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 1 day, 13 hours.
Congratulations to thewatchwander, winner of The Penny Dreadful 500 (Season 34)
Decks
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Leaderboard
Archetypes
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midrange | 7 | 8–11 | 42.1 | |
| Abzan Midrange | 2 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |
| Jund | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |
| Blink | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Dimir Midrange | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Elementals | 1 | |||
| Naya Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| The Rock | 1 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
| Elves | 4 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |
| Polymorph | 4 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |
| Red Deck Wins | 4 | 13–7 | 65.0 | 1 |
| Abzan Aristocrats | 3 | 7–5 | 58.3 | |
| Burn | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Combo-Control | 3 | 8–5 | 61.5 | 1 |
| Cruel Combo-Control | 3 | 11–4 | 73.3 | |
| Hedron Alignment | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Gruul Aggro | 3 | 7–4 | 63.6 | |
| Wildfire | 3 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |
| Cruel Control | 2 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |
| Storm | 2 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Dragonstorm | 2 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
| Voltron | 2 | 5–2 | 71.4 | |
| Equipment Aggro | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |
| Affinity | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Astral Slide | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |
| Azorius Skies | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |
| Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Mono Black Control | 4 | 10–6 | 62.5 | |
| Dimir Control | 3 | 3–12 | 20.0 | |
| Demonic Rising | 1 | |||
| Izzet Control | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |
| Orzhov Control | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
| Druid Cephalid Breakfast | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Esper Dragons | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Goblins | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |
| Grixis Dragons | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Heroic | 1 | |||
| Azorius Heroic | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Infect | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Minotaurs | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |
| Ramp | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Slivers | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Temur Madness | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Tokens | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Selesnya Tokens | 1 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Umbral Mantle | 1 | 4–0 | 100.0 | |
| White Weenie | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 |