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 | 37 | 33–66 | 33.3 | 1 |
| Jund | 29 | 58–63 | 47.9 | 1 |
| The Rock | 23 | 34–53 | 39.1 | 1 |
| White Jund | 19 | 30–45 | 40.0 | |
| Abzan Midrange | 12 | 27–20 | 57.4 | 2 |
| Knights of Windgrace | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Blink | 10 | 23–22 | 51.1 | |
| Acid Trip | 8 | 13–20 | 39.4 | |
| Elementals | 9 | 23–11 | 67.6 | |
| Legends Midrange | 9 | 11–20 | 35.5 | 1 |
| Mardu Legends | 6 | 13–15 | 46.4 | 1 |
| Orzhov Legends | 5 | 13–7 | 65.0 | |
| Rakdos Midrange | 8 | 13–17 | 43.3 | |
| -1/-1 Counters | 7 | 9–17 | 34.6 | |
| Mardu Midrange | 7 | 9–9 | 50.0 | |
| Card Advantage White | 6 | 18–11 | 62.1 | |
| Big Red | 5 | 5–14 | 26.3 | |
| Enchantments Matter | 5 | 4–15 | 21.1 | |
| Grenzo | 5 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |
| Graveyard Value | 4 | 9–7 | 56.3 | |
| Stoic Midrange | 4 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Treefolk | 4 | 3–11 | 21.4 | |
| Temur Ascendancy | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Artifact Midrange | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |
| Mono Black Midrange | 1 | |||
| Sultai Midrange | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Astral Slide | 21 | 23–48 | 32.4 | |
| Combo | 20 | 7–36 | 16.3 | |
| Metalwork Colossus | 31 | 52–66 | 44.1 | 2 |
| New Perspectives | 23 | 36–52 | 40.9 | 1 |
| Necrotic Ooze Combo | 13 | 23–28 | 45.1 | |
| Storm | 8 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |
| Biovisionary | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |
| Eye of the Storm | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mardu Life | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |
| Oops All Lands | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Wildfire | 19 | 18–37 | 32.7 | |
| Boros Allies | 11 | 33–21 | 61.1 | 1 |
| Ramp | 11 | 5–19 | 20.8 | |
| Domain | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Applejacks | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Mono Black Vampires | 10 | 21–8 | 72.4 | 1 |
| Rakdos Hellbent | 10 | 21–18 | 53.8 | 1 |
| Control | 8 | 11–15 | 42.3 | |
| Sultai Control | 43 | 72–87 | 45.3 | 1 |
| Grixis Control | 41 | 71–84 | 45.8 | 1 |
| Demonic Rising | 30 | 67–45 | 59.8 | 1 |
| Stagnant Control | 21 | 15–43 | 25.9 | |
| Mono Blue Control | 18 | 19–34 | 35.8 | 1 |
| Jeskai Control | 17 | 33–34 | 49.3 | 1 |
| Stax | 17 | 15–32 | 31.9 | |
| Dimir Control | 10 | 13–17 | 43.3 | |
| Mill | 9 | 1–26 | 3.7 | |
| Izzet Control | 7 | 10–14 | 41.7 | |
| Turbo Fog | 7 | 7–13 | 35.0 | 1 |
| Mardu Control | 6 | 15–12 | 55.6 | 1 |
| Mono White Control | 6 | 4–18 | 18.2 | |
| Life is Ez | 10 | 28–17 | 62.2 | 2 |
| Runeflare | 6 | 16–14 | 53.3 | |
| Azorius Control | 5 | 14–8 | 63.6 | |
| Cawblade | 3 | 9–6 | 60.0 | |
| Four Color Counter Ghazi | 5 | 11–9 | 55.0 | 1 |
| Mono Black Control | 4 | 4–13 | 23.5 | |
| Paradox Haze Lock | 4 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Dynavolt Tower | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Five Color Control | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Enchantments Control | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Orzhov Control | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Selesnya Tokens | 8 | 7–16 | 30.4 | |
| Aggro-Control | 6 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |
| Azorius Skies | 7 | 10–16 | 38.5 | 1 |
| Blue Madness | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |
| Simic Madness | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Simic Flash | 2 | 0–8 | 0.0 | |
| Azorius Tempo | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Grixis Dragons | 5 | 9–9 | 50.0 | |
| Aggro | 4 | 1–10 | 9.1 | |
| Red Deck Wins | 61 | 190–83 | 69.6 | 14 |
| Mono Red Devotion | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| White Weenie | 25 | 60–47 | 56.1 | 2 |
| Chroma White | 10 | 25–17 | 59.5 | |
| Odric Keywords | 7 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |
| Kithkin | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |
| Soldiers | 2 | 1–9 | 10.0 | |
| Mono Black Aggro | 23 | 43–39 | 52.4 | |
| Goblins | 16 | 26–25 | 51.0 | |
| Zombies | 8 | 11–10 | 52.4 | |
| Gruul Aggro | 7 | 19–13 | 59.4 | |
| Selesnya Little Kid | 7 | 2–15 | 11.8 | |
| Elves | 6 | 12–16 | 42.9 | 1 |
| Boros Aggro | 4 | 11–8 | 57.9 | 1 |
| Voltron | 4 | 2–9 | 18.2 | |
| Equipment Aggro | 12 | 13–18 | 41.9 | |
| Merfolk | 3 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |
| Mono Blue Aggro | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Illusions | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Shamans | 3 | 7–5 | 58.3 | |
| Artifact Aggro | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Tempered Steel | 89 | 239–106 | 69.3 | 9 |
| Boros Vehicles | 2 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |
| Salvage Titan | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Heroic | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Azorius Heroic | 5 | 6–14 | 30.0 | |
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |
| Mono White Heroic | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Madness | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Golgari Madness | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |
| Minotaurs | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |
| Warriors | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Werewolves | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Combo-Control | 4 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |
| Curses | 46 | 106–74 | 58.9 | 5 |
| Lich's Mastery | 33 | 49–50 | 49.5 | 2 |
| Pickles | 4 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |
| Battle of Wits | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |
| Infect | 3 | 6–5 | 54.5 | |
| Mardu Allies | 3 | 5–8 | 38.5 | |
| Traditional Reanimator | 3 | 2–9 | 18.2 | |
| Burn | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |
| Grozoth | 2 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
| Orzhov Allies | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |
| Actual Warp World | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Aristocrats | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 52 | 146–85 | 63.2 | 4 |
| Golgari Aristocrats | 5 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |
| Abzan Aristocrats | 4 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 4 | 8–9 | 47.1 | 1 |
| Cephalid Breakfast | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Druid Cephalid Breakfast | 91 | 241–133 | 64.4 | 9 |
| Grixis Breakfast | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |
| Pummeler | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |
| Rakdos Vampires | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 |