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, 2 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 198 | 471–239 | 66.3 | 1 | 33 | 1877 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 47 | 129–51 | 71.7 | 11 | ||
| Heroic | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono White Heroic | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Red Deck Wins | 4 | 11–4 | 73.3 | 1 | ||
| Tokens | 11 | 37–12 | 75.5 | 2 | ||
| Mono White Tokens | 11 | 37–12 | 75.5 | 2 | ||
| White Weenie | 9 | 24–12 | 66.7 | 1 | ||
| Selesnya Little Kid | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Zombies | 4 | 7–5 | 58.3 | 1 | ||
| Voltron | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Hexproof | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Knights | 11 | 31–8 | 79.5 | 4 | ||
| AggroSlide | 2 | 10–0 | 100.0 | 2 | ||
| Cats | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Combo | 16 | 27–19 | 58.7 | 2 | ||
| Reanimator | 6 | 7–7 | 50.0 | 1 | ||
| Worldgorger Dragon | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Oriss Genesis | 5 | 15–4 | 78.9 | 1 | ||
| Dubious Challenge | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
| Blazing Shoal Combo | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Breakfast | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Hermit Dredge | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Protean Hulk Combo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Control | 26 | 61–31 | 66.3 | 5 | ||
| Mono Black Control | 7 | 20–8 | 71.4 | 2 | ||
| Dimir Control | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Turbo Fog | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
| Stax | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Jeskai Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Ponza | 11 | 32–13 | 71.1 | 2 | ||
| Mono White Control | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 9 | 22–13 | 62.9 | |||
| Aristocrats | 6 | 17–9 | 65.4 | |||
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 5 | 14–7 | 66.7 | |||
| Burn | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
| Hermit Humans | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 21 | 60–26 | 69.8 | 5 | ||
| Izzet Tempo | 9 | 27–10 | 73.0 | 2 | ||
| Azorius Skies | 11 | 31–13 | 70.5 | 3 | ||
| Mono Blue Tempo | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 6 | 13–8 | 61.9 | 1 | ||
| Pickles | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Solar Flare | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Mass Land Destruction | 4 | 12–5 | 70.6 | 1 | ||
| Wildfire | 4 | 12–5 | 70.6 | 1 | ||
| Thryx-Wildfire | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Borderpost Wildfire | 3 | 11–3 | 78.6 | 1 | ||
| Midrange | 68 | 152–83 | 64.7 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| Blink | 10 | 23–11 | 67.6 | 1 | ||
| Wave Blink | 6 | 15–6 | 71.4 | |||
| Azorius Wave | 5 | 11–5 | 68.8 | |||
| Graveyard Value | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Varolz Dreadnought | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Elementals | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Rakdos Midrange | 28 | 67–32 | 67.7 | 4 | ||
| Big Red | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Black Midrange | 17 | 40–21 | 65.6 | 3 | ||
| Davriel Braids | 6 | 10–7 | 58.8 | |||
| Dimir Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Dimir Vat | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Lifegain Midrange | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Sultai Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Sultai Emerge | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Orzhov Midrange | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Mythic Colossification | 3 | 8–4 | 66.7 | |||
| Neoform | 3 | 8–3 | 72.7 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Temur Neoform | 3 | 8–3 | 72.7 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Ramp | 5 | 7–8 | 46.7 | |||
| Cloudpost Ramp | 3 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Greenpost | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
| Eureka! | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 |
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