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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 208 | 201–280 | 41.8 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 1469 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 49 | 58–70 | 45.3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Mono Black Aggro | 20 | 32–34 | 48.5 | 1 | 4 | |
| Red Deck Wins | 3 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Tokens | 4 | 5–4 | 55.6 | 1 | ||
| Selesnya Tokens | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono White Tokens | 2 | 5–2 | 71.4 | 1 | ||
| White Weenie | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Selesnya Little Kid | 4 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Salvage Titan | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Madness | 3 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
| Gruul Madness | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Rakdos Madness | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Voltron | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Equipment Aggro | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| AggroSlide | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
| Boros Aggro | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |||
| Legends Aggro | 3 | 7–5 | 58.3 | |||
| Boros Legends Aggro | 3 | 7–5 | 58.3 | |||
| Combo | 31 | 17–33 | 34.0 | |||
| Reanimator | 10 | 10–12 | 45.5 | |||
| Recurring Nightmare | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 7 | 9–9 | 50.0 | |||
| Necrotic Ooze Combo | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Umbral Mantle | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Metalwork Colossus | 8 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
| Ominous Good | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Soulflayer | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Breakfast | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Oops All Spells | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Dredge | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Restore Balance | 3 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Control | 16 | 8–17 | 32.0 | |||
| Mono Black Control | 4 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Azorius Control | 5 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
| Grixis Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Dynavolt Tower | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Orzhov Control | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 21 | 45–24 | 65.2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Aristocrats | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Burn | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Trickbind Dreadnought | 17 | 42–21 | 66.7 | 2 | 4 | |
| Izzet Dreadnought | 4 | 16–6 | 72.7 | 1 | 2 | |
| Mono Blue Dreadnought | 13 | 26–15 | 63.4 | 1 | 2 | |
| Aggro-Control | 9 | 7–14 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Izzet Tempo | 6 | 6–10 | 37.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Dimir Tempo | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Midrange | 44 | 24–64 | 27.3 | 0 | 2 | |
| The Rock | 13 | 12–19 | 38.7 | 0 | 2 | |
| Abzan Midrange | 11 | 5–16 | 23.8 | |||
| Anti-Persecution | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Graveyard Value | 10 | 5–16 | 23.8 | |||
| Rakdos Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Black Midrange | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Sultai Midrange | 4 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Ramp | 38 | 34–58 | 37.0 | 0 | 3 | |
| Cloudpost Ramp | 17 | 21–33 | 38.9 | 0 | 3 | |
| Greenpost | 17 | 21–33 | 38.9 | 0 | 3 |