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, 4 days.
Decks
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Leaderboard
Archetypes
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midrange | 43 | 43–77 | 35.8 | |
| Abzan Midrange | 61 | 92–95 | 49.2 | 3 |
| Artifact Midrange | 51 | 73–82 | 47.1 | 5 |
| Fires of Invention | 44 | 68–62 | 52.3 | 2 |
| Blink | 31 | 61–29 | 67.8 | 5 |
| Orzhov Blink | 114 | 300–121 | 71.3 | 21 |
| Death Cloud | 31 | 44–57 | 43.6 | 1 |
| Orzhov Midrange | 30 | 41–54 | 43.2 | 1 |
| Big Red | 24 | 52–34 | 60.5 | 1 |
| The Rock | 20 | 27–35 | 43.5 | |
| Golgari Citadel | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |
| Graveyard Value | 18 | 14–39 | 26.4 | 1 |
| Toughness Matters | 14 | 19–29 | 39.6 | |
| Selesnya Midrange | 11 | 6–14 | 30.0 | |
| Temur Ascendancy | 10 | 9–16 | 36.0 | |
| Elementals | 8 | 9–16 | 36.0 | |
| Legends Midrange | 7 | 11–15 | 42.3 | |
| Orzhov Legends | 12 | 16–19 | 45.7 | |
| Selesnya Legends | 7 | 10–9 | 52.6 | |
| Mardu Legends | 3 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Boros Legends Midrange | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
| Naya Midrange | 7 | 11–9 | 55.0 | |
| Sultai Midrange | 7 | 6–10 | 37.5 | |
| Dimir Midrange | 6 | 9–9 | 50.0 | |
| Enchantments Matter | 6 | 6–10 | 37.5 | |
| Jeskai Midrange | 6 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |
| Grenzo | 5 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |
| Jund | 5 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |
| Rakdos Midrange | 5 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |
| Heartless Summoning Stompy | 4 | 7–5 | 58.3 | |
| Mardu Midrange | 4 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |
| Allies | 3 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |
| Esper Allies | 3 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Orzhov Allies | 2 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |
| Adventures | 2 | 6–3 | 66.7 | |
| Fake-Rack | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Lifegain Midrange | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |
| Mythic Colossification | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Zur the Enchanter | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |
| Anti-Persecution | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Clerics | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Mono Black Midrange | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Necro Midrange | 64 | 98–72 | 57.6 | 5 |
| Citadel Storm | 39 | 65–72 | 47.4 | 1 |
| Aggro-Control | 34 | 56–40 | 58.3 | 1 |
| Izzet Spells | 36 | 46–52 | 46.9 | 1 |
| Ninjas | 11 | 14–10 | 58.3 | 1 |
| Mono Blue Tempo | 8 | 6–9 | 40.0 | |
| Izzet Tempo | 6 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Wizards | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Azorius Tempo | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Sultai Tempo | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
| Dimir Tempo | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Dimir Faeries | 20 | 34–30 | 53.1 | 1 |
| Ramp | 24 | 26–38 | 40.6 | |
| Domain | 5 | 6–13 | 31.6 | |
| Carth Superfriends | 4 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |
| Applejacks | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |
| Defenders | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Combo | 21 | 9–42 | 17.6 | |
| Midnight Mass | 80 | 155–89 | 63.5 | 15 |
| Blazing Shoal Combo | 41 | 60–70 | 46.2 | 1 |
| Restore Balance | 38 | 41–65 | 38.7 | 1 |
| Hypergenesis | 20 | 31–32 | 49.2 | 2 |
| Necro Combo | 16 | 23–21 | 52.3 | 1 |
| Metalwork Colossus | 15 | 25–20 | 55.6 | |
| Anvil Colossus | 10 | 16–9 | 64.0 | |
| Tibalt's Trickery | 9 | 10–15 | 40.0 | |
| Gyruda | 8 | 15–16 | 48.4 | |
| Warp World | 8 | 7–14 | 33.3 | |
| Belcher | 6 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |
| Izzet Ascension | 6 | 2–9 | 18.2 | |
| Maniac Combo | 6 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |
| Soulflayer | 6 | 16–7 | 69.6 | |
| Reanim8 Rack | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Enduring Ideal | 5 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |
| Calibrated Blast | 4 | 6–2 | 75.0 | 1 |
| Seismic Swans | 4 | 2–9 | 18.2 | |
| Storm Herald | 4 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |
| Eggs | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| New Perspectives | 3 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |
| Chain of Acid | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Green Stormless Storm | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Polymorph | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Possibility Storm | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Dice Factory | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Dredge | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Dubious Challenge | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Equipment Aggro | 16 | 35–25 | 58.3 | 1 |
| Food | 16 | 19–31 | 38.0 | |
| Aggro | 14 | 18–21 | 46.2 | |
| Red Deck Wins | 60 | 77–80 | 49.0 | 5 |
| White Weenie | 37 | 56–48 | 53.8 | 2 |
| Soldiers | 4 | 12–7 | 63.2 | |
| Kithkin | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Goblins | 29 | 49–37 | 57.0 | 1 |
| Knights | 21 | 35–27 | 56.5 | 3 |
| Mono Green Stompy | 19 | 25–34 | 42.4 | |
| Gruul Aggro | 16 | 20–25 | 44.4 | |
| Elves | 14 | 13–25 | 34.2 | 1 |
| Mono Red Eldrazi | 14 | 39–21 | 65.0 | |
| AggroSlide | 12 | 13–19 | 40.6 | 1 |
| Zombies | 11 | 10–19 | 34.5 | |
| Artifact Aggro | 10 | 17–18 | 48.6 | 1 |
| Affinity | 14 | 9–17 | 34.6 | |
| Mono Blue Architect | 8 | 20–10 | 66.7 | 1 |
| Tempered Steel | 8 | 8–14 | 36.4 | |
| Rakdos Aggro | 9 | 11–13 | 45.8 | |
| Rats | 8 | 7–17 | 29.2 | |
| Pirates | 7 | 12–17 | 41.4 | |
| Mono Black Aggro | 6 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Legends Aggro | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Boros Legends Aggro | 50 | 103–78 | 56.9 | 4 |
| Selesnya Legends Aggro | 4 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |
| Tokens | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Selesnya Tokens | 4 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |
| Mono White Tokens | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Humans | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Boros Humans | 2 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Selesnya Humans | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Merfolk | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Red Swarm | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Boros Heroic | 11 | 24–11 | 68.6 | 2 |
| Mono Black Vampires | 11 | 7–22 | 24.1 | |
| Astral Slide | 5 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
| Burn | 5 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |
| Necro Burn | 33 | 37–63 | 37.0 | |
| Combo-Control | 5 | 10–8 | 55.6 | |
| Hive Mind | 31 | 47–44 | 51.6 | 1 |
| Resurgent Belief | 23 | 30–42 | 41.7 | 1 |
| Curses | 12 | 20–17 | 54.1 | |
| Battle of Wits | 9 | 13–17 | 43.3 | |
| Plasma Swans | 8 | 16–8 | 66.7 | 2 |
| Hedron Alignment | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Liliana's Contract | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Control | 5 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |
| Esper Control | 89 | 160–123 | 56.5 | 10 |
| Seasons Past Control | 49 | 115–91 | 55.8 | 3 |
| Dimir Control | 39 | 71–54 | 56.8 | 1 |
| Azorius Control | 26 | 46–36 | 56.1 | 1 |
| Ponza | 25 | 44–32 | 57.9 | 2 |
| Dragon Control | 21 | 38–33 | 53.5 | 1 |
| Stax | 13 | 18–17 | 51.4 | 1 |
| Grixis Control | 11 | 7–22 | 24.1 | |
| Cruel Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Orzhov Control | 8 | 8–11 | 42.1 | |
| Sultai Control | 6 | 10–12 | 45.5 | |
| Prison | 5 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |
| Enchantress | 47 | 79–62 | 56.0 | 4 |
| Turbo Fog | 5 | 3–10 | 23.1 | |
| Bant Control | 4 | 3–13 | 18.8 | |
| Mill | 4 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |
| Mono White Control | 4 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |
| Life is Ez | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Five Color Control | 3 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |
| Five Color Collected Conjuring | 5 | 10–7 | 58.8 | 1 |
| Last Stand Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mardu Control | 3 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |
| Enchantments Control | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Boros Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Mono Blue Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Selesnya Cats | 4 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
| Traditional Reanimator | 4 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |
| Grixis Reanimator | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Wildfire | 4 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |
| Borderpost Wildfire | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
| Azorius Spirits | 3 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |
| Rakdos Aristocrats | 3 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Boros Hero | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |
| Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Hateful Auras | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Illusions | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |
| Wild Pair | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Abzan Aristocrats | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Enigmatic Incarnation | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Goblin Persist | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Golgari Aristocrats | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Izzet Blitzkrieg | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
| Mardu Aristocrats | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |
| Naya Hero | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 |