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, 4 days.
Decks
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Leaderboard
Archetypes
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orzhov Control | 63 | 125–71 | 63.8 | 6 |
| Azorius Control | 56 | 105–82 | 56.1 | 7 |
| Izzet Control | 50 | 79–61 | 56.4 | 3 |
| Golgari Aristocrats | 41 | 41–87 | 32.0 | |
| Rakdos Aristocrats | 37 | 77–48 | 61.6 | 5 |
| Red Deck Wins | 36 | 52–48 | 52.0 | 1 |
| Mono Red Devotion | 6 | 11–10 | 52.4 | |
| Combo | 28 | 20–60 | 25.0 | |
| Dredge | 18 | 14–49 | 22.2 | |
| Blazing Shoal Combo | 13 | 10–22 | 31.3 | |
| Restore Balance | 11 | 16–18 | 47.1 | |
| Primal Prayers Combo | 10 | 17–17 | 50.0 | 1 |
| Hypergenesis | 8 | 9–8 | 52.9 | |
| Polymorph | 8 | 5–17 | 22.7 | |
| Taking Turns | 8 | 13–14 | 48.1 | |
| Oops All Lands | 5 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |
| Storm | 4 | 3–9 | 25.0 | |
| High Tide | 82 | 178–150 | 54.3 | 4 |
| Dragonstorm | 6 | 5–12 | 29.4 | |
| Citadel Storm | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Paradoxical Outcome Storm | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Storm Herald | 3 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |
| Gyruda | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Metalwork Colossus | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
| Anvil Colossus | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Soulflayer | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
| Enduring Ideal | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Izzet Ascension | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Saffi Combo | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Tibalt's Trickery | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Mono Blue Spirits | 28 | 58–33 | 63.7 | 3 |
| Ramp | 28 | 21–59 | 26.3 | |
| Applejacks | 10 | 12–20 | 37.5 | |
| Carth Superfriends | 3 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |
| Cloudpost Ramp | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
| Simic Post | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |
| Selesnya Little Kid | 28 | 56–55 | 50.5 | 1 |
| Selesnya Counters | 4 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |
| Midrange | 23 | 25–30 | 45.5 | |
| Artifact Midrange | 52 | 84–87 | 49.1 | 3 |
| Boros Engineers | 14 | 29–18 | 61.7 | 1 |
| The Rock | 39 | 62–45 | 57.9 | 2 |
| Golgari Citadel | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Rakdos Midrange | 29 | 31–39 | 44.3 | 1 |
| Blink | 20 | 24–30 | 44.4 | 1 |
| Orzhov Blink | 5 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
| Graveyard Value | 15 | 8–31 | 20.5 | |
| Abzan Midrange | 14 | 22–20 | 52.4 | 2 |
| Dimir Midrange | 14 | 7–18 | 28.0 | |
| Mono Black Midrange | 12 | 11–26 | 29.7 | |
| Big Red | 9 | 11–16 | 40.7 | |
| Orzhov Midrange | 7 | 13–8 | 61.9 | |
| Game Objects | 6 | 11–15 | 42.3 | |
| Fake-Rack | 5 | 9–12 | 42.9 | |
| Death Cloud | 4 | 1–9 | 10.0 | |
| Enchantments Matter | 4 | 11–5 | 68.8 | |
| Laelia Cascade | 4 | 5–8 | 38.5 | |
| Lifegain Midrange | 4 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |
| Mardu Midrange | 4 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |
| Naya Midrange | 4 | 7–9 | 43.8 | |
| Sultai Midrange | 4 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |
| Toughness Matters | 4 | 6–10 | 37.5 | |
| Angels | 3 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |
| Orzhov Angels | 6 | 14–8 | 63.6 | 1 |
| Mono White Angels | 4 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |
| Gruul Obosh | 3 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |
| Jund | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |
| Jeskai Midrange | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |
| Coinflips | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Elementals | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Heartless Summoning Stompy | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Legends Midrange | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Boros Legends Midrange | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |
| Orzhov Legends | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Vampires | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Mono Black Vampires | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |
| Verdant Succession | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Enchantress | 22 | 38–31 | 55.1 | 3 |
| Esper Control | 21 | 36–33 | 52.2 | |
| Traditional Reanimator | 18 | 18–14 | 56.3 | |
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 17 | 35–29 | 54.7 | 1 |
| Azorius Humans | 16 | 34–19 | 64.2 | 3 |
| Five Color Hero | 15 | 23–23 | 50.0 | 2 |
| Dynavolt Tower | 14 | 25–24 | 51.0 | |
| Merfolk | 13 | 14–19 | 42.4 | |
| Rakdos Aggro | 13 | 26–23 | 53.1 | 2 |
| Gruul Aggro | 12 | 11–21 | 34.4 | |
| Gruul Landfall | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 11 | 20–12 | 62.5 | 1 |
| Stax | 11 | 13–20 | 39.4 | |
| Werewolves | 11 | 16–17 | 48.5 | |
| Dimir Control | 10 | 15–11 | 57.7 | 1 |
| Orzhov Humans | 10 | 24–13 | 64.9 | 1 |
| Azorius Spirits | 9 | 25–8 | 75.8 | 3 |
| Grixis Control | 6 | 4–13 | 23.5 | |
| Cruel Control | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Legends Aggro | 6 | 11–7 | 61.1 | 1 |
| Boros Legends Aggro | 16 | 30–17 | 63.8 | 1 |
| Bard Class | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
| White Weenie | 6 | 8–2 | 80.0 | 1 |
| Mono White Humans | 50 | 121–68 | 64.0 | 4 |
| Five Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 5 | 6–3 | 66.7 | |
| Mono Black Aggro | 5 | 11–5 | 68.8 | |
| Mono Black Control | 5 | 3–9 | 25.0 | |
| Mono Green Stompy | 5 | 4–10 | 28.6 | |
| Mono White Control | 5 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |
| Aggro-Combo | 4 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |
| Burn | 19 | 24–31 | 43.6 | |
| Izzet Blitzkrieg | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| AggroSlide | 3 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |
| Elves | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |
| Enchantments Control | 3 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |
| Runeflare | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |
| Aggro-Control | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Dimir Tempo | 39 | 73–37 | 66.4 | 2 |
| Izzet Tempo | 23 | 27–32 | 45.8 | 1 |
| Azorius Tempo | 7 | 8–8 | 50.0 | 1 |
| Izzet Spells | 7 | 10–10 | 50.0 | |
| Simic Flash | 5 | 2–10 | 16.7 | |
| Azorius Skies | 3 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |
| Wizards | 3 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Blue Tempo | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Mono Blue Librarians | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |
| Artifact Aggro | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Mono Blue Architect | 9 | 8–13 | 38.1 | |
| Affinity | 8 | 8–13 | 38.1 | |
| Salvage Titan | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Tempered Steel | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Astral Slide | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Boros Humans | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Combo-Control | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Battle of Wits | 11 | 17–25 | 40.5 | |
| Curses | 5 | 12–7 | 63.2 | |
| Solar Flare | 3 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |
| Coveted Falcon Combo | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Hive Mind | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Dragon Control | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |
| Enigmatic Incarnation | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |
| Hateful Auras | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |
| Knights | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Mardu Control | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |
| Mardu Hero | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Red Swarm | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 2 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Pirates | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | 1 |
| Ponza | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |
| Rogues | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
| Tokens | 2 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |
| Mono White Tokens | 9 | 15–6 | 71.4 | 2 |
| Orzhov Tokens | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Selesnya Tokens | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Wildfire | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Abzan Aristocrats | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Bant Control | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Boros Bombardment | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Boros Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Equipment Aggro | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Esper Allies | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
| Esper Hero | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Five Color Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Five Color Collected Conjuring | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Last Stand Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Four Color Glimpse | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Goblins | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Guildgate Control | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |
| Heroic | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Selesnya Heroic | 45 | 123–49 | 71.5 | 9 |
| Azorius Heroic | 7 | 14–8 | 63.6 | 1 |
| Mono White Heroic | 7 | 14–9 | 60.9 | |
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Mill | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Red Eldrazi | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |
| Permanent Vacation | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Selesnya Humans | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Slivers | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Turbo Fog | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Unclassified | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Unctus | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 |