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 12 weeks, 6 days.
Decks
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Leaderboard
Archetypes
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midrange | 65 | 81–117 | 40.9 | 1 |
| Jund | 68 | 140–131 | 51.7 | 1 |
| Temur Ascendancy | 44 | 106–79 | 57.3 | 5 |
| Prophet Ascendancy | 9 | 25–13 | 65.8 | 1 |
| White Jund | 26 | 59–47 | 55.7 | 2 |
| Abzan Midrange | 22 | 30–49 | 38.0 | 1 |
| Knights of Windgrace | 7 | 21–14 | 60.0 | 1 |
| Blink | 20 | 27–43 | 38.6 | |
| Yisan-Prophet | 19 | 40–28 | 58.8 | 2 |
| Graveyard Value | 17 | 27–34 | 44.3 | |
| -1/-1 Counters | 12 | 25–25 | 50.0 | |
| Elementals | 11 | 18–21 | 46.2 | 1 |
| Rakdos Midrange | 9 | 19–15 | 55.9 | |
| Mardu Midrange | 6 | 6–9 | 40.0 | |
| Leave // Chance Midrange | 11 | 14–23 | 37.8 | |
| The Rock | 6 | 12–14 | 46.2 | |
| Orzhov Midrange | 5 | 3–13 | 18.8 | |
| Grenzo | 3 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |
| Mono Black Midrange | 3 | 2–9 | 18.2 | |
| Prophet Glare | 3 | 7–4 | 63.6 | |
| Sultai Midrange | 3 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |
| Sultai Emerge | 22 | 69–25 | 73.4 | 3 |
| Enchantments Matter | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |
| Orzhov Enchantress | 12 | 14–25 | 35.9 | |
| Naya Midrange | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
| Allies | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Orzhov Allies | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |
| BRGW Allies | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Anti-Persecution | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Big Red | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |
| Temur Energy | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Ramp | 50 | 83–118 | 41.3 | 2 |
| Villainous Wealth | 5 | 3–13 | 18.8 | |
| Domain | 4 | 8–9 | 47.1 | |
| Aggro | 44 | 68–92 | 42.5 | 2 |
| Merfolk | 50 | 99–89 | 52.7 | 4 |
| Red Deck Wins | 42 | 117–66 | 63.9 | 7 |
| Mono Red Devotion | 51 | 140–69 | 67.0 | 5 |
| Mono Black Aggro | 41 | 82–64 | 56.2 | 3 |
| White Weenie | 41 | 106–59 | 64.2 | 5 |
| Odric Keywords | 40 | 82–62 | 56.9 | 3 |
| Kithkin | 4 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |
| Soldiers | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Mono Green Stompy | 24 | 41–36 | 53.2 | 1 |
| Zombies | 20 | 36–37 | 49.3 | |
| Devastating Dreams | 18 | 51–29 | 63.8 | 4 |
| Voltron | 11 | 19–21 | 47.5 | |
| Equipment Aggro | 12 | 9–22 | 29.0 | |
| Boros Auras | 8 | 9–12 | 42.9 | |
| Hexproof | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Goblins | 10 | 27–13 | 67.5 | 1 |
| Selesnya Little Kid | 10 | 23–18 | 56.1 | 2 |
| Gruul Aggro | 9 | 25–12 | 67.6 | 1 |
| Tokens | 9 | 8–17 | 32.0 | |
| Selesnya Tokens | 47 | 73–83 | 46.8 | 2 |
| Mardu Tokens | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Werewolves | 8 | 16–16 | 50.0 | |
| Mono Blue Aggro | 7 | 11–12 | 47.8 | |
| Artifact Aggro | 6 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |
| Boros Vehicles | 19 | 41–43 | 48.8 | 1 |
| Salvage Titan | 12 | 17–26 | 39.5 | |
| Affinity | 9 | 13–27 | 32.5 | |
| Minotaurs | 6 | 9–9 | 50.0 | |
| Devoid Aggro | 3 | 8–6 | 57.1 | |
| Naya Zoo | 3 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |
| Slivers | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |
| Boros Aggro | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Humans | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Warriors | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Control | 28 | 37–60 | 38.1 | |
| Esper Control | 81 | 169–153 | 52.5 | 5 |
| Demonic Rising | 71 | 164–108 | 60.3 | 6 |
| Bant Control | 39 | 100–92 | 52.1 | 1 |
| Dimir Control | 19 | 27–41 | 39.7 | |
| Grixis Control | 18 | 43–32 | 57.3 | 1 |
| Cruel Control | 19 | 41–27 | 60.3 | 2 |
| Azorius Control | 11 | 15–23 | 39.5 | |
| Mono Blue Control | 11 | 13–24 | 35.1 | |
| Mill | 7 | 4–15 | 21.1 | |
| Orzhov Control | 7 | 11–14 | 44.0 | |
| Enchantments Control | 6 | 11–17 | 39.3 | |
| Galleon Control | 6 | 18–5 | 78.3 | 1 |
| Mardu Control | 4 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |
| Mono Black Control | 4 | 1–8 | 11.1 | |
| Ponza | 3 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |
| Boros Control | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |
| Chandra Nalaar | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Dynavolt Tower | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Izzet Control | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |
| Jeskai Control | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Cloudpost Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Azorius Cloudpost Control | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Five Color Control | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Wildfire | 25 | 39–52 | 42.9 | 1 |
| Astral Slide | 20 | 29–47 | 38.2 | |
| Combo-Control | 20 | 22–40 | 35.5 | |
| Cruel Combo-Control | 22 | 42–41 | 50.6 | |
| Battle of Wits | 16 | 28–34 | 45.2 | |
| Pickles | 8 | 24–11 | 68.6 | 1 |
| Shared Fate | 6 | 12–17 | 41.4 | |
| Sunforger | 5 | 5–11 | 31.3 | |
| Hedron Alignment | 3 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |
| Curious Niv-Mizzet | 2 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Curses | 2 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |
| Zur's Weirding | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Traditional Reanimator | 19 | 38–37 | 50.7 | |
| Grixis Reanimator | 10 | 20–20 | 50.0 | |
| Aggro-Control | 15 | 29–35 | 45.3 | |
| Izzet Tempo | 58 | 114–111 | 50.7 | 3 |
| Azorius Skies | 4 | 3–10 | 23.1 | |
| Blue Madness | 4 | 7–6 | 53.8 | |
| Temur Madness | 6 | 7–11 | 38.9 | |
| Grixis Madness | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | 1 |
| Simic Madness | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Lich Aggro-Control | 4 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |
| Simic Flash | 3 | 7–6 | 53.8 | |
| Wizards | 3 | 8–4 | 66.7 | 1 |
| Azorius Tempo | 2 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |
| Izzet Spells | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
| Boros Legends Midrange | 15 | 39–23 | 62.9 | 2 |
| Rakdos Vampires | 10 | 23–13 | 63.9 | 1 |
| Azorius Heroic | 9 | 8–16 | 33.3 | |
| Combo | 9 | 13–23 | 36.1 | |
| Jeskai Ascendancy | 54 | 110–116 | 48.7 | 1 |
| Jeskai Jeskai Ascendancy | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Cruel Combo | 19 | 43–45 | 48.9 | 1 |
| Storm | 10 | 23–19 | 54.8 | 1 |
| Dimir Tendrils | 45 | 85–112 | 43.1 | 4 |
| Sultai Tendrils | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |
| Dragonstorm | 2 | 6–3 | 66.7 | |
| Hazoret Storm | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Myr Incubator | 6 | 8–8 | 50.0 | |
| Polymorph | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |
| Biovisionary | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Monumental Ignus | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Gruul Post | 8 | 12–14 | 46.2 | 1 |
| Aggro-Combo | 5 | 14–5 | 73.7 | 1 |
| Pummeler | 29 | 54–60 | 47.4 | 1 |
| Burn | 11 | 12–16 | 42.9 | 1 |
| Infect | 6 | 7–19 | 26.9 | |
| Aristocrats | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Golgari Aristocrats | 17 | 36–33 | 52.2 | 2 |
| Abzan Aristocrats | 12 | 20–22 | 47.6 | |
| Mardu Aristocrats | 7 | 16–19 | 45.7 | |
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 5 | 11–6 | 64.7 | |
| Mono White Heroic | 5 | 9–10 | 47.4 | |
| Eldrazipost | 4 | 8–8 | 50.0 | |
| Actual Warp World | 3 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |
| Boros Heroic | 3 | 6–5 | 54.5 | |
| Cephalid Breakfast | 3 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Mono Black Vampires | 3 | 6–3 | 66.7 | |
| Rakdos Madness | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Gruul Madness | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Simic Post | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 |