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, 1 day.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 77–76 | 50.3 | 2 | 1712 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 6 | 12–13 | 48.0 | |||
| Tokens | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |||
| Orzhov Tokens | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |||
| White Weenie | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Quest for the Holy Relic | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Elves | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Mono Red Swarm | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| 8 Whack | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Tempered Steel | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Combo | 5 | 11–8 | 57.9 | |||
| Reanimator | 2 | 5–2 | 71.4 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 2 | 5–2 | 71.4 | |||
| Mono Black Reanimator | 2 | 5–2 | 71.4 | |||
| Metalwork Colossus | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
| Upheaval Colossus | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Stuffy Doll | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Control | 5 | 12–7 | 63.2 | 1 | ||
| Cloudpost Control | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
| Mono White Cloudpost Control | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
| Ponza | 2 | 8–2 | 80.0 | 1 | ||
| Aggro-Combo | 5 | 10–10 | 50.0 | |||
| Hushnought | 5 | 10–10 | 50.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 3 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |||
| Mono Blue Tempo | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Sultai Tempo | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Midrange | 14 | 25–28 | 47.2 | 1 | ||
| Blink | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
| Wave Blink | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
| Azorius Wave | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
| Fake-Rack | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Legends Midrange | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
| Selesnya Legends | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
| Big Red | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
| Dimir Midrange | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Toughness Matters | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Prophet Glare | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Ordealbreak | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Enigmatic Incarnation | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Fires of Invention | 3 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
| Ramp | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Summer Bloom Ramp | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Historic Bloom | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 |