |
| Five Color Hero | 3 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |
| Orzhov Hero | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Jund | 6 | 8–11 | 42.1 | |
| Orzhov Midrange | 6 | 12–10 | 54.5 | |
| Clerics | 5 | 11–6 | 64.7 | 1 |
| Enchantments Matter | 3 | 2–9 | 18.2 | |
| Lifegain Midrange | 3 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |
| Sultai Midrange | 3 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |
| Coinflips | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |
| Graveyard Value | 2 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Séance | 3 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |
| Varolz Dreadnought | 3 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Mutate | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Selesnya Midrange | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Simic Snow | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | 1 |
| Adventures | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Mardu Midrange | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
| Ordealbreak | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Enigmatic Incarnation | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Party | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| The Rock | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Golgari Citadel | 12 | 9–26 | 25.7 | |
| Worldgorger Dragon | 23 | 41–33 | 55.4 | 2 |
| Dimir Cycling Reanimator | 18 | 36–36 | 50.0 | 1 |
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 17 | 42–16 | 72.4 | 5 |
| Azorius Cloudpost Control | 16 | 29–32 | 47.5 | 2 |
| Combo | 10 | 10–21 | 32.3 | |
| Eggs | 40 | 50–76 | 39.7 | 1 |
| Necrotic Ooze Combo | 26 | 60–37 | 61.9 | 3 |
| Zubera Tribal | 12 | 3–21 | 12.5 | |
| Metalwork Colossus | 9 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |
| Storm | 8 | 4–17 | 19.0 | |
| Paradoxical Outcome Storm | 30 | 24–79 | 23.3 | 1 |
| Izzet Storm | 5 | 3–14 | 17.6 | |
| Song Storm | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Simic Storm | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Stormpost | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Dice Factory | 7 | 13–12 | 52.0 | |
| Ad Nauseam | 6 | 9–10 | 47.4 | |
| Ad Swanseam | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Dredge | 5 | 7–17 | 29.2 | |
| Enduring Ideal | 5 | 7–6 | 53.8 | |
| Heartless Summoning Combo | 5 | 5–8 | 38.5 | |
| Hypergenesis | 5 | 11–5 | 68.8 | |
| Taking Turns | 5 | 4–10 | 28.6 | |
| Izzet Ascension | 3 | 2–10 | 16.7 | |
| Jokulhaups Combo | 3 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Soulflayer | 3 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |
| New Perspectives | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Ominous Good | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Polymorph | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Quest for Ula's Temple | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Blue Architect | 9 | 9–14 | 39.1 | |
| Selesnya Legends | 9 | 15–19 | 44.1 | |
| Mono White Tokens | 7 | 9–15 | 37.5 | |
| Aggro-Control | 6 | 3–12 | 20.0 | |
| Izzet Tempo | 63 | 121–104 | 53.8 | 3 |
| Mono Blue Tempo | 29 | 55–39 | 58.5 | 2 |
| Mono Blue Faeries | 6 | 17–8 | 68.0 | |
| Dimir Tempo | 11 | 9–19 | 32.1 | |
| Dimir Faeries | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Wizards | 10 | 12–15 | 44.4 | |
| Ninjas | 4 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |
| Azorius Tempo | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Blue Madness | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Temur Madness | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Simic Madness | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Izzet Spells | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Lich Aggro-Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Aggro | 5 | 9–14 | 39.1 | |
| Elves | 64 | 131–101 | 56.5 | 4 |
| Red Deck Wins | 27 | 60–44 | 57.7 | 1 |
| AggroSlide | 21 | 53–26 | 67.1 | 3 |
| Zombies | 13 | 23–20 | 53.5 | 1 |
| White Weenie | 12 | 18–17 | 51.4 | 1 |
| Quest for the Holy Relic | 27 | 49–49 | 50.0 | |
| Soldiers | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Kithkin | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Rakdos Aggro | 11 | 19–14 | 57.6 | 1 |
| Merfolk | 8 | 15–13 | 53.6 | |
| Mono Green Stompy | 7 | 7–13 | 35.0 | |
| Rogues | 7 | 9–12 | 42.9 | |
| Naya Zoo | 6 | 13–17 | 43.3 | |
| Werewolves | 6 | 11–10 | 52.4 | |
| Goblins | 4 | 9–9 | 50.0 | |
| Gruul Aggro | 3 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |
| Gruul Landfall | 4 | 7–7 | 50.0 | |
| Pirates | 3 | 0–8 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Black Aggro | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Knights | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Mono Red Swarm | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Selesnya Little Kid | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Slivers | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Tempered Steel | 5 | 13–10 | 56.5 | |
| Abzan Aristocrats | 4 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |
| Golgari Aristocrats | 4 | 5–8 | 38.5 | |
| Hexproof | 4 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |
| Mono White Cloudpost Control | 4 | 2–10 | 16.7 | |
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |
| Ramp | 3 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
| Rofellos Ramp | 40 | 91–59 | 60.7 | 3 |
| Wild Pair | 2 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Domain | 8 | 12–21 | 36.4 | |
| Villainous Wealth | 5 | 5–14 | 26.3 | |
| Applejacks | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Defenders | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Simic Infect | 3 | 8–4 | 66.7 | |
| Traditional Reanimator | 3 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |
| Mono Black Reanimator | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Arcum's Not Astrolabe | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Azorius Heroic | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Control | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Stax | 35 | 53–49 | 52.0 | 2 |
| Esper Control | 23 | 23–43 | 34.8 | |
| Ponza | 12 | 21–24 | 46.7 | |
| Mill | 10 | 10–26 | 27.8 | |
| Turbo Fog | 10 | 16–18 | 47.1 | |
| Azorius Control | 9 | 6–20 | 23.1 | |
| Cawblade | 45 | 80–86 | 48.2 | 2 |
| Mono Black Control | 9 | 12–21 | 36.4 | 1 |
| Grixis Control | 6 | 10–12 | 45.5 | |
| Cruel Control | 5 | 9–7 | 56.3 | |
| Bant Control | 5 | 11–10 | 52.4 | |
| Dimir Control | 4 | 1–9 | 10.0 | |
| Jeskai Control | 3 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |
| Mardu Control | 3 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |
| Mono White Control | 3 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |
| Life is Ez | 36 | 57–51 | 52.8 | 5 |
| Izzet Control | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Runeflare | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Cycling Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Astral Slide | 5 | 7–6 | 53.8 | |
| Dynavolt Tower | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Guildgate Control | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Orzhov Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Gruul Madness | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Jeskai Jeskai Ascendancy | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Oops All Spells | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Selesnya Cats | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |
| Wildfire | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Borderpost Wildfire | 34 | 67–66 | 50.4 | 3 |
| Thryx-Wildfire | 3 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |
| Aggro-Combo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Hushnought | 21 | 39–32 | 54.9 | 1 |
| Burn | 13 | 22–17 | 56.4 | |
| Izzet Blitzkrieg | 12 | 15–35 | 30.0 | |
| Liquimetal Fishing | 11 | 21–23 | 47.7 | |
| Combo Goblins | 2 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Goblin Persist | 13 | 27–17 | 61.4 | 1 |
| Trickbind Dreadnought | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Blue Dreadnought | 6 | 6–10 | 37.5 | |
| Izzet Dreadnought | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Boros Heroic | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Boros Legends Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Combo-Control | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Plasma Swans | 27 | 53–39 | 57.6 | 2 |
| Mindcrank | 21 | 39–35 | 52.7 | 3 |
| Zur's Weirding | 9 | 19–9 | 67.9 | 1 |
| Hive Mind | 8 | 16–16 | 50.0 | 1 |
| Lich's Mastery | 8 | 17–15 | 53.1 | |
| Battle of Wits | 4 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |
| Solar Flare | 4 | 8–4 | 66.7 | 1 |
| Curses | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Pickles | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Shared Fate | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Equipment Aggro | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Grixis Dragons | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Locus Awakening | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Black Vampires | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Orzhov Legends | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Rakdos Vampires | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Shrines | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Simic Post | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Sultai Ultimatum | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 |