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 9 weeks, 4 days.
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 203 | 284–272–8 | 51.1 | 7 | 29 | 2 |
| Mono Black Aggro | 6 | 8–5–2 | 61.5 | 1 | 2 | |
| Heroic | 32 | 47–46–1 | 50.5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Mono White Heroic | 15 | 27–18–1 | 60.0 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Azorius Heroic | 10 | 14–17 | 45.2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 3 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
| Boros Heroic | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Selesnya Heroic | 1 | |||||
| Red Deck Wins | 24 | 66–29–3 | 69.5 | 3 | 10 | |
| Mono Red Devotion | 7 | 11–9–1 | 55.0 | 0 | 3 | |
| Goblins | 5 | 8–6 | 57.1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Tokens | 11 | 15–15 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Selesnya Tokens | 8 | 14–12 | 53.8 | 0 | 2 | |
| Mono Green Stompy | 10 | 17–12–1 | 58.6 | 0 | 2 | |
| White Weenie | 21 | 36–29–1 | 55.4 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Odric Keywords | 11 | 21–14–1 | 60.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Soldiers | 1 | |||||
| Kithkin | 1 | 5–2 | 71.4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Elves | 19 | 28–29 | 49.1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Werewolves | 5 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Minotaurs | 5 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Warriors | 1 | |||||
| Rogues | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Zombies | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Gruul Aggro | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Merfolk | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 3 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Affinity | 3 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Devoid Aggro | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Aggro | 4 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
| Madness | 9 | 17–23 | 42.5 | |||
| Gruul Madness | 5 | 11–10 | 52.4 | |||
| Rakdos Madness | 3 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |||
| Voltron | 4 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
| Equipment Aggro | 4 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
| Slivers | 9 | 4–16 | 20.0 | |||
| Combo | 135 | 176–174–1 | 50.3 | 0 | 17 | 4 |
| Storm | 9 | 13–12–1 | 52.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Dimir Tendrils | 6 | 8–10–1 | 44.4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Reanimator | 52 | 93–76 | 55.0 | 0 | 6 | 3 |
| Recurring Nightmare | 17 | 28–25 | 52.8 | 2 | ||
| Jund Nightmare | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Worldgorger Dragon | 22 | 46–35 | 56.8 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Traditional Reanimator | 13 | 19–16 | 54.3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Dimir Reanimator | 3 | 7–5 | 58.3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Biovisionary | 7 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Necrotic Ooze Combo | 12 | 22–11 | 66.7 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Warp World | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Actual Warp World | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Maniac Combo | 1 | |||||
| Myr Incubator | 1 | |||||
| Breakfast | 5 | 11–11 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Cephalid Breakfast | 5 | 11–11 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Druid Cephalid Breakfast | 5 | 11–11 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Stuffy Doll | 4 | 5–5 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Control | 178 | 286–237–8 | 54.7 | 6 | 36 | 1 |
| Mono Black Control | 13 | 15–13 | 53.6 | 0 | 2 | |
| Esper Control | 4 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
| Demonic Rising | 11 | 28–20 | 58.3 | 0 | 3 | |
| Mono Blue Control | 7 | 7–5 | 58.3 | |||
| Dimir Control | 53 | 110–81–2 | 57.6 | 3 | 11 | |
| Azorius Control | 10 | 11–18–1 | 37.9 | 0 | 2 | |
| Izzet Control | 5 | 4–6 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mill | 2 | |||||
| Boros Control | 4 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
| Cloudpost Control | 45 | 93–52–5 | 64.1 | 3 | 16 | 1 |
| Azorius Cloudpost Control | 36 | 88–51–5 | 63.3 | 3 | 16 | |
| Dimir Cloudpost Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Grixis Control | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Stax | 3 | 5–2 | 71.4 | |||
| Jeskai Control | 3 | 3–7 | 30.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Ponza | 2 | |||||
| Mono White Control | 1 | |||||
| Guildgate Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 28 | 13–36 | 26.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Aristocrats | 3 | |||||
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 1 | |||||
| Abzan Aristocrats | 1 | |||||
| Mardu Aristocrats | 1 | |||||
| Burn | 7 | 5–5 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Infect | 13 | 4–21 | 16.0 | |||
| Mono Black Infect | 3 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 46 | 58–58 | 50.0 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| Simic Flash | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Izzet Tempo | 6 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Azorius Skies | 6 | 12–9 | 57.1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Blue Madness | 15 | 31–25 | 55.4 | 1 | 3 | |
| Simic Madness | 12 | 25–22 | 53.2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Grixis Madness | 3 | 6–3 | 66.7 | |||
| Izzet Spells | 1 | 6–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
| Combo-Control | 43 | 52–53 | 49.5 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| Burning Vengeance | 11 | 24–15 | 61.5 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| Battle of Wits | 8 | 7–14 | 33.3 | |||
| Sunforger | 1 | |||||
| Hedron Alignment | 1 | |||||
| Zur's Weirding | 1 | |||||
| Mass Land Destruction | 18 | 19–21 | 47.5 | |||
| Wildfire | 18 | 19–21 | 47.5 | |||
| Borderpost Wildfire | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
| Midrange | 115 | 100–130–5 | 43.5 | 0 | 12 | |
| Temur Ascendancy | 4 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| The Rock | 4 | 5–1 | 83.3 | |||
| Grenzo | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Abzan Midrange | 13 | 17–13 | 56.7 | 0 | 2 | |
| Jund | 9 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |||
| Blink | 6 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Wave Blink | 1 | |||||
| Graveyard Value | 9 | 6–14 | 30.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Enchantments Matter | 3 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Orzhov Enchantress | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Allies | 6 | 7–10 | 41.2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Orzhov Allies | 5 | 5–8 | 38.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Fake-Rack | 6 | 1–15 | 6.3 | |||
| Vampires | 3 | 7–4 | 63.6 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mono Black Vampires | 3 | 7–4 | 63.6 | 0 | 1 | |
| Legends Midrange | 1 | |||||
| Elementals | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Big Red | 1 | |||||
| Mono Black Midrange | 21 | 36–32–4 | 52.9 | 0 | 6 | |
| Sultai Midrange | 3 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
| Sultai Emerge | 2 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
| Orzhov Midrange | 4 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Artifact Midrange | 1 | |||||
| Ramp | 68 | 65–74–2 | 46.8 | 0 | 6 | |
| Villainous Wealth | 4 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Cloudpost Ramp | 45 | 43–51 | 45.7 | 0 | 2 | |
| Eldrazipost | 15 | 13–21 | 38.2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Greenpost | 11 | 9–9 | 50.0 | |||
| Gruul Post | 4 | 9–5 | 64.3 | |||
| Simic Post | 6 | 6–5 | 54.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Domain | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Unclassified | 2 | |||||
| Commander | 1 |