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, 6 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87 | 182–75 | 70.8 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 2471 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 25 | 30–20 | 60.0 | 3 | ||
| Heroic | 10 | 13–8 | 61.9 | 1 | ||
| Azorius Heroic | 6 | 8–5 | 61.5 | |||
| Boros Heroic | 3 | 5–2 | 71.4 | 1 | ||
| Red Deck Wins | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| White Weenie | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Quest for the Holy Relic | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Zombies | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Gruul Aggro | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Red Swarm | 2 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Tempered Steel | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo | 33 | 94–25 | 79.0 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| Storm | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Warp World | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
| Boros Glimpse | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
| Jeskai Ascendancy | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |||
| Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |||
| Blazing Shoal Combo | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Gyruda | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Belcher | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
| Midnight Mass | 12 | 45–8 | 84.9 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Phoenix Altar | 12 | 29–9 | 76.3 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Control | 3 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |||
| Dimir Control | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Azorius Control | 2 | 6–2 | 75.0 | |||
| Cawblade | 2 | 6–2 | 75.0 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 4 | 7–6 | 53.8 | |||
| Aristocrats | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Boros Bombardment | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Infect | 3 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 4 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
| Wizards | 3 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Azorius Tempo | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 11 | 25–13 | 65.8 | 1 | ||
| Curses | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Cruel Combo-Control | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Hive Mind | 8 | 18–9 | 66.7 | 1 | ||
| Solar Flare | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Midrange | 7 | 14–5 | 73.7 | 1 | ||
| Vampires | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |||
| Clerics | 5 | 10–3 | 76.9 | 1 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
- Ashling, Flame Dancer
- Astral Steel
- Battery Bearer
- Behind the Mask
- Body Snatcher
- Brokers Ascendancy
- Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer
- Cascade Bluffs
- Case of the Gateway Express
- Case of the Gorgon's Kiss
- Case of the Uneaten Feast
- Charming Scoundrel
- Crackling Club
- Cruelclaw's Heist
- Cunning Coyote
- Deathbloom Ritualist
- Desperate Bloodseeker
- Drag the Canal
- Dreamtide Whale
- Elspeth Tirel
- Enterprising Scallywag
- Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald
- Feather of Flight
- Fight Rigging
- Frantic Scapegoat
- Fuss // Bother
- Gempalm Incinerator
- Gixian Puppeteer
- Haytham Kenway
- Hew the Entwood
- Inventor's Axe
- Jerren, Corrupted Bishop
- Kayla's Command
- Kor Spiritdancer
- Lamplight Phoenix
- Lazav, Wearer of Faces
- Levitating Statue
- Liliana, Untouched by Death
- Maestros Ascendancy
- Nurturing Pixie
- Nylea, God of the Hunt
- Ominous Roost
- Optimistic Scavenger
- Patchwork Crawler
- Path to Exile
- Pearl-Ear, Imperial Advisor
- Persist
- Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
- Pile On
- Quirion Beastcaller
- Regal Bunnicorn
- Requisition Raid
- Rosheen, Roaring Prophet
- Saradoc, Master of Buckland
- Seasoned Warrenguard
- Secret Passage
- Shardmage's Rescue
- Sheltered by Ghosts
- Shriveling Rot
- Sigarda, Host of Herons
- Sram, Senior Edificer
- Starving Revenant
- Strength of Isolation
- Sublime Archangel
- Taigam, Ojutai Master
- Tempted by the Oriq
- Terror Tide
- Thalia's Geistcaller
- Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
- Under the Skin
- Volatile Stormdrake
- War Squeak
- Widespread Thieving
- Will, Scion of Peace