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.
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Leaderboard
Archetypes
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeskai Jokulhaups Control | 87 | 164–103 | 61.4 | 10 |
| Oops All Spells | 63 | 112–86 | 56.6 | 3 |
| Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 58 | 116–49 | 70.3 | 10 |
| Midrange | 43 | 40–97 | 29.2 | 1 |
| Jund | 156 | 268–277 | 49.2 | 4 |
| Simic Snow | 90 | 246–122 | 66.8 | 17 |
| Dimir Midrange | 51 | 72–86 | 45.6 | 2 |
| Fake-Rack | 34 | 63–80 | 44.1 | 1 |
| Mono Black Midrange | 32 | 66–55 | 54.5 | 2 |
| Mono Black Devotion | 184 | 338–280 | 54.7 | 10 |
| The Rock | 25 | 42–44 | 48.8 | |
| Golgari Citadel | 3 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |
| Fires of Invention | 20 | 24–40 | 37.5 | 1 |
| Orzhov Midrange | 20 | 31–31 | 50.0 | 2 |
| Rakdos Midrange | 19 | 32–36 | 47.1 | 1 |
| Graveyard Value | 18 | 26–38 | 40.6 | |
| Varolz Dreadnought | 65 | 133–91 | 59.4 | 6 |
| Séance | 7 | 4–10 | 28.6 | |
| Big Red | 17 | 34–29 | 54.0 | 1 |
| Lifegain Midrange | 17 | 20–42 | 32.3 | |
| Sultai Midrange | 17 | 25–28 | 47.2 | |
| Mardu Midrange | 13 | 32–16 | 66.7 | 2 |
| Heartless Summoning Stompy | 12 | 13–21 | 38.2 | |
| Treefolk | 12 | 7–17 | 29.2 | |
| Abzan Midrange | 5 | 8–11 | 42.1 | |
| Clerics | 5 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |
| Allies | 4 | 7–10 | 41.2 | |
| BRGW Allies | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
| Esper Allies | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Mono White Allies | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Naya Midrange | 4 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |
| Artifact Midrange | 3 | 0–8 | 0.0 | |
| Coinflips | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Death Cloud | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Enchantments Matter | 3 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |
| Blink | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |
| Wave Blink | 8 | 10–21 | 32.3 | |
| Azorius Wave | 51 | 103–85 | 54.8 | 2 |
| Bant Wave | 37 | 88–49 | 64.2 | 6 |
| Abzan Wave | 18 | 38–22 | 63.3 | 2 |
| Orzhov Wave | 10 | 14–8 | 63.6 | |
| Jeskai Midrange | 2 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |
| Selesnya Midrange | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Toughness Matters | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Anti-Persecution | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |
| Card Advantage White | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Elementals | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Legends Midrange | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Orzhov Legends | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
| Boros Legends Midrange | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| White Jund | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Dirty Kitty | 41 | 82–67 | 55.0 | 3 |
| Mono White Heroic | 36 | 77–48 | 61.6 | 7 |
| Hexproof | 25 | 28–42 | 40.0 | |
| Combo | 20 | 10–48 | 17.2 | |
| Dredge | 77 | 117–119 | 49.6 | 1 |
| Chain of Acid | 70 | 88–99 | 47.1 | |
| Taking Turns | 55 | 65–78 | 45.5 | 2 |
| GreenTwin | 30 | 57–52 | 52.3 | 1 |
| Tibalt's Trickery | 24 | 19–55 | 25.7 | |
| Izzet Ascension | 17 | 24–31 | 43.6 | |
| Restore Balance | 15 | 11–34 | 24.4 | |
| Oriss Genesis | 13 | 33–20 | 62.3 | 1 |
| Storm | 12 | 5–31 | 13.9 | |
| Dimir Tendrils | 150 | 319–247 | 56.4 | 8 |
| Dragonstorm | 49 | 66–109 | 37.7 | |
| Izzet Storm | 40 | 38–99 | 27.7 | |
| Swath Storm | 3 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |
| Simic Storm | 31 | 65–51 | 56.0 | 1 |
| Citadel Storm | 18 | 20–34 | 37.0 | |
| Paradoxical Outcome Storm | 16 | 11–41 | 21.2 | |
| Song Storm | 2 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |
| Enduring Ideal | 11 | 23–17 | 57.5 | 1 |
| Intruder Alarm | 10 | 14–17 | 45.2 | |
| Calibrated Blast | 8 | 11–15 | 42.3 | |
| Eggs | 8 | 18–14 | 56.3 | |
| Jokulhaups Combo | 8 | 4–13 | 23.5 | |
| Heartless Summoning Combo | 7 | 8–14 | 36.4 | |
| Oops All Lands | 7 | 7–12 | 36.8 | |
| Maniac Combo | 6 | 13–13 | 50.0 | |
| Hypergenesis | 5 | 3–13 | 18.8 | |
| Polymorph | 5 | 4–11 | 26.7 | |
| Dubious Challenge | 3 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |
| Storm Herald | 3 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |
| Quest for Ula's Temple | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |
| Metalwork Colossus | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Upheaval Colossus | 25 | 36–34 | 51.4 | |
| Anvil Colossus | 4 | 7–8 | 46.7 | |
| Ominous Good | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Reanimator | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Worldgorger Dragon | 11 | 13–27 | 32.5 | |
| Double Dragon | 4 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |
| Traditional Reanimator | 4 | 8–10 | 44.4 | |
| Rakdos Reanimator | 117 | 290–199 | 59.3 | 9 |
| Mono Black Reanimator | 88 | 197–116 | 62.9 | 10 |
| Grixis Reanimator | 13 | 29–18 | 61.7 | 1 |
| Dimir Reanimator | 5 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |
| Dimir Cycling Reanimator | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |
| Aggro-Combo | 17 | 28–28 | 50.0 | |
| Burn | 53 | 78–94 | 45.3 | 3 |
| Aristocrats | 31 | 57–49 | 53.8 | 3 |
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 31 | 63–51 | 55.3 | 2 |
| Boros Bombardment | 29 | 72–40 | 64.3 | |
| Rakdos Aristocrats | 12 | 14–15 | 48.3 | |
| Abzan Aristocrats | 9 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |
| Golgari Aristocrats | 6 | 8–9 | 47.1 | |
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 3 | 2–9 | 18.2 | |
| Liquimetal Fishing | 23 | 28–39 | 41.8 | |
| Izzet Blitzkrieg | 12 | 10–19 | 34.5 | |
| Hushnought | 9 | 16–11 | 59.3 | 1 |
| Infect | 9 | 15–23 | 39.5 | |
| Simic Infect | 83 | 141–133 | 51.5 | 4 |
| Blazing Shoal Infect | 30 | 48–56 | 46.2 | |
| Golgari Infect | 7 | 6–17 | 26.1 | |
| Trickbind Dreadnought | 4 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |
| Mono Blue Dreadnought | 16 | 22–22 | 50.0 | |
| Turbo Myth | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Grixis Jokulhaups Control | 16 | 26–23 | 53.1 | 1 |
| Ramp | 15 | 19–28 | 40.4 | |
| Carth Superfriends | 24 | 26–43 | 37.7 | 1 |
| Jund Carth | 15 | 15–21 | 41.7 | 1 |
| Applejacks | 9 | 19–13 | 59.4 | |
| Cloudpost Ramp | 9 | 7–16 | 30.4 | |
| Greenpost | 57 | 87–106 | 45.1 | 2 |
| Eldrazipost | 7 | 3–22 | 12.0 | |
| Arcum's Not Astrolabe | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Gruul Post | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Defenders | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Boros Heroic | 14 | 22–29 | 43.1 | |
| Goblin Persist | 12 | 24–18 | 57.1 | |
| Jund Jokulhaups Control | 12 | 26–16 | 61.9 | 1 |
| Control | 8 | 8–14 | 36.4 | |
| Azorius Control | 128 | 205–197 | 51.0 | 10 |
| Cawblade | 22 | 24–20 | 54.5 | |
| Dimir Control | 95 | 162–131 | 55.3 | 5 |
| Esper Control | 67 | 96–140 | 40.7 | |
| Seasons Past Control | 48 | 73–98 | 42.7 | |
| Pox | 42 | 50–81 | 38.2 | 1 |
| Ponza | 36 | 63–72 | 46.7 | 1 |
| Grixis Control | 31 | 42–47 | 47.2 | 1 |
| Cruel Control | 6 | 4–12 | 25.0 | |
| Demonic Rising | 18 | 26–24 | 52.0 | 2 |
| Izzet Control | 18 | 31–30 | 50.8 | 1 |
| Sultai Control | 15 | 19–31 | 38.0 | |
| Jeskai Control | 13 | 12–25 | 32.4 | |
| Mill | 11 | 20–22 | 47.6 | |
| Mono Black Control | 10 | 13–16 | 44.8 | 1 |
| Runeflare | 10 | 13–32 | 28.9 | |
| Turbo Fog | 10 | 5–23 | 17.9 | |
| Stax | 9 | 21–18 | 53.8 | 1 |
| Five Color Control | 8 | 6–15 | 28.6 | |
| Five Color Collected Conjuring | 4 | 3–9 | 25.0 | |
| Shrines | 3 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |
| Guildgate Control | 8 | 10–16 | 38.5 | |
| Bant Control | 6 | 8–9 | 47.1 | |
| Mono Blue Control | 6 | 2–9 | 18.2 | |
| Prison | 5 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |
| Enchantress | 24 | 16–34 | 32.0 | |
| Boros Control | 4 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |
| Mono White Control | 4 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |
| Life is Ez | 24 | 37–25 | 59.7 | 2 |
| Orzhov Control | 4 | 0–9 | 0.0 | |
| Chandra Nalaar | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Dragon Control | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
| Izzet Dragons | 9 | 8–20 | 28.6 | |
| Enchantments Control | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Four Color Counter Ghazi | 2 | 6–3 | 66.7 | |
| Cloudpost Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 46 | 94–80 | 54.0 | 2 |
| Azorius Cloudpost Control | 10 | 11–17 | 39.3 | |
| Blackpost | 10 | 21–23 | 47.7 | |
| Mono White Cloudpost Control | 4 | 8–5 | 61.5 | |
| Izzet Cloudpost Control | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |
| Wildfire | 8 | 14–16 | 46.7 | |
| Borderpost Wildfire | 8 | 11–10 | 52.4 | |
| Aggro-Control | 7 | 8–13 | 38.1 | |
| Dimir Tempo | 147 | 219–218 | 50.1 | 6 |
| Dimir Faeries | 10 | 18–24 | 42.9 | |
| Izzet Tempo | 95 | 173–151 | 53.4 | 4 |
| Mono Blue Tempo | 72 | 111–107 | 50.9 | 4 |
| Mono Blue Faeries | 6 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |
| Ninjas | 31 | 45–71 | 38.8 | |
| Simic Flash | 24 | 47–41 | 53.4 | |
| Azorius Skies | 14 | 21–35 | 37.5 | |
| Izzet Spells | 5 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Lich Aggro-Control | 5 | 6–7 | 46.2 | 1 |
| Sultai Tempo | 5 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |
| Azorius Tempo | 3 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |
| Blue Madness | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Simic Madness | 4 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |
| Wizards | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 7 | 8–8 | 50.0 | |
| Actual Warp World | 6 | 7–13 | 35.0 | |
| Astral Slide | 6 | 11–10 | 52.4 | |
| Aggro | 5 | 13–8 | 61.9 | 1 |
| Red Deck Wins | 90 | 212–137 | 60.7 | 10 |
| Mono Red Devotion | 3 | 9–4 | 69.2 | |
| Prisoner | 3 | 7–8 | 46.7 | |
| Zombies | 77 | 183–108 | 62.9 | 4 |
| White Weenie | 54 | 116–87 | 57.1 | 4 |
| Quest for the Holy Relic | 11 | 11–28 | 28.2 | |
| Soldiers | 3 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |
| Chroma White | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Goblins | 44 | 82–68 | 54.7 | 1 |
| Gruul Aggro | 41 | 73–65 | 52.9 | 2 |
| Gruul Landfall | 4 | 15–5 | 75.0 | 1 |
| Elves | 37 | 65–76 | 46.1 | 2 |
| Mono Green Stompy | 37 | 57–65 | 46.7 | 2 |
| Mono Black Aggro | 29 | 50–46 | 52.1 | 1 |
| AggroSlide | 21 | 36–39 | 48.0 | |
| Boros Aggro | 14 | 30–25 | 54.5 | 1 |
| Naya Zoo | 10 | 7–22 | 24.1 | |
| Selesnya Little Kid | 10 | 15–19 | 44.1 | |
| Selesnya Counters | 4 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |
| Rogues | 8 | 8–16 | 33.3 | |
| Slivers | 8 | 2–22 | 8.3 | |
| Rats | 7 | 5–11 | 31.3 | |
| Mono Red Swarm | 6 | 14–7 | 66.7 | 1 |
| Rakdos Aggro | 6 | 6–11 | 35.3 | |
| Madness | 5 | 9–6 | 60.0 | |
| Rakdos Madness | 143 | 281–230 | 55.0 | 12 |
| Gruul Madness | 14 | 13–25 | 34.2 | |
| Golgari Madness | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |
| Jund Madness | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Merfolk | 5 | 5–16 | 23.8 | |
| Artifact Aggro | 4 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |
| Tempered Steel | 55 | 114–62 | 64.8 | 9 |
| Salvage Titan | 18 | 42–27 | 60.9 | 2 |
| Affinity | 17 | 21–30 | 41.2 | 1 |
| Mono Blue Architect | 4 | 10–4 | 71.4 | |
| Knights | 4 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |
| Tokens | 3 | 4–11 | 26.7 | |
| Mono White Tokens | 49 | 95–61 | 60.9 | 3 |
| Selesnya Tokens | 11 | 22–29 | 43.1 | |
| Orzhov Tokens | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |
| Pirates | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Werewolves | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Minotaurs | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Warriors | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Combo-Control | 4 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |
| Curses | 40 | 48–54 | 47.1 | 1 |
| Zur's Weirding | 33 | 40–70 | 36.4 | 1 |
| Solar Flare | 12 | 25–20 | 55.6 | 2 |
| Plasma Swans | 6 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |
| Burning Vengeance | 4 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |
| Battle of Wits | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |
| Cruel Combo-Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Hive Mind | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Liliana's Contract | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Resurgent Belief | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Swarm Intelligence | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Naya Fake-Twin | 4 | 8–11 | 42.1 | |
| Selesnya Heroic | 3 | 1–10 | 9.1 | |
| Enigmatic Incarnation | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Illusions | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |
| Mono Black Vampires | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |
| Equipment Aggro | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Mono White Cats | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Orzhov Vampires | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |
| Rakdos Vampires | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |
| Selesnya Cats | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Unclassified | 1 |