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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 151 | 170–208 | 45.0 | 4 | 2 | 1424 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 23 | 26–29 | 47.3 | |||
| White Weenie | 10 | 13–12 | 52.0 | |||
| Quest for the Holy Relic | 10 | 13–12 | 52.0 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 9 | 10–14 | 41.7 | |||
| Affinity | 9 | 10–14 | 41.7 | |||
| Mono Red Eldrazi | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Legends Aggro | 2 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Bard Class | 2 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Permanent Vacation | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo | 40 | 46–48 | 48.9 | |||
| Storm | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Channel Storm | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Reanimator | 13 | 24–16 | 60.0 | |||
| Recurring Nightmare | 5 | 7–8 | 46.7 | |||
| Worldgorger Dragon | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 7 | 14–7 | 66.7 | |||
| Rakdos Reanimator | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Black Reanimator | 6 | 14–6 | 70.0 | |||
| Necrotic Ooze Combo | 3 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
| Metalwork Colossus | 14 | 17–18 | 48.6 | |||
| Upheaval Colossus | 14 | 17–18 | 48.6 | |||
| Eye of the Storm | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Eggs | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Breakfast | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Oops All Spells | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Dredge | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Insidious Roots Dredge | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Tameshi Bloom | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Control | 4 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |||
| Esper Control | 3 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
| Prison | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Enchantress | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Infect | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Golgari Infect | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 21 | 26–38 | 40.6 | 0 | 1 | |
| Curses | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Zur's Weirding | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Mass Land Destruction | 18 | 24–35 | 40.7 | 0 | 1 | |
| Wildfire | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Jokulhaups Control | 16 | 23–31 | 42.6 | 0 | 1 | |
| Jeskai Jokulhaups Control | 3 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
| Temur Jokulhaups Control | 5 | 7–15 | 31.8 | |||
| WUBR Jokulhaups Control | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Midrange | 33 | 23–45 | 33.8 | 0 | 1 | |
| Grenzo | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Blink | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Wave Blink | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Cloudpost Wave Blink | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Mono Black Midrange | 5 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |||
| Heart of Darkness | 5 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |||
| Sultai Midrange | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Fight Rigging | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Heartless Summoning Stompy | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Fires of Invention | 24 | 13–34 | 27.7 | 0 | 1 | |
| Ramp | 29 | 42–41 | 50.6 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Rofellos Ramp | 6 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |||
| Cloudpost Ramp | 18 | 29–27 | 51.8 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Greenpost | 4 | 5–11 | 31.3 | |||
| Gruul Post | 7 | 16–7 | 69.6 | 2 | ||
| Simic Post | 7 | 8–9 | 47.1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Field Ramp | 5 | 8–5 | 61.5 |