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, 5 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 244 | 483–422 | 53.4 | 5 | 80 | 8 | 1731 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 67 | 144–115 | 55.6 | 3 | 25 | 3 |
| Mono Black Aggro | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Heroic | 6 | 15–10 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mono White Heroic | 5 | 13–8 | 61.9 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Boros Heroic | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Red Deck Wins | 7 | 11–12 | 47.8 | 0 | 2 | |
| White Weenie | 26 | 70–37 | 65.4 | 3 | 15 | 1 |
| Soldiers | 26 | 70–37 | 65.4 | 3 | 15 | 1 |
| Voltron | 7 | 8–14 | 36.4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Equipment Aggro | 7 | 8–14 | 36.4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Humans | 14 | 30–28 | 51.7 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| Boros Humans | 4 | 8–8 | 50.0 | |||
| Orzhov Humans | 10 | 22–20 | 52.4 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| Legends Aggro | 6 | 9–10 | 47.4 | 0 | 2 | |
| Boros Legends Aggro | 5 | 8–7 | 53.3 | 0 | 2 | |
| Bard Class | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Combo | 33 | 53–52 | 50.5 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
| Blazing Shoal Combo | 5 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
| Breakfast | 4 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |||
| Oops All Spells | 4 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |||
| Calibrated Blast | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Midnight Mass | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Actual Twin | 21 | 38–34 | 52.8 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| Izzet Twin | 21 | 38–34 | 52.8 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| Control | 29 | 54–43 | 55.7 | 0 | 7 | 2 |
| Ponza | 29 | 54–43 | 55.7 | 0 | 7 | 2 |
| Aggro-Combo | 4 | 7–9 | 43.8 | |||
| Burn | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Infect | 3 | 7–7 | 50.0 | |||
| Simic Infect | 3 | 7–7 | 50.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 54 | 101–105 | 49.0 | 1 | 15 | 2 |
| Izzet Tempo | 3 | 9–5 | 64.3 | |||
| Mono Blue Tempo | 5 | 9–8 | 52.9 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Dimir Tempo | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Azorius Tempo | 3 | 7–6 | 53.8 | |||
| Midrange | 54 | 87–94 | 48.1 | 1 | 26 | |
| The Rock | 3 | 2–8 | 20.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Jund | 18 | 26–27 | 49.1 | 0 | 2 | |
| White Jund | 7 | 13–13 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Heartless Summoning Stompy | 26 | 46–46 | 50.0 | 1 | 21 | |
| Ramp | 3 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
| Rofellos Ramp | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
| Cloudpost Ramp | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Greenpost | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 |