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, 19 hours.
Congratulations to thewatchwander, winner of The Penny Dreadful 500 (Season 34)
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Leaderboard
Archetypes
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Deck Wins | 54 | 109–83 | 56.8 | 5 |
| Mono Red Devotion | 8 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |
| Elves | 41 | 73–73 | 50.0 | 1 |
| High Tide | 38 | 56–50 | 52.8 | 2 |
| Solar Flare | 29 | 49–34 | 59.0 | 2 |
| Golgari Infect | 26 | 38–40 | 48.7 | 1 |
| Simic Post | 26 | 58–45 | 56.3 | 4 |
| Mono Black Vampires | 23 | 45–31 | 59.2 | 1 |
| Orzhov Legends | 20 | 30–18 | 62.5 | 2 |
| Azorius Wave | 19 | 35–25 | 58.3 | 3 |
| Tameshi Bloom | 18 | 34–22 | 60.7 | 1 |
| Cloudpost Wave Blink | 17 | 36–19 | 65.5 | 3 |
| Gyruda | 17 | 24–26 | 48.0 | 1 |
| Tempered Steel | 16 | 26–28 | 48.1 | 2 |
| AggroSlide | 13 | 22–20 | 52.4 | 1 |
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 12 | 18–20 | 47.4 | |
| Midrange | 11 | 12–21 | 36.4 | |
| Abzan Midrange | 31 | 51–38 | 57.3 | 3 |
| Death Cloud | 27 | 56–47 | 54.4 | 3 |
| Graveyard Value | 22 | 36–42 | 46.2 | 1 |
| Fires of Invention | 15 | 14–33 | 29.8 | |
| Rakdos Midrange | 8 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |
| Big Red | 5 | 4–11 | 26.7 | |
| Mono Black Midrange | 5 | 2–11 | 15.4 | |
| Mono Black Devotion | 10 | 11–17 | 39.3 | |
| Heartless Summoning Stompy | 4 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |
| Angels | 3 | 2–11 | 15.4 | |
| Mono White Angels | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Jund | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |
| Sultai Midrange | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Artifact Midrange | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |
| Blink | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Grenzo | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Illness in the Ranks | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Naya Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Goblins | 10 | 10–13 | 43.5 | |
| Mono Green Stompy | 10 | 21–19 | 52.5 | |
| Battle of Wits | 9 | 12–23 | 34.3 | |
| Blazing Shoal Combo | 9 | 16–10 | 61.5 | |
| Worldgorger Dragon | 8 | 14–18 | 43.8 | |
| Izzet Blitzkrieg | 7 | 10–7 | 58.8 | |
| Orzhov Wave | 7 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |
| Hazoret Storm | 6 | 11–9 | 55.0 | |
| Mono White Heroic | 6 | 15–9 | 62.5 | 1 |
| Rakdos Aggro | 6 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Selesnya Heroic | 6 | 4–12 | 25.0 | |
| Familiars | 5 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Five Color Hero | 5 | 8–14 | 36.4 | |
| Food | 5 | 3–15 | 16.7 | |
| Affinity | 4 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |
| Burn | 4 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |
| Carth Superfriends | 4 | 8–6 | 57.1 | |
| Dragonstorm | 4 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |
| Mono Black Aggro | 4 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |
| Selesnya Tokens | 4 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |
| Zur's Weirding | 4 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |
| Boros Heroic | 3 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |
| Control | 3 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |
| Dimir Control | 27 | 30–24 | 55.6 | 4 |
| Seasons Past Control | 25 | 32–58 | 35.6 | |
| Esper Control | 22 | 28–23 | 54.9 | 2 |
| Stax | 11 | 20–25 | 44.4 | 1 |
| Azorius Control | 10 | 16–13 | 55.2 | 1 |
| Orzhov Control | 9 | 9–12 | 42.9 | |
| Ponza | 8 | 12–17 | 41.4 | |
| Bant Control | 6 | 5–16 | 23.8 | |
| Cloudpost Control | 5 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |
| Selesnya Cloudpost Control | 38 | 102–48 | 68.0 | 7 |
| Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 12 | 21–19 | 52.5 | |
| Izzet Cloudpost Control | 11 | 5–17 | 22.7 | |
| Mardu Control | 4 | 9–4 | 69.2 | 1 |
| Pox | 4 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |
| Grixis Control | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Cruel Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Izzet Control | 3 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |
| Sultai Control | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Mill | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Mono Blue Control | 2 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |
| Prison | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Enchantress | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Cycling Control | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Turbo Fog | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |
| Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 3 | 7–8 | 46.7 | |
| Greenpost | 3 | 9–4 | 69.2 | |
| Hive Mind | 3 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
| Legends Aggro | 3 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Boros Legends Aggro | 29 | 44–70 | 38.6 | |
| Selesnya Legends Aggro | 3 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |
| Metalwork Colossus | 3 | 9–5 | 64.3 | |
| Upheaval Colossus | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Oriss Genesis | 3 | 5–2 | 71.4 | 1 |
| Traditional Reanimator | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Wildfire | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Aggro-Control | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
| Mono Blue Tempo | 16 | 43–20 | 68.3 | 1 |
| Wizards | 9 | 11–10 | 52.4 | |
| Izzet Tempo | 4 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |
| Dimir Tempo | 3 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Dimir Faeries | 3 | 7–4 | 63.6 | |
| Simic Flash | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Azorius Skies | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Izzet Spells | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Blazing Shoal Infect | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Equipment Aggro | 2 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |
| Goblin Persist | 2 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
| Gruul Post | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |
| Hypergenesis | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Izzet Dragons | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Naya Zoo | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |
| Rakdos Aristocrats | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Rakdos Vampires | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Ad Nauseam | 1 | |||
| Belcher | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |
| Boros Aggro | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Burning Vengeance | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Defenders | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Domain | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Eggs | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Eldrazipost | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Enduring Ideal | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Gruul Aggro | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Knights | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Liquimetal Fishing | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Merfolk | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Blue Architect | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Naya Hero | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Polymorph | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Possibility Storm | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Selesnya Cats | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Shared Fate | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |
| Slivers | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Soulflayer | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Temur Madness | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| White Weenie | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Kithkin | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Soldiers | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Zombies | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 |