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 9 weeks, 4 days.
Decks
Record
# Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
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1161 | 2208–1678 | 56.8 | 6 | 31 | 75 | 1853 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 429 | 930–560 | 62.4 | 3 | 9 | 44 |
Mono Black Aggro | 22 | 40–31 | 56.3 | 1 | ||
Heroic | 28 | 55–42 | 56.7 | 2 | ||
Mono White Heroic | 6 | 14–5 | 73.7 | |||
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 21 | 39–36 | 52.0 | 2 | ||
Selesnya Heroic | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Red Deck Wins | 137 | 391–149 | 72.4 | 1 | 1 | 27 |
Mono Red Devotion | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Proliferate Red | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
Goblins | 3 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Tokens | 13 | 18–21 | 46.2 | 1 | ||
Selesnya Tokens | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
Mardu Tokens | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Mono White Tokens | 6 | 6–8 | 42.9 | 1 | ||
Mono Green Stompy | 16 | 31–21 | 59.6 | 2 | ||
White Weenie | 51 | 103–66 | 60.9 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
Odric Keywords | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
Quest for the Holy Relic | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Soldiers | 8 | 15–6 | 71.4 | 1 | ||
Chroma White | 4 | 9–7 | 56.3 | |||
Mono White Humans | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Elves | 10 | 14–17 | 45.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Warriors | 4 | 5–2 | 71.4 | 1 | ||
Selesnya Little Kid | 10 | 23–20 | 53.5 | 1 | ||
Selesnya Counters | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Rogues | 3 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Zombies | 3 | 8–5 | 61.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Gruul Aggro | 27 | 44–38 | 53.7 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Gruul Landfall | 8 | 16–14 | 53.3 | |||
Merfolk | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Mono Red Swarm | 8 | 19–5 | 79.2 | 1 | ||
8 Whack | 4 | 10–4 | 71.4 | |||
Artifact Aggro | 34 | 67–48 | 58.3 | |||
Affinity | 16 | 30–26 | 53.6 | |||
Hush-finity | 2 | 6–2 | 75.0 | |||
Tempered Steel | 16 | 33–20 | 62.3 | |||
Mono Blue Architect | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |||
Devoid Aggro | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Blue Aggro | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Illusions | 1 | |||||
Madness | 3 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
Golgari Madness | 3 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
Voltron | 3 | 8–5 | 61.5 | |||
Hateful Auras | 3 | 8–5 | 61.5 | |||
Naya Zoo | 4 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
Knights | 12 | 23–11 | 67.6 | 1 | ||
AggroSlide | 7 | 23–15 | 60.5 | 1 | 3 | |
Cats | 3 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
Selesnya Cats | 3 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
Rakdos Aggro | 8 | 14–9 | 60.9 | 1 | ||
Boros Aggro | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
Humans | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Orzhov Humans | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Brushwaggs | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Legends Aggro | 6 | 10–6 | 62.5 | |||
Boros Legends Aggro | 4 | 7–5 | 58.3 | |||
Selesnya Legends Aggro | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Bard Class | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Combo | 35 | 53–58 | 47.7 | 0 | 2 | |
Storm | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
Citadel Storm | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Stormpost | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Mono Blue Post Desire | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Reanimator | 15 | 22–22 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Recurring Nightmare | 9 | 14–12 | 53.8 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 6 | 8–10 | 44.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Rakdos Reanimator | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Dimir Reanimator | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Mono Black Reanimator | 3 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Hypergenesis | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Combo Post | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Metalwork Colossus | 6 | 12–9 | 57.1 | |||
Upheaval Colossus | 5 | 11–6 | 64.7 | |||
Jokulhaups Combo | 2 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
Soulflayer | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Breakfast | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Oops All Spells | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Dredge | 4 | 9–6 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Control | 126 | 186–197 | 48.6 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Mono Black Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Esper Control | 3 | 8–4 | 66.7 | |||
Demonic Rising | 10 | 18–15 | 54.5 | |||
Dimir Control | 10 | 14–16 | 46.7 | |||
Azorius Control | 17 | 24–19 | 55.8 | 1 | ||
Cawblade | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Mardu Control | 3 | 3–7 | 30.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Mill | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Boros Control | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Cloudpost Control | 11 | 22–13 | 62.9 | |||
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 3 | 9–5 | 64.3 | |||
Dimir Cloudpost Control | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Mono White Cloudpost Control | 6 | 11–5 | 68.8 | |||
Grixis Control | 7 | 9–15 | 37.5 | |||
Cruel Control | 3 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
Stax | 11 | 13–21 | 38.2 | |||
Pollute the Planet | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Jeskai Control | 5 | 9–8 | 52.9 | |||
Dragon Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Grixis Dragons | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Ponza | 5 | 7–7 | 50.0 | |||
Mono White Control | 9 | 6–12 | 33.3 | |||
Life is Ez | 8 | 6–11 | 35.3 | |||
Dynavolt Tower | 1 | |||||
Cycling Control | 6 | 4–12 | 25.0 | |||
Astral Slide | 6 | 4–12 | 25.0 | |||
Five Color Control | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Last Stand Control | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Guildgate Control | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Bant Control | 1 | |||||
Pox | 11 | 26–18 | 59.1 | |||
Seasons Past Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Orzhov Control | 5 | 12–9 | 57.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Aggro-Combo | 56 | 105–70 | 60.0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
Aristocrats | 14 | 27–22 | 55.1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Mono Black Aristocrats | 5 | 9–8 | 52.9 | |||
Orzhov Aristocrats | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Golgari Aristocrats | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Food | 4 | 8–4 | 66.7 | 1 | ||
Rakdos Aristocrats | 3 | 7–5 | 58.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Burn | 12 | 26–11 | 70.3 | 2 | ||
Infect | 12 | 21–15 | 58.3 | 1 | ||
Simic Infect | 2 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Golgari Infect | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
Mono Black Infect | 4 | 10–6 | 62.5 | |||
Pummeler | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Trickbind Dreadnought | 4 | 5–5 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Blue Dreadnought | 4 | 5–5 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Hushnought | 10 | 23–12 | 65.7 | 1 | ||
Liquimetal Fishing | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Aggro-Control | 69 | 134–84 | 61.5 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
Simic Flash | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Izzet Tempo | 27 | 59–31 | 65.6 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Azorius Skies | 2 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Blue Madness | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Temur Madness | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Lich Aggro-Control | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Mono Blue Tempo | 18 | 41–22 | 65.1 | 2 | ||
Izzet Spells | 5 | 6–6 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Dimir Tempo | 3 | 10–5 | 66.7 | |||
Azorius Tempo | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Combo-Control | 20 | 18–30 | 37.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Curses | 3 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
Cruel Combo-Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Battle of Wits | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Liliana's Contract | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mass Land Destruction | 12 | 12–15 | 44.4 | |||
Wildfire | 7 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |||
Borderpost Wildfire | 5 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
Jokulhaups Control | 5 | 7–6 | 53.8 | |||
Jeskai Jokulhaups Control | 3 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |||
Greasefang | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Orzhov Greasefang | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Midrange | 360 | 691–563 | 55.1 | 2 | 11 | 19 |
Temur Ascendancy | 19 | 41–39 | 51.3 | |||
The Rock | 8 | 13–14 | 48.1 | |||
Grenzo | 4 | 10–7 | 58.8 | |||
Abzan Midrange | 21 | 42–37 | 53.2 | |||
Selesnya Midrange | 6 | 16–5 | 76.2 | 1 | ||
Selesnya Value Town | 6 | 16–5 | 76.2 | 1 | ||
Jund | 30 | 63–49 | 56.3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Blink | 24 | 44–35 | 55.7 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Wave Blink | 8 | 14–13 | 51.9 | |||
Cloudpost Wave Blink | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Azorius Wave | 3 | 7–4 | 63.6 | |||
Orzhov Wave | 3 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
Abzan Wave | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Orzhov Blink | 7 | 11–11 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Graveyard Value | 24 | 62–27 | 69.7 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
Séance | 18 | 52–18 | 74.3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
Varolz Dreadnought | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Enchantments Matter | 4 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |||
Orzhov Enchantress | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Constellation | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Fake-Rack | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Mardu Midrange | 24 | 56–32 | 63.6 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
White Jund | 2 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
Vampires | 3 | 11–4 | 73.3 | |||
Mono Black Vampires | 3 | 11–4 | 73.3 | |||
Legends Midrange | 26 | 47–36 | 56.6 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Boros Legends Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mardu Legends | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Orzhov Legends | 6 | 12–9 | 57.1 | |||
Selesnya Legends | 8 | 26–7 | 78.8 | 2 | ||
Elementals | 1 | |||||
Rakdos Midrange | 23 | 51–40 | 56.0 | |||
Naya Midrange | 7 | 12–18 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Big Red | 8 | 8–12 | 40.0 | |||
Mono Black Midrange | 27 | 51–47 | 52.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Mono Black Devotion | 12 | 23–14 | 62.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Heart of Darkness | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Hellion Whip | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |||
Dimir Midrange | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Toughness Matters | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Lifegain Midrange | 5 | 6–11 | 35.3 | |||
Adventures | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
Sultai Midrange | 3 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |||
Sultai Energy | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Orzhov Midrange | 23 | 41–34 | 54.7 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Heartless Summoning Stompy | 5 | 7–7 | 50.0 | |||
Hero of Precinct One | 15 | 38–17 | 69.1 | 3 | ||
Abzan Hero | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
Mardu Hero | 2 | 6–3 | 66.7 | |||
Esper Hero | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
Orzhov Hero | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Five Color Hero | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Naya Hero | 2 | 8–2 | 80.0 | 1 | ||
Jeskai Hero | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Clerics | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Simic Snow | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Artifact Midrange | 10 | 11–12 | 47.8 | 1 | ||
Death Cloud | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Illness in the Ranks | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Game Objects | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Ramp | 65 | 81–116 | 41.1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Rofellos Ramp | 25 | 36–34 | 51.4 | 2 | ||
Channel-Rofellos | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
Cloudpost Ramp | 18 | 26–40 | 39.4 | |||
Locus Awakening | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Golgari Post | 4 | 7–9 | 43.8 | |||
Greenpost | 7 | 10–12 | 45.5 | |||
Simic Post | 2 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Domain | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Summer Bloom Ramp | 4 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
Carth Superfriends | 4 | 3–4 | 42.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Jund Carth | 3 | 3–3 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Ashnod's Harvester
- Azor, the Lawbringer
- Basilica Bell-Haunt
- Blazing Volley
- Blood-Cursed Knight
- Burrenton Bombardier
- Circuit Mender
- Fresh-Faced Recruit
- Healer's Flock
- Heidar, Rimewind Master
- Howling Galefang
- Illness in the Ranks
- Impeccable Timing
- Imperial Ceratops
- Ironshell Beetle
- King of the Pride
- Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
- Mesa Unicorn
- Nylea's Forerunner
- Nyxborn Rollicker
- Qarsi Deceiver
- Ravenous Baboons
- Rebound
- Rocco, Street Chef
- Shell Shield
- Suture Priest
- Sweep Away
- Talisman of Resilience
- Timberland Guide
- Torpid Moloch
- Veteran Explorer
- Yoked Ox