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 8 weeks, 3 days.
Decks
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Leaderboard
Archetypes
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mono White Heroic | 37 | 112–52 | 68.3 | 7 |
| Worldgorger Dragon | 34 | 68–42 | 61.8 | 2 |
| Midrange | 29 | 33–56 | 37.1 | |
| Temur Ascendancy | 67 | 178–113 | 61.2 | 7 |
| Blink | 17 | 29–28 | 50.9 | |
| Lifegain Midrange | 15 | 18–37 | 32.7 | |
| Elementals | 14 | 32–25 | 56.1 | 1 |
| Graveyard Value | 12 | 26–25 | 51.0 | |
| Selvala Morningstar | 9 | 20–14 | 58.8 | |
| -1/-1 Counters | 8 | 7–26 | 21.2 | |
| Grenzo | 8 | 17–15 | 53.1 | |
| Jund | 5 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |
| Abzan Midrange | 3 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |
| Fake-Rack | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |
| Mono Black Midrange | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Orzhov Midrange | 3 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |
| Allies | 2 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |
| Orzhov Allies | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Esper Allies | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 |
| Illness in the Ranks | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |
| Treefolk | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |
| Dimir Midrange | 1 | 3–0 | 100.0 | |
| Mardu Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Sultai Midrange | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Ramp | 23 | 17–44 | 27.9 | |
| Rofellos Ramp | 21 | 47–41 | 53.4 | 1 |
| Wild Pair | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |
| Control | 8 | 9–17 | 34.6 | |
| Jeskai Control | 23 | 63–25 | 71.6 | 5 |
| Dragon Control | 19 | 43–30 | 58.9 | 1 |
| Mono Black Control | 17 | 30–32 | 48.4 | 1 |
| Dimir Control | 16 | 17–30 | 36.2 | |
| Dreadful Inspiration | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Azorius Control | 12 | 17–24 | 41.5 | |
| Ponza | 9 | 16–17 | 48.5 | 1 |
| Dynavolt Tower | 5 | 0–16 | 0.0 | |
| Sultai Control | 4 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |
| Turbo Fog | 4 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |
| Mono Blue Control | 3 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Bant Control | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
| Cloudpost Control | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
| Esper Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Guildgate Control | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Izzet Control | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |
| Mill | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Stax | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Birthday Stax | 8 | 10–8 | 55.6 | |
| Pollute the Planet | 4 | 7–5 | 58.3 | 1 |
| Constellation | 7 | 14–14 | 50.0 | |
| Traditional Reanimator | 7 | 5–16 | 23.8 | |
| Astral Slide | 6 | 11–9 | 55.0 | |
| Simic Madness | 6 | 14–14 | 50.0 | 1 |
| Aggro | 5 | 12–7 | 63.2 | |
| Red Deck Wins | 50 | 117–75 | 60.9 | 2 |
| Mono Red Devotion | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Zombies | 39 | 89–52 | 63.1 | 7 |
| Goblins | 24 | 35–36 | 49.3 | 2 |
| Mono Green Stompy | 16 | 29–36 | 44.6 | |
| Artifact Aggro | 8 | 12–19 | 38.7 | |
| Boros Vehicles | 5 | 4–12 | 25.0 | |
| Affinity | 3 | 1–9 | 10.0 | |
| Tokens | 8 | 13–12 | 52.0 | |
| Selesnya Tokens | 11 | 21–14 | 60.0 | |
| Mardu Tokens | 7 | 9–8 | 52.9 | |
| Mono White Tokens | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Pirates | 7 | 4–16 | 20.0 | |
| Gruul Aggro | 6 | 6–11 | 35.3 | |
| Mono Black Aggro | 6 | 11–15 | 42.3 | |
| Mono Red Swarm | 6 | 12–8 | 60.0 | |
| Elves | 4 | 8–5 | 61.5 | |
| Devoid Aggro | 3 | 7–8 | 46.7 | 1 |
| White Weenie | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Odric Keywords | 7 | 16–14 | 53.3 | |
| Soldiers | 3 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |
| Kithkin | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |
| Mono Blue Aggro | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Selesnya Little Kid | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Slivers | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Warriors | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |
| Mindcrank | 5 | 4–15 | 21.1 | |
| Sunforger | 4 | 6–11 | 35.3 | |
| 8 Goyf | 3 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |
| Actual Warp World | 3 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |
| Combo | 3 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Fake-Twin | 6 | 7–18 | 28.0 | |
| Jeskai Fake-Twin | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Biovisionary | 4 | 8–4 | 66.7 | |
| Mardu Life | 4 | 3–13 | 18.8 | |
| New Perspectives | 3 | 7–4 | 63.6 | 1 |
| Storm | 3 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |
| Dragonstorm | 6 | 4–14 | 22.2 | |
| Dimir Tendrils | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Quest for Ula's Temple | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Retraction Helix Combo | 2 | 1–8 | 11.1 | |
| Polymorph | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Turntimber Ranger | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Umbral Mantle | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Infect | 3 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |
| Swarm Intelligence | 3 | 2–10 | 16.7 | |
| Azorius Heroic | 2 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |
| Curses | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |
| Golgari Madness | 2 | 7–1 | 87.5 | 1 |
| Gruul Madness | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Mono Black Vampires | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |
| Orzhov Vampires | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |
| Aggro-Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Izzet Tempo | 8 | 11–14 | 44.0 | |
| Azorius Skies | 5 | 1–8 | 11.1 | |
| Aristocrats | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 4 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |
| Abzan Aristocrats | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |
| Golgari Aristocrats | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Mardu Aristocrats | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |
| Burn | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 |
| Grozoth | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |
| Orcish Aids | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Selesnya Heroic | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 |