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 8 weeks, 3 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 128 | 112–212 | 34.6 | 1 | 1073 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 25 | 29–39 | 42.6 | |||
| Goblins | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| White Weenie | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Soldiers | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Minotaurs | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Rogues | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Zombies | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Gruul Aggro | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Merfolk | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Voltron | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Hexproof | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Equipment Aggro | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Knights | 6 | 12–9 | 57.1 | |||
| Shamans | 7 | 12–10 | 54.5 | |||
| Combo | 21 | 18–39 | 31.6 | |||
| Necrotic Ooze Combo | 3 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
| Warp World | 5 | 8–9 | 47.1 | |||
| Four Color Glimpse | 5 | 8–9 | 47.1 | |||
| Zubera Tribal | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Oops All Lands | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Dredge | 3 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |||
| Storm Herald | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| GreenTwin | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
| Intruder Alarm | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Restore Balance | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Control | 15 | 7–21 | 25.0 | |||
| Turbo Fog | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Chandra Nalaar | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Runeflare | 8 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |||
| Ponza | 3 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Aristocrats | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mardu Aristocrats | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Dimir Tempo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Liliana's Contract | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Midrange | 40 | 39–67 | 36.8 | |||
| The Rock | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Abzan Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Blink | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Enchantments Matter | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Treefolk | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mardu Midrange | 3 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
| Elementals | 3 | 8–4 | 66.7 | |||
| Mono Black Midrange | 4 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |||
| Mono Black Devotion | 4 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |||
| Dimir Midrange | 5 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |||
| Toughness Matters | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |||
| Jeskai Midrange | 4 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
| Ramp | 24 | 19–43 | 30.6 | 1 | ||
| Rofellos Ramp | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Wild Pair | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Summer Bloom Ramp | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Defenders | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Carth Superfriends | 11 | 6–22 | 21.4 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Bedrock Tortoise
- Bestial Bloodline
- Bilious Skulldweller
- Billiard Room
- Captive Audience
- Croaking Counterpart
- Dance of the Tumbleweeds
- Diamond Faerie
- Dual Casting
- Dungeon Crawler
- Embereth Veteran
- Enfeeblement
- Evolving Adaptive
- Furycalm Snarl
- Graceful Restoration
- Guardian of New Benalia
- Howling Moon
- In the Eye of Chaos
- Kaya, Intangible Slayer
- Llanowar Loamspeaker
- Map the Frontier
- Mesmeric Orb
- Molten Duplication
- Packsong Pup
- Professional Face-Breaker
- Redcap Gutter-Dweller
- Refute
- Riders of Rohan
- Scorching Shot
- Serpent of Yawning Depths
- Soul Partition
- Sun-Blessed Mount
- Surgical Skullbomb
- Théoden, King of Rohan
- Topiary Stomper
- Urza, Prince of Kroog
- Vermin Gorger