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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 126 | 156–210 | 42.6 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1428 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 13 | 14–22 | 38.9 | 0 | 2 | |
| Red Deck Wins | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Rogues | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Gruul Aggro | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Affinity | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Voltron | 2 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |||
| Hexproof | 2 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |||
| Knights | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Boros Aggro | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Shamans | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Rats | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo | 50 | 72–78 | 48.0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Storm | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Simic Storm | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Reanimator | 4 | 1–9 | 10.0 | |||
| Recurring Nightmare | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Mono Black Reanimator | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Warp World | 5 | 7–8 | 46.7 | |||
| Temur Glimpse | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Four Color Glimpse | 3 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |||
| Hypergenesis | 3 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |||
| Umbral Mantle | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
| Fake-Twin | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Jeskai Fake-Twin | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo Post | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Metalwork Colossus | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Blazing Shoal Combo | 8 | 20–12 | 62.5 | |||
| Soulflayer | 3 | 7–3 | 70.0 | 1 | ||
| Breakfast | 4 | 4–5 | 44.4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Oops All Spells | 4 | 4–5 | 44.4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Polymorph | 4 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
| Dice Factory | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Ad Nauseam | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Calibrated Blast | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Gyruda | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Belcher | 6 | 17–7 | 70.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Control | 13 | 4–23 | 14.8 | |||
| Esper Control | 4 | 2–9 | 18.2 | |||
| Mono Blue Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Dimir Control | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Azorius Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Turbo Fog | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Izzet Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Cloudpost Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Blackpost | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Runeflare | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Ponza | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 7 | 20–10 | 66.7 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Burn | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Hushnought | 5 | 16–6 | 72.7 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Aggro-Control | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
| Azorius Skies | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 10 | 8–16 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Displace Loop | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Familiars | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mass Land Destruction | 9 | 8–15 | 34.8 | 0 | 1 | |
| Wildfire | 6 | 8–10 | 44.4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Borderpost Wildfire | 5 | 7–8 | 46.7 | 0 | 1 | |
| Jokulhaups Control | 3 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Jeskai Jokulhaups Control | 3 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Midrange | 22 | 27–42 | 39.1 | |||
| Selesnya Midrange | 2 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
| Blink | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mardu Midrange | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Naya Midrange | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Big Red | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Mono Black Midrange | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
| Dimir Midrange | 3 | 6–5 | 54.5 | |||
| Lifegain Midrange | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Martyr's Grace | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Orzhov Midrange | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Hero of Precinct One | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
| Ramp | 9 | 6–16 | 27.3 | |||
| Cloudpost Ramp | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Greenpost | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Domain | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Summer Bloom Ramp | 3 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
| Defenders | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Akki War Paint
- Barkform Harvester
- Batterbone
- Blade of Shared Souls
- Blight Pile
- Botanical Brawler
- Breach the Multiverse
- Burn Down the House
- Careful Cultivation
- Chatterstorm
- Faebloom Trick
- Gaea's Will
- Grab the Prize
- Guardian of the Great Door
- Haunted Screen
- Horn of Gondor
- Icon of Ancestry
- Intimidation Campaign
- Mirran Safehouse
- Norn's Wellspring
- Oltec Matterweaver
- Otterball Antics
- Ovika, Enigma Goliath
- Pixie Illusionist
- Plundering Barbarian
- Relic of Legends
- Rhox Pummeler
- Scour the Desert
- Scrapwork Rager
- Sculpted Perfection
- Shrike Force
- Soul of Eternity
- Take the Fall
- The Fair Basilica
- The Hunter Maze
- Three Tree Mascot
- Viridian Longbow
- Windrider Wizard