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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 96 | 191–85 | 69.2 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 2387 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 8 | 9–8 | 52.9 | |||
| Heroic | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Boros Heroic | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Red Deck Wins | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| White Weenie | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Quest for the Holy Relic | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Elves | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Affinity | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| AggroSlide | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Combo | 52 | 121–45 | 72.9 | 1 | 10 | 5 |
| Reanimator | 19 | 40–17 | 70.2 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Worldgorger Dragon | 19 | 40–17 | 70.2 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Necrotic Ooze Combo | 23 | 65–20 | 76.5 | 1 | 7 | 2 |
| Hypergenesis | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |||
| Jeskai Ascendancy | 4 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |||
| Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 4 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |||
| Eggs | 2 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Blazing Shoal Combo | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
| Ad Nauseam | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 1 | 4–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Wizards | 1 | 4–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 11 | 14–12 | 53.8 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mindcrank | 10 | 11–10 | 52.4 | |||
| Dragoncrank | 8 | 7–9 | 43.8 | |||
| Plasma Swans | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Midrange | 23 | 42–19 | 68.9 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Blink | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Graveyard Value | 21 | 40–18 | 69.0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Varolz Dreadnought | 21 | 40–18 | 69.0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Big Red | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Ramp | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Cloudpost Ramp | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Greenpost | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 |
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