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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67 | 134–154 | 46.5 | 1 | 1495 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Control | 49 | 103–107 | 49.0 | 1 | ||
| Mardu Control | 5 | 9–9 | 50.0 | 1 | ||
| Cloudpost Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Selesnya Cloudpost Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Stax | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Pox | 3 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
| Seasons Past Control | 39 | 87–87 | 50.0 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
| Aristocrats | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Golgari Aristocrats | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Solar Flare | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Midrange | 15 | 25–42 | 37.3 | |||
| Abzan Midrange | 3 | 7–7 | 50.0 | |||
| Blink | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
| Acid Trip | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
| Graveyard Value | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Sultai Midrange | 3 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |||
| Heartless Summoning Stompy | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Fires of Invention | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
| Death Cloud | 3 | 7–7 | 50.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Cards Played First
- Assassin's Trophy
- Bartolomé del Presidio
- Grim Flayer
- Grist, Voracious Larva
- Hidden Nursery
- Inferno of the Star Mounts
- Mephitic Draught
- Misery's Shadow
- Neva, Stalked by Nightmares
- Oath of Nissa
- Oliphaunt
- Powerstone Fracture
- Rhonas the Indomitable
- Stargaze
- Supreme Phantom
- The Gitrog Monster
- The Necrobloom
- Twilight Mire
- Zoyowa Lava-Tongue