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)
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Leaderboard
Archetypes
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tempered Steel | 30 | 69–29 | 70.4 | 5 |
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 26 | 59–38 | 60.8 | 3 |
| Curses | 10 | 13–13 | 50.0 | |
| Izzet Tempo | 10 | 22–15 | 59.5 | 1 |
| Combo | 9 | 4–13 | 23.5 | |
| Storm | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Metalwork Colossus | 2 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |
| New Perspectives | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Eye of the Storm | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Mardu Life | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Retraction Helix Combo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Ramp | 9 | 2–13 | 13.3 | |
| Applejacks | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |
| Wildfire | 9 | 6–11 | 35.3 | |
| Sultai Control | 8 | 4–17 | 19.0 | |
| Mono Blue Control | 7 | 7–9 | 43.8 | 1 |
| Demonic Rising | 6 | 18–7 | 72.0 | 1 |
| Dimir Control | 6 | 1–8 | 11.1 | |
| Grixis Breakfast | 6 | 16–10 | 61.5 | |
| Turbo Fog | 6 | 12–10 | 54.5 | |
| Equipment Aggro | 5 | 4–10 | 28.6 | |
| Jeskai Control | 5 | 10–8 | 55.6 | 1 |
| Druid Cephalid Breakfast | 4 | 8–4 | 66.7 | |
| Stax | 4 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |
| Azorius Skies | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |
| Dynavolt Tower | 3 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Displace Loop | 2 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |
| Galleon Control | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Izzet Control | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |
| Lich's Mastery | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |
| Mill | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |
| Traditional Reanimator | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Aggro | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Red Deck Wins | 15 | 24–29 | 45.3 | |
| Mono Black Aggro | 10 | 26–13 | 66.7 | |
| White Weenie | 9 | 21–9 | 70.0 | 1 |
| Chroma White | 9 | 31–12 | 72.1 | 1 |
| Odric Keywords | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |
| Soldiers | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |
| Goblins | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
| Zombies | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Gruul Aggro | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Heroic | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Azorius Heroic | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Boros Heroic | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mono White Heroic | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
| Minotaurs | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Selesnya Little Kid | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Aggro-Combo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Infect | 4 | 2–10 | 16.7 | |
| Mono Black Infect | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Pummeler | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Burn | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Azorius Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Battle of Wits | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Blue Madness | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Grixis Madness | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Boros Vehicles | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Esper Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Four Color Counter Ghazi | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Grixis Control | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Guildgate Control | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Mardu Aristocrats | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Abzan Midrange | 12 | 31–17 | 64.6 | 2 |
| Grenzo | 8 | 21–18 | 53.8 | 1 |
| Elementals | 5 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Allies | 4 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Mardu Allies | 16 | 32–19 | 62.7 | |
| Orzhov Allies | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Blink | 4 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |
| Clerics | 4 | 3–13 | 18.8 | |
| Jund | 4 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |
| Rakdos Midrange | 4 | 3–9 | 25.0 | |
| Enchantments Matter | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Naya Midrange | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Orzhov Midrange | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |
| The Rock | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Vampires | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Mono Black Vampires | 2 | 3–0 | 100.0 | |
| Card Advantage White | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Legends Midrange | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Boros Legends Midrange | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Orzhov Legends | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Black Midrange | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Mono Black Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mono White Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Paradox Haze Lock | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Ponza | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Rakdos Aristocrats | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Rakdos Hellbent | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Séance | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Selesnya Tokens | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Shrines | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 |