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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 224 | 557–271 | 67.3 | 29 | 1888 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 49 | 94–69 | 57.7 | 2 | ||
| Mono Black Aggro | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Heroic | 8 | 15–13 | 53.6 | |||
| Mono White Heroic | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Azorius Heroic | 7 | 15–12 | 55.6 | |||
| Red Deck Wins | 10 | 27–12 | 69.2 | |||
| Tokens | 6 | 13–7 | 65.0 | |||
| Mono White Tokens | 6 | 13–7 | 65.0 | |||
| Mono Green Stompy | 4 | 5–3 | 62.5 | 1 | ||
| White Weenie | 8 | 18–13 | 58.1 | |||
| Warriors | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Gruul Aggro | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Mono Red Swarm | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Voltron | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Hateful Auras | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Knights | 5 | 9–6 | 60.0 | 1 | ||
| Cats | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono White Cats | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Control | 81 | 241–92 | 72.4 | 11 | ||
| Dimir Control | 15 | 49–17 | 74.2 | 3 | ||
| Azorius Control | 9 | 21–12 | 63.6 | |||
| Izzet Control | 31 | 103–33 | 75.7 | 4 | ||
| Grixis Control | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Cycling Control | 4 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |||
| Astral Slide | 4 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |||
| Guildgate Control | 20 | 60–22 | 73.2 | 4 | ||
| Temur Reclamation | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 11 | 15–17 | 46.9 | |||
| Aristocrats | 11 | 15–17 | 46.9 | |||
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Golgari Aristocrats | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
| Food | 5 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 51 | 135–52 | 72.2 | 13 | ||
| Izzet Tempo | 17 | 53–17 | 75.7 | 7 | ||
| Azorius Skies | 4 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Tempo | 23 | 64–21 | 75.3 | 6 | ||
| Izzet Spells | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Dimir Tempo | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Midrange | 31 | 72–40 | 64.3 | 3 | ||
| Graveyard Value | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Rakdos Midrange | 4 | 7–6 | 53.8 | |||
| Mono Black Midrange | 16 | 27–23 | 54.0 | |||
| Mono Black Devotion | 11 | 18–16 | 52.9 | |||
| Dimir Midrange | 9 | 35–8 | 81.4 | 3 | ||
| Ramp | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Applejacks | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Arcbound Ravager
- Blink of an Eye
- Champion of Wits
- Darksteel Colossus
- Forever Young
- Fumigate
- Glacial Fortress
- Glint Hawk
- Graven Cairns
- Ivory Mask
- Leaden Fists
- Legion's Initiative
- Mirror Entity
- Neutralize
- Pteramander
- Rally for the Throne
- Restoration Angel
- Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
- Shatter the Sky
- Staggering Insight
- Steel Leaf Champion
- Sunken Ruins
- Swarm Guildmage
- Tori D'Avenant, Fury Rider