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, 2 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 113–59–18 | 65.7 | 6 | 26 | 1746 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 14 | 34–20–7 | 63.0 | 2 | 7 | |
| Mono Black Aggro | 2 | 8–3–2 | 72.7 | 1 | 2 | |
| Heroic | 5 | 12–8–3 | 60.0 | 0 | 3 | |
| Mono White Heroic | 5 | 12–8–3 | 60.0 | 0 | 3 | |
| Red Deck Wins | 1 | 6–0–1 | 100.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Tokens | 4 | 4–4–1 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Selesnya Tokens | 4 | 4–4–1 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| White Weenie | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
| Combo | 8 | 21–9–2 | 70.0 | 1 | 5 | |
| Reanimator | 6 | 17–7–2 | 70.8 | 1 | 4 | |
| Traditional Reanimator | 6 | 17–7–2 | 70.8 | 1 | 4 | |
| Stuffy Doll | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Control | 12 | 32–16–6 | 66.7 | 3 | 8 | |
| Mono Black Control | 1 | |||||
| Demonic Rising | 9 | 28–12–5 | 70.0 | 3 | 7 | |
| Mardu Control | 1 | 4–2–1 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
| Combo-Control | 7 | 18–9–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 4 | |
| Burning Vengeance | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Mass Land Destruction | 5 | 16–7–2 | 69.6 | 0 | 4 | |
| Wildfire | 5 | 16–7–2 | 69.6 | 0 | 4 | |
| Borderpost Wildfire | 5 | 16–7–2 | 69.6 | 0 | 4 | |
| Midrange | 2 | 4–5–1 | 44.4 | 0 | 2 | |
| Temur Ascendancy | 1 | 2–2–1 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Grenzo | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Cards Played First
- Advent of the Wurm
- Beast Attack
- Blighted Steppe
- Boggart Birth Rite
- Crawling Sensation
- Delirium Skeins
- Druidic Satchel
- Essence Extraction
- Ever After
- Forbidding Watchtower
- Fossil Find
- Fragmentize
- Gigapede
- Grenzo, Dungeon Warden
- Intimidation Bolt
- Lagonna-Band Trailblazer
- Lightning Mauler
- Midnight Oil
- Nezumi Graverobber
- Predatory Nightstalker
- Recoup
- Rise // Fall
- Sandwurm Convergence
- Scourglass
- Secrets of the Dead
- Sink into Takenuma
- Spirit Loop
- Sundering Growth
- Temporal Isolation
- Travel Preparations
- Unwilling Recruit
- Vigor Mortis