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.
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Leaderboard
Archetypes
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | 5–0s |
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Midrange | 73 | 82–147 | 35.8 | 4 |
Temur Ascendancy | 80 | 153–142 | 51.9 | 7 |
The Rock | 22 | 38–40 | 48.7 | |
Graveyard Value | 17 | 16–40 | 28.6 | |
Orzhov Midrange | 13 | 27–28 | 49.1 | 1 |
Abzan Midrange | 8 | 10–15 | 40.0 | |
Jund | 7 | 14–14 | 50.0 | |
Rakdos Midrange | 7 | 13–13 | 50.0 | |
-1/-1 Counters | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |
Clerics | 3 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |
Anti-Persecution | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
Big Red | 2 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
Elementals | 2 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |
Mono Black Midrange | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
Naya Midrange | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |
Allies | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
Boros Allies | 7 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |
Mardu Allies | 3 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |
Orzhov Allies | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
Blink | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
Wave Blink | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
Azorius Wave | 17 | 19–32 | 37.3 | |
Cloudpost Wave Blink | 11 | 21–19 | 52.5 | |
Mardu Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
Temur Energy | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
Vampires | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
Mono Black Vampires | 11 | 22–13 | 62.9 | 1 |
Orzhov Vampires | 10 | 14–26 | 35.0 | |
Living Death | 47 | 108–84 | 56.3 | 1 |
Rofellos Ramp | 46 | 90–98 | 47.9 | |
Wild Pair | 5 | 10–12 | 45.5 | |
Wildfire | 36 | 56–75 | 42.7 | 1 |
Golgari Aristocrats | 24 | 54–45 | 54.5 | 3 |
Combo | 14 | 23–45 | 33.8 | |
Combo Post | 19 | 64–21 | 75.3 | 3 |
New Perspectives | 19 | 30–43 | 41.1 | |
Umbral Mantle | 10 | 18–12 | 60.0 | 2 |
Stuffy Doll | 8 | 19–17 | 52.8 | |
Oops All Lands | 6 | 9–9 | 50.0 | |
Jeskai Ascendancy | 5 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |
Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 11 | 23–19 | 54.8 | |
Jeskai Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
Monumental Ignus | 5 | 4–10 | 28.6 | |
Splendid Reclamation Combo | 3 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |
Eye of the Storm | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |
Fake-Twin | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
Murderous Mastery | 5 | 13–9 | 59.1 | |
Eggs | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
Quest for Ula's Temple | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
Storm | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
Recurring Nightmare | 14 | 29–16 | 64.4 | 2 |
Dragon Nightmare | 20 | 47–32 | 59.5 | 2 |
Four Color Powerful Magic | 5 | 13–7 | 65.0 | |
Jund Nightmare | 4 | 4–10 | 28.6 | |
Sultai Emerge | 13 | 29–30 | 49.2 | |
Control | 11 | 19–30 | 38.8 | |
Four Color Counter Ghazi | 28 | 55–59 | 48.2 | 1 |
Jeskai Control | 24 | 51–48 | 51.5 | 1 |
Jeskai Approach | 9 | 13–22 | 37.1 | |
Esper Control | 23 | 47–53 | 47.0 | |
Azorius Control | 18 | 22–25 | 46.8 | 1 |
Cycling Control | 14 | 38–27 | 58.5 | 1 |
Astral Slide | 11 | 24–23 | 51.1 | |
Mono Black Control | 13 | 17–26 | 39.5 | |
Dynavolt Tower | 10 | 22–22 | 50.0 | |
Cloudpost Control | 9 | 16–17 | 48.5 | |
Azorius Cloudpost Control | 24 | 34–40 | 45.9 | 1 |
Cloudy With Sunny Spells | 19 | 42–29 | 59.2 | 3 |
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 14 | 18–22 | 45.0 | |
Blackpost | 13 | 37–13 | 74.0 | 2 |
Dimir Cloudpost Control | 9 | 20–11 | 64.5 | 1 |
Izzet Cloudpost Control | 7 | 11–15 | 42.3 | |
Mono White Cloudpost Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
Dimir Control | 9 | 10–14 | 41.7 | |
Sultai Control | 7 | 14–18 | 43.8 | 1 |
Izzet Control | 6 | 3–11 | 21.4 | |
Chandra Nalaar | 5 | 12–13 | 48.0 | |
Mill | 5 | 7–7 | 50.0 | |
Turbo Fog | 4 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |
Five Color Control | 3 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |
Mardu Control | 3 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
Dragon Control | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
Mono White Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
Ponza | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
Cloudpost Ramp | 10 | 13–25 | 34.2 | |
Locus Awakening | 16 | 19–37 | 33.9 | |
Greenpost | 7 | 13–8 | 61.9 | |
Eldrazipost | 4 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |
Simic Post | 2 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
Golgari Post | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
Aggro | 8 | 10–20 | 33.3 | |
Red Deck Wins | 129 | 349–167 | 67.6 | 14 |
Proliferate Red | 48 | 147–68 | 68.4 | 9 |
Mono Red Devotion | 9 | 18–15 | 54.5 | |
Prisoner | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
Selesnya Little Kid | 41 | 76–81 | 48.4 | 2 |
White Weenie | 37 | 70–67 | 51.1 | 1 |
Soldiers | 3 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |
Odric Keywords | 1 | |||
Elves | 18 | 50–26 | 65.8 | |
Gruul Aggro | 18 | 36–39 | 48.0 | |
Mono Green Stompy | 17 | 40–30 | 57.1 | |
Mono Black Aggro | 13 | 23–27 | 46.0 | 1 |
Artifact Aggro | 11 | 21–14 | 60.0 | 1 |
Affinity | 23 | 49–45 | 52.1 | 1 |
Salvage Titan | 9 | 7–23 | 23.3 | |
Boros Vehicles | 3 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |
Goblins | 7 | 8–15 | 34.8 | |
Tokens | 5 | 13–12 | 52.0 | 1 |
Selesnya Tokens | 5 | 11–12 | 47.8 | |
Heroic | 3 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |
Mono White Heroic | 14 | 26–40 | 39.4 | |
Boros Heroic | 4 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |
Selesnya Heroic | 4 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |
Azorius Heroic | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
Merfolk | 3 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |
Werewolves | 3 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |
Humans | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
Selesnya Humans | 4 | 2–10 | 16.7 | |
Naya Zoo | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
Rogues | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
Voltron | 2 | 1–9 | 10.0 | |
Equipment Aggro | 37 | 89–65 | 57.8 | 5 |
Boros Auras | 3 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |
Hexproof | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
Boros Aggro | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
Mono Blue Aggro | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |
Mono Red Swarm | 1 | |||
Rakdos Aggro | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |
Zombies | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
Orzhov Aristocrats | 6 | 8–8 | 50.0 | |
Combo-Control | 5 | 4–12 | 25.0 | |
Battle of Wits | 15 | 18–43 | 29.5 | |
Yosei Vat | 14 | 20–31 | 39.2 | |
Hedron Alignment | 9 | 19–15 | 55.9 | 1 |
Displace Loop | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
Familiars | 2 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |
Pickles | 2 | 8–2 | 80.0 | 1 |
Sunforger | 2 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |
Curious Niv-Mizzet | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
Curses | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
Mono Black Aristocrats | 4 | 11–4 | 73.3 | 1 |
Traditional Reanimator | 4 | 1–9 | 10.0 | |
Abzan Aristocrats | 3 | 4–10 | 28.6 | |
Orzhov Enchantress | 3 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |
Aggro-Combo | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
Infect | 6 | 6–12 | 33.3 | |
Pummeler | 6 | 13–13 | 50.0 | |
Burn | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
Aggro-Control | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |
Izzet Tempo | 18 | 25–47 | 34.7 | |
12 Pest | 17 | 37–26 | 58.7 | 1 |
Lich Aggro-Control | 6 | 10–8 | 55.6 | |
Tetsukotog | 5 | 14–4 | 77.8 | 1 |
Azorius Skies | 2 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |
Simic Flash | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
Simic Vat | 6 | 18–9 | 66.7 | 1 |
Temur Clues | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
Domain | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
Gruul Madness | 2 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |
Mardu Aristocrats | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
Actual Warp World | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
Boros Legends Midrange | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
Temur Madness | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 |