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, 6 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 185 | 413–235 | 63.7 | 18 | 1886 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 48 | 109–63 | 63.4 | 4 | ||
| Mono Black Aggro | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Heroic | 26 | 74–30 | 71.2 | 4 | ||
| Mono White Heroic | 24 | 67–28 | 70.5 | 4 | ||
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 2 | 7–2 | 77.8 | |||
| Red Deck Wins | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Goblins | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Tokens | 5 | 7–9 | 43.8 | |||
| Mono White Tokens | 5 | 7–9 | 43.8 | |||
| Mono Green Stompy | 3 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
| Affinity | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
| Tempered Steel | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Aggro | 3 | 9–4 | 69.2 | |||
| AggroSlide | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Rakdos Aggro | 4 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |||
| Combo | 4 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Reanimator | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Dimir Cycling Reanimator | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Oriss Genesis | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Hypergenesis | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Control | 7 | 8–8 | 50.0 | |||
| Esper Control | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Dimir Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Ponza | 3 | 7–4 | 63.6 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 7 | 14–9 | 60.9 | 1 | ||
| Aristocrats | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Hushnought | 6 | 14–8 | 63.6 | 1 | ||
| Aggro-Control | 46 | 130–56 | 69.9 | 7 | ||
| Izzet Tempo | 34 | 101–41 | 71.1 | 7 | ||
| Azorius Skies | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Blue Madness | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Temur Madness | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Mono Blue Tempo | 10 | 27–13 | 67.5 | |||
| Mono Blue Faeries | 10 | 27–13 | 67.5 | |||
| Combo-Control | 14 | 23–16 | 59.0 | 1 | ||
| Pickles | 3 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Mindcrank | 6 | 18–9 | 66.7 | 1 | ||
| Yosei Vat | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Hive Mind | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Solar Flare | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Plasma Swans | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mass Land Destruction | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Wildfire | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Thryx-Wildfire | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Midrange | 59 | 129–79 | 62.0 | 5 | ||
| Jund | 2 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |||
| Blink | 20 | 57–25 | 69.5 | 2 | ||
| Allies | 4 | 8–6 | 57.1 | |||
| Orzhov Allies | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
| Mardu Allies | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Mono White Allies | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Rakdos Midrange | 9 | 14–15 | 48.3 | |||
| Big Red | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Mono Black Midrange | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Mono Black Devotion | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Dimir Midrange | 18 | 34–21 | 61.8 | 3 | ||
| Sultai Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Sultai Emerge | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Ordealbreak | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Enigmatic Incarnation | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Hero of Precinct One | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 |
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