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 |
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60 | 158–116 | 57.7 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1752 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 8 | 22–16 | 57.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Elves | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Artifact Aggro | 6 | 19–9 | 67.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Affinity | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Tempered Steel | 5 | 16–7 | 69.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Boros Aggro | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Combo | 14 | 41–26 | 61.2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 2 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |||
Jeskai Ascendancy | 6 | 21–8 | 72.4 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 6 | 21–8 | 72.4 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Ad Nauseam | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
Chain of Acid | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Belcher | 3 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
Control | 8 | 17–15 | 53.1 | 1 | ||
Dimir Control | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Azorius Control | 2 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Izzet Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Stax | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Pox | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Prison | 2 | 6–2 | 75.0 | 1 | ||
Aggro-Combo | 11 | 33–21 | 61.1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Aristocrats | 4 | 14–7 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Golgari Aristocrats | 3 | 11–5 | 68.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Abzan Aristocrats | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Burn | 7 | 19–14 | 57.6 | 1 | ||
Aggro-Control | 4 | 10–7 | 58.8 | |||
Izzet Tempo | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
Wizards | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Combo-Control | 5 | 11–13 | 45.8 | |||
Battle of Wits | 3 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
Resurgent Belief | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
Midrange | 8 | 13–15 | 46.4 | |||
Graveyard Value | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Enchantments Matter | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Fake-Rack | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
Orzhov Midrange | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
Artifact Midrange | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Ramp | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |||
Cloudpost Ramp | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |||
Greenpost | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Aeon Chronicler
- Arna Kennerüd, Skycaptain
- Atraxa's Skitterfang
- Battlefield Scrounger
- Cerebral Eruption
- Creepy Puppeteer
- Fiery Annihilation
- Firewing Phoenix
- Fissure
- Hydroform
- Knowledge Pool
- Lunar Insight
- Macabre Reconstruction
- Rankle and Torbran
- Rooftop Storm
- Stalking Stones
- Structural Assault
- Vectis Gloves
- Zndrsplt's Judgment