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 8 weeks, 3 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 179 | 362–349 | 50.9 | 1 | 5 | 1692 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 72 | 167–117 | 58.8 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Heroic | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Mono White Heroic | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Red Deck Wins | 15 | 32–23 | 58.2 | 1 | ||
| Goblins | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Tokens | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Mono White Tokens | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Mono Green Stompy | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| White Weenie | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Quest for the Holy Relic | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Elves | 11 | 33–18 | 64.7 | |||
| Zombies | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
| Gruul Aggro | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Merfolk | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
| Mono Red Swarm | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 2 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
| Affinity | 1 | 3–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Tempered Steel | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Voltron | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Hateful Auras | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Knights | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |||
| AggroSlide | 26 | 75–42 | 64.1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Combo | 7 | 10–14 | 41.7 | |||
| Necrotic Ooze Combo | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Warp World | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Four Color Glimpse | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Hypergenesis | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Izzet Ascension | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Breakfast | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Oops All Spells | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| GreenTwin | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Control | 32 | 54–71 | 43.2 | |||
| Mono Black Control | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Esper Control | 5 | 4–11 | 26.7 | |||
| Dimir Control | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Azorius Control | 7 | 14–19 | 42.4 | |||
| Boros Control | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Cloudpost Control | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Grixis Control | 3 | 10–4 | 71.4 | |||
| Cruel Control | 3 | 10–4 | 71.4 | |||
| Stax | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Ponza | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Mono White Control | 8 | 12–16 | 42.9 | |||
| Life is Ez | 8 | 12–16 | 42.9 | |||
| Cycling Control | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Astral Slide | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Seasons Past Control | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 4 | 13–5 | 72.2 | 1 | ||
| Aristocrats | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
| Rakdos Aristocrats | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
| Burn | 2 | 8–2 | 80.0 | |||
| Combo Goblins | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Goblin Persist | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 10 | 23–23 | 50.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Tempo | 3 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |||
| Izzet Spells | 7 | 18–14 | 56.3 | |||
| Combo-Control | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Curses | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Midrange | 39 | 75–85 | 46.9 | |||
| Jund | 16 | 32–36 | 47.1 | |||
| Big Red | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Mono Black Midrange | 7 | 18–11 | 62.1 | |||
| Mono Black Devotion | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Dimir Midrange | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Lifegain Midrange | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
| Martyr's Grace | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Orzhov Midrange | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Party | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Fires of Invention | 3 | 2–13 | 13.3 | |||
| Hero of Precinct One | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Abzan Hero | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Naya Hero | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Simic Snow | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
| Death Cloud | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Ramp | 13 | 20–29 | 40.8 | |||
| Cloudpost Ramp | 11 | 19–26 | 42.2 | |||
| Greenpost | 7 | 13–17 | 43.3 | |||
| Gruul Post | 4 | 6–9 | 40.0 | |||
| Carth Superfriends | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Jund Carth | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 |