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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 175 | 310–182 | 63.0 | 2 | 18 | 16 | 2387 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 51 | 77–54 | 58.8 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Heroic | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mono White Heroic | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Goblins | 14 | 20–14 | 58.8 | 1 | ||
| White Weenie | 11 | 14–11 | 56.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Quest for the Holy Relic | 11 | 14–11 | 56.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Elves | 6 | 12–6 | 66.7 | 1 | ||
| Zombies | 15 | 26–17 | 60.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| AggroSlide | 3 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
| Cats | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Selesnya Cats | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo | 52 | 94–49 | 65.7 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Storm | 9 | 11–8 | 57.9 | |||
| High Tide | 9 | 11–8 | 57.9 | |||
| Reanimator | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Black Reanimator | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Metalwork Colossus | 18 | 36–19 | 65.5 | 3 | ||
| Izzet Ascension | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Breakfast | 23 | 47–20 | 70.1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Hermit Dredge | 20 | 45–17 | 72.6 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Neoform Hermit | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 5 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
| Aristocrats | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Rakdos Aristocrats | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Burn | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Hermit Humans | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Izzet Tempo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Midrange | 64 | 130–71 | 64.7 | 1 | 12 | 6 |
| Blink | 37 | 75–39 | 65.8 | 0 | 6 | 4 |
| Wave Blink | 37 | 75–39 | 65.8 | 0 | 6 | 4 |
| Azorius Wave | 33 | 72–35 | 67.3 | 0 | 6 | 4 |
| Orzhov Wave | 4 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
| Graveyard Value | 5 | 10–4 | 71.4 | 1 | ||
| Varolz Dreadnought | 5 | 10–4 | 71.4 | 1 | ||
| Rakdos Midrange | 10 | 14–11 | 56.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Big Red | 12 | 31–17 | 64.6 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Ramp | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Eureka! | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Adeliz, the Cinder Wind
- Banishing Knack
- Bar the Door
- Bone Shards
- Corridor Monitor
- Eureka
- Fractal Summoning
- Gaddock Teeg
- Garrison Cat
- Ghalta, Primal Hunger
- Ghoulcaller's Harvest
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Herald of Hadar
- High Tide
- Hurly-Burly
- Ichorid
- Kudo, King Among Bears
- Lead the Stampede
- Locthwain Gargoyle
- Mercurial Transformation
- Rapacious One
- Redcap Melee
- Sandstorm Salvager
- Satyr's Cunning
- Selfless Savior
- Shield Mate
- Slip Out the Back
- Soul-Guide Lantern
- The Underworld Cookbook
- Thousand-Year Storm
- Vampire Opportunist
- Venerated Loxodon
- Vengeful Dead
- Vigorous Charge
- Vilis, Broker of Blood
- Whipflare