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, 2 days.
Decks
Record
# Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
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57 | 121–68 | 64.0 | 3 | 19 | 2 | 2249 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 5 | 10–7 | 58.8 | 0 | 1 | |
White Weenie | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mono White Humans | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Red Swarm | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
AggroSlide | 1 | 5–2 | 71.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Humans | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Boros Humans | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Legends Aggro | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Boros Legends Aggro | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Combo | 21 | 50–27 | 64.9 | 1 | 10 | |
Storm | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Dragonstorm | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 5 | 17–8 | 68.0 | 1 | 4 | |
Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Fake-Twin | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Eggs | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Heartless Summoning Combo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Intruder Alarm | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Belcher | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Midnight Mass | 1 | 5–2 | 71.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Phoenix Altar | 1 | 5–1 | 83.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Actual Twin | 5 | 11–7 | 61.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Izzet Twin | 3 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Boros Twin | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Control | 18 | 35–19 | 64.8 | 2 | 7 | |
Mono Blue Control | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Dimir Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Azorius Control | 4 | 11–4 | 73.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Cloudpost Control | 3 | 2–4 | 33.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Azorius Cloudpost Control | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono White Cloudpost Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Grixis Control | 5 | 14–6 | 70.0 | 1 | 3 | |
Cruel Control | 5 | 14–6 | 70.0 | 1 | 3 | |
Orzhov Control | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Prison | 2 | 6–2 | 75.0 | 1 | 1 | |
Enchantress | 2 | 6–2 | 75.0 | 1 | 1 | |
Aggro-Control | 7 | 15–7 | 68.2 | 2 | ||
Wizards | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Mono Blue Tempo | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Izzet Spells | 3 | 11–2 | 84.6 | 2 | ||
Azorius Tempo | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Midrange | 5 | 6–7 | 46.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Jeskai Midrange | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Heartless Summoning Stompy | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Death Cloud | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Ramp | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
- Cosmic Epiphany
- Cyclone
- Gavony Trapper
- Geth, Thane of Contracts
- Haunted Library
- Invulnerability
- Kheru Dreadmaw
- Laboratory Drudge
- Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
- Llanowar Envoy
- Meteor Swarm
- Mount Velus Manticore
- Mystic Skull
- Nightfire Giant
- Nova Pentacle
- Rimewind Taskmage
- Sharae of Numbing Depths
- Woodland Acolyte
Cards Played First
- Abstruse Appropriation
- Abuelo, Ancestral Echo
- Academy Loremaster
- Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
- Arabella, Abandoned Doll
- Banish into Fable
- Banishing Slash
- Behold the Unspeakable
- Besotted Knight
- Borne Upon a Wind
- Bramble Familiar
- Brokers Charm
- Burning Sun's Fury
- Callous Bloodmage
- Case of the Ransacked Lab
- Charming Prince
- Chupacabra Echo
- Clay-Fired Bricks
- Cloudsteel Kirin
- Coastal Bulwark
- Complete the Circuit
- Conduit of Worlds
- Converter Beast
- Cosmic Epiphany
- Curse of Silence
- Cyclone
- Debt to the Kami
- Destroy Evil
- Doomskar
- Dreadhound
- Echoing Decay
- Energy Refractor
- Extinction Event
- Extraplanar Lens
- Fallaji Archaeologist
- Fell
- Flooded Grove
- Floriferous Vinewall
- Flourishing Bloom-Kin
- Flow of Knowledge
- Galvanic Discharge
- Gavony Trapper
- Geth, Thane of Contracts
- Gifts Ungiven
- Glimpse of Nature
- Grabby Giant
- Guardian of Ghirapur
- Halo Scarab
- Haunted Library
- Helping Hand
- Hidden Courtyard
- Hidden Necropolis
- Honeymoon Hearse
- Hurkyl, Master Wizard
- Ill-Timed Explosion
- Invulnerability
- Kaya, Orzhov Usurper
- Kaya's Guile
- Kess, Dissident Mage
- Kheru Dreadmaw
- Kozilek, the Broken Reality
- Laboratory Drudge
- Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
- Leyline of Abundance
- Llanowar Envoy
- Lounge
- Ludevic, Necrogenius
- Make Your Move
- Mechanized Warfare
- Meteor Swarm
- Mizzix's Mastery
- Mount Velus Manticore
- Mu Yanling, Sky Dancer
- Mystic Skull
- Needlethorn Drake
- Nightfire Giant
- Nova Pentacle
- Over the Edge
- Papercraft Decoy
- Phosphorescent Feast
- Phyrexian Vindicator
- Power Artifact
- Profane Tutor
- Proft's Eidetic Memory
- Queen Kayla bin-Kroog
- Radiant Epicure
- Restless Vents
- Rimewind Taskmage
- Roaring Furnace // Steaming Sauna
- Sapphire Medallion
- Sauron, the Dark Lord
- Shadow of the Second Sun
- Sharae of Numbing Depths
- Shield-Wall Sentinel
- Snapdax, Apex of the Hunt
- Soul Search
- Spell Queller
- Spring-Loaded Sawblades
- Steamcore Scholar
- Stern Lesson
- Sunbird Standard
- Tenth District Hero
- The Dragon-Kami Reborn
- The Elder Dragon War
- The Witch's Vanity
- Thing in the Ice
- Tune the Narrative
- Unable to Scream
- Uncharted Haven
- Vengeful Devil
- Virtue of Knowledge
- Voracious Hydra
- Water Wings
- Weakstone's Subjugation
- Weatherlight Compleated
- Well of Ideas
- Witness Protection
- Woodland Acolyte