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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ramp | 44 | 109–68 | 61.6 | 2 |
| Temur Bombardment | 5 | 4–10 | 28.6 | |
| Domain | 4 | 9–7 | 56.3 | |
| Villainous Wealth | 4 | 2–12 | 14.3 | |
| Midrange | 12 | 16–20 | 44.4 | 1 |
| Jund | 16 | 32–21 | 60.4 | 2 |
| Temur Ascendancy | 14 | 30–23 | 56.6 | 1 |
| Prophet Ascendancy | 3 | 8–4 | 66.7 | |
| Allies | 12 | 23–28 | 45.1 | |
| Esper Allies | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |
| Abzan Midrange | 8 | 19–14 | 57.6 | |
| -1/-1 Counters | 7 | 10–14 | 41.7 | |
| Naya Midrange | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Orzhov Midrange | 2 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |
| Mardu Midrange | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
| Yisan-Prophet | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Combo | 8 | 9–20 | 31.0 | |
| Myr Incubator | 5 | 11–3 | 78.6 | 1 |
| Storm | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |
| Dimir Tendrils | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Dragonstorm | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
| Sultai Tendrils | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Traditional Reanimator | 7 | 16–13 | 55.2 | 1 |
| Affinity | 5 | 15–6 | 71.4 | |
| Tetsukotog | 5 | 8–10 | 44.4 | |
| Sultai Emerge | 4 | 12–5 | 70.6 | |
| Abzan Aristocrats | 3 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |
| Aggro | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Red Deck Wins | 23 | 44–26 | 62.9 | 1 |
| Goblins | 12 | 18–24 | 42.9 | 1 |
| Merfolk | 12 | 19–23 | 45.2 | |
| Gruul Aggro | 10 | 16–23 | 41.0 | |
| White Weenie | 5 | 9–11 | 45.0 | |
| Odric Keywords | 5 | 9–10 | 47.4 | |
| Soldiers | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Mono Black Aggro | 4 | 8–9 | 47.1 | |
| Zombies | 3 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Devastating Dreams | 2 | 7–2 | 77.8 | 1 |
| Madness | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
| Jund Madness | 4 | 9–8 | 52.9 | |
| Gruul Madness | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
| Minotaurs | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Elves | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Werewolves | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Aggro-Combo | 3 | 5–4 | 55.6 | 1 |
| Burn | 5 | 9–8 | 52.9 | |
| Pummeler | 5 | 12–7 | 63.2 | |
| Eldrazipost | 3 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |
| Boros Legends Midrange | 2 | 5–2 | 71.4 | 1 |
| Combo-Control | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |
| Battle of Wits | 6 | 10–9 | 52.6 | |
| Burning Vengeance | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Curious Niv-Mizzet | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Control | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |
| Demonic Rising | 16 | 44–31 | 58.7 | 1 |
| Dynavolt Tower | 11 | 20–17 | 54.1 | |
| Grixis Control | 8 | 10–19 | 34.5 | |
| Cruel Control | 3 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |
| Azorius Control | 6 | 16–7 | 69.6 | 1 |
| Dimir Control | 5 | 1–8 | 11.1 | |
| Izzet Control | 5 | 2–10 | 16.7 | |
| Bant Control | 3 | 10–2 | 83.3 | 1 |
| Esper Control | 3 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |
| Mill | 3 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Jeskai Control | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |
| Mardu Control | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |
| Mono Blue Control | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
| Ponza | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Enchantments Control | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Mono Black Control | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Orzhov Control | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Dimir Cloudpost Control | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Mono White Heroic | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Selesnya Tokens | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Astral Slide | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Boros Auras | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Equipment Aggro | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Golgari Aristocrats | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Izzet Tempo | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Mardu Aristocrats | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Rakdos Hellbent | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Rakdos Vampires | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Salvage Titan | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Selesnya Humans | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Wildfire | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Wizards | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 |