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 2 days, 20 hours.
Congratulations to thewatchwander, winner of The Penny Dreadful 500 (Season 34)
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Leaderboard
Archetypes
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midrange | 68 | 65–141 | 31.6 | 1 |
| Temur Ascendancy | 42 | 97–65 | 59.9 | 3 |
| The Rock | 32 | 72–58 | 55.4 | 1 |
| Jund | 24 | 37–48 | 43.5 | 1 |
| Abzan Midrange | 10 | 13–28 | 31.7 | |
| -1/-1 Counters | 9 | 14–22 | 38.9 | |
| Graveyard Value | 9 | 10–17 | 37.0 | |
| Orzhov Midrange | 9 | 6–15 | 28.6 | |
| Mardu Midrange | 7 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |
| Allies | 6 | 12–15 | 44.4 | |
| Boros Allies | 19 | 40–30 | 57.1 | 2 |
| Mardu Allies | 9 | 20–20 | 50.0 | |
| Orzhov Allies | 3 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |
| Esper Allies | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |
| Naya Midrange | 4 | 7–9 | 43.8 | |
| Temur Energy | 4 | 12–4 | 75.0 | |
| Sultai Midrange | 3 | 4–10 | 28.6 | |
| Sultai Emerge | 22 | 42–44 | 48.8 | 2 |
| Artifact Midrange | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
| Clerics | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
| Elementals | 2 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |
| Mono Black Midrange | 2 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |
| Rakdos Midrange | 2 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |
| Big Red | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |
| Dimir Midrange | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Dimir Vat | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Vampires | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Black Vampires | 29 | 55–38 | 59.1 | 2 |
| Rakdos Vampires | 8 | 12–19 | 38.7 | |
| Orzhov Vampires | 6 | 10–8 | 55.6 | 1 |
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 49 | 127–77 | 62.3 | 8 |
| Wildfire | 44 | 65–70 | 48.1 | 2 |
| Living Death | 30 | 74–50 | 59.7 | 1 |
| Mono White Heroic | 20 | 30–34 | 46.9 | 2 |
| Azorius Wave | 14 | 22–30 | 42.3 | |
| Selesnya Heroic | 13 | 31–20 | 60.8 | 2 |
| Aggro | 9 | 13–21 | 38.2 | |
| Red Deck Wins | 157 | 439–218 | 66.8 | 20 |
| Mono Red Devotion | 9 | 18–17 | 51.4 | 2 |
| Prisoner | 2 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |
| Proliferate Red | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Selesnya Little Kid | 44 | 78–79 | 49.7 | 1 |
| Mono Green Stompy | 27 | 49–54 | 47.6 | 1 |
| Werewolves | 16 | 23–22 | 51.1 | |
| White Weenie | 15 | 27–33 | 45.0 | |
| Odric Keywords | 5 | 13–12 | 52.0 | |
| Kithkin | 3 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |
| Soldiers | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Elves | 13 | 12–26 | 31.6 | |
| Mono Black Aggro | 12 | 17–21 | 44.7 | |
| Gruul Aggro | 10 | 22–16 | 57.9 | 1 |
| Mono Red Swarm | 9 | 17–20 | 45.9 | |
| Merfolk | 8 | 4–24 | 14.3 | |
| Zombies | 8 | 3–18 | 14.3 | |
| Tokens | 7 | 16–13 | 55.2 | 1 |
| Selesnya Tokens | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Boros Aggro | 5 | 7–17 | 29.2 | |
| Naya Zoo | 5 | 11–8 | 57.9 | 1 |
| Artifact Aggro | 2 | 6–2 | 75.0 | |
| Affinity | 29 | 60–48 | 55.6 | 1 |
| Salvage Titan | 8 | 10–15 | 40.0 | 1 |
| Boros Vehicles | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Goblins | 2 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |
| Rakdos Aggro | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Devoid Aggro | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Madness | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Rakdos Madness | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Recurring Nightmare | 9 | 9–14 | 39.1 | |
| Dragon Nightmare | 27 | 63–40 | 61.2 | 1 |
| Four Color Powerful Magic | 9 | 14–23 | 37.8 | |
| Jund Nightmare | 6 | 14–15 | 48.3 | |
| Hexproof | 8 | 12–17 | 41.4 | |
| Combo | 7 | 2–11 | 15.4 | |
| Umbral Mantle | 71 | 158–115 | 57.9 | 7 |
| Jeskai Ascendancy | 33 | 65–63 | 50.8 | 2 |
| Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 5 | 14–4 | 77.8 | |
| Stuffy Doll | 7 | 5–23 | 17.9 | |
| Oops All Lands | 6 | 10–13 | 43.5 | |
| "Twin" | 4 | 4–12 | 25.0 | |
| Murderous Mastery | 13 | 29–25 | 53.7 | 1 |
| Jeskai "Twin" | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Eggs | 3 | 0–8 | 0.0 | |
| Turntimber Ranger | 3 | 7–8 | 46.7 | |
| Myr Incubator | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| New Perspectives | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Storm | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Biovisionary | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Ramp | 7 | 6–14 | 30.0 | |
| Rofellos Ramp | 58 | 105–101 | 51.0 | 3 |
| Wild Pair | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Cloudpost Ramp | 26 | 43–46 | 48.3 | |
| Locus Awakening | 10 | 16–18 | 47.1 | 1 |
| Eldrazipost | 9 | 16–21 | 43.2 | |
| Golgari Post | 5 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |
| Greenpost | 5 | 14–9 | 60.9 | |
| Gruul Post | 5 | 4–10 | 28.6 | |
| Simic Post | 4 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |
| Domain | 4 | 7–10 | 41.2 | |
| Villainous Wealth | 3 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |
| Cloudpost Wave Blink | 6 | 14–8 | 63.6 | 1 |
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 6 | 15–8 | 65.2 | |
| Control | 5 | 7–7 | 50.0 | |
| Jeskai Control | 39 | 67–93 | 41.9 | 2 |
| Jeskai Approach | 38 | 76–59 | 56.3 | 5 |
| Five Color Control | 27 | 55–52 | 51.4 | |
| Cloudpost Control | 25 | 15–52 | 22.4 | |
| Azorius Cloudpost Control | 37 | 90–62 | 59.2 | 4 |
| Dimir Cloudpost Control | 26 | 69–38 | 64.5 | 1 |
| Cloudy With Sunny Spells | 12 | 33–16 | 67.3 | 2 |
| Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 8 | 15–12 | 55.6 | 1 |
| Blackpost | 4 | 3–10 | 23.1 | |
| Izzet Cloudpost Control | 3 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |
| Ponza | 24 | 14–41 | 25.5 | |
| Azorius Control | 23 | 44–30 | 59.5 | 2 |
| Dynavolt Tower | 22 | 41–45 | 47.7 | |
| Esper Control | 17 | 47–33 | 58.8 | 1 |
| Chandra Nalaar | 14 | 39–19 | 67.2 | 2 |
| Four Color Counter Ghazi | 14 | 25–29 | 46.3 | |
| Turbo Fog | 10 | 25–23 | 52.1 | |
| Grixis Control | 8 | 4–13 | 23.5 | |
| Mill | 8 | 8–19 | 29.6 | |
| Cycling Control | 6 | 9–18 | 33.3 | |
| Astral Slide | 10 | 8–20 | 28.6 | |
| Izzet Control | 6 | 13–10 | 56.5 | 1 |
| Mono Black Control | 5 | 9–8 | 52.9 | |
| Mono Blue Control | 5 | 2–10 | 16.7 | |
| Dimir Control | 4 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |
| Sultai Control | 3 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Bant Control | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Dragon Control | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |
| Enchantments Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mono White Control | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Selesnya Humans | 4 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Aggro-Combo | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |
| Pummeler | 26 | 49–49 | 50.0 | |
| Infect | 13 | 24–22 | 52.2 | |
| Burn | 8 | 4–14 | 22.2 | |
| Combo-Control | 2 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
| Battle of Wits | 23 | 20–59 | 25.3 | |
| Hedron Alignment | 6 | 4–15 | 21.1 | |
| Pickles | 6 | 14–9 | 60.9 | 1 |
| Displace Loop | 5 | 6–9 | 40.0 | |
| Shared Fate | 4 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Yosei Vat | 4 | 9–8 | 52.9 | |
| Curses | 3 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |
| Sunforger | 3 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |
| Burning Vengeance | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Curious Niv-Mizzet | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Lich's Mastery | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Druid Cephalid Breakfast | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
| Equipment Aggro | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Golgari Aristocrats | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | 1 |
| Abzan Aristocrats | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Actual Warp World | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Aggro-Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| 12 Pest | 11 | 13–19 | 40.6 | |
| Izzet Tempo | 11 | 11–26 | 29.7 | |
| Blue Madness | 5 | 9–15 | 37.5 | |
| Temur Madness | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Simic Flash | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |
| Simic Vat | 11 | 19–23 | 45.2 | |
| Boros Auras | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Boros Heroic | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Mardu Aristocrats | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Traditional Reanimator | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 |