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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 170 | 277–208 | 57.1 | 3 | 15 | 7 | 2382 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 83 | 173–99 | 63.6 | 3 | 11 | 6 |
| Mono Black Aggro | 3 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
| Heroic | 62 | 144–74 | 66.1 | 3 | 11 | 4 |
| Mono White Heroic | 55 | 135–67 | 66.8 | 3 | 11 | 4 |
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 7 | 9–7 | 56.3 | |||
| White Weenie | 5 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
| Merfolk | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 4 | 10–4 | 71.4 | 1 | ||
| Affinity | 4 | 10–4 | 71.4 | 1 | ||
| Madness | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Gruul Madness | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Voltron | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Hexproof | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| AggroSlide | 4 | 9–3 | 75.0 | 1 | ||
| Combo | 23 | 36–34 | 51.4 | 0 | 4 | |
| Storm | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Stormpost | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
| Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
| Eggs | 8 | 11–11 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Ad Nauseam | 8 | 19–12 | 61.3 | 0 | 2 | |
| Ad Swanseam | 8 | 19–12 | 61.3 | 0 | 2 | |
| Control | 13 | 12–14 | 46.2 | |||
| Esper Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Turbo Fog | 1 | 4–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Jeskai Control | 5 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
| Mono White Control | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Life is Ez | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Five Color Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Prison | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Enchantress | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 10 | 12–13 | 48.0 | |||
| Burn | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Infect | 8 | 10–10 | 50.0 | |||
| Blazing Shoal Infect | 4 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
| Trickbind Dreadnought | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Dreadnought | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Azorius Skies | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Dimir Tempo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 16 | 22–19 | 53.7 | 1 | ||
| Hive Mind | 10 | 17–11 | 60.7 | 1 | ||
| Zur's Weirding | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Solar Flare | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Plasma Swans | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
| Midrange | 16 | 12–19 | 38.7 | |||
| Grenzo | 8 | 6–10 | 37.5 | |||
| Blink | 5 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
| Rakdos Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Dimir Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Ramp | 7 | 6–9 | 40.0 | |||
| Rofellos Ramp | 3 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
| Cloudpost Ramp | 4 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Greenpost | 4 | 1–4 | 20.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- +2 Mace
- Adarkar Wastes
- Ajani, Caller of the Pride
- Blessed Defiance
- Brightling
- Chainer, Nightmare Adept
- Chancellor of the Tangle
- Combat Thresher
- Damn
- Daybreak Coronet
- Defiler of Vigor
- Demonic Bargain
- Doomsday Excruciator
- Dread Fugue
- Dread Presence
- Echoing Return
- Falkenrath Pit Fighter
- Flourishing Strike
- Forbidden Orchard
- Free from Flesh
- Homestead Courage
- Invasion of Dominaria
- Kytheon, Hero of Akros
- Mind Flayer
- Mistbreath Elder
- Myr Scrapling
- Night // Day
- Power Word Kill
- Recruitment Officer
- Render Inert
- Search the Premises
- Servant of the Stinger
- Sinister Starfish
- Slumbering Keepguard
- Soulfire Grand Master
- Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
- Thorn of Amethyst
- Thran Portal
- Titania's Command
- Tragic Fall
- Urza's Mine
- Urza's Power Plant
- Urza's Tower
- Veteran Survivor
- Westgate Regent