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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 85–72 | 54.1 | 11 | 1899 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 8 | 19–12 | 61.3 | 0 | 2 | |
| Tokens | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Selesnya Tokens | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Zombies | 7 | 17–10 | 63.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Combo | 3 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Reanimator | 2 | 4–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Grozoth | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Umbral Mantle | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Control | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Dragon Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Cycling Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Astral Slide | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Aristocrats | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Aggro-Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Azorius Skies | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Midrange | 21 | 46–42 | 52.3 | 0 | 7 | |
| Temur Ascendancy | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Grenzo | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Abzan Midrange | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Blink | 3 | 9–7 | 56.3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Enchantments Matter | 3 | 7–6 | 53.8 | 0 | 1 | |
| -1/-1 Counters | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Lifegain Midrange | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Orzhov Midrange | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Ramp | 3 | 10–4 | 71.4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Rofellos Ramp | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Wild Pair | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Aerie Ouphes
- Ana Battlemage
- Arachnus Spinner
- Arachnus Web
- Ashenmoor Gouger
- Blazing Torch
- Bloodgift Demon
- Brilliant Halo
- Ceaseless Searblades
- Composite Golem
- Connive // Concoct
- Crown of Suspicion
- Daraja Griffin
- Dark Ritual
- Darklit Gargoyle
- Dauthi Horror
- Empyrial Plate
- Esper Battlemage
- Fiend of the Shadows
- Fleshbag Marauder
- Foul Renewal
- Fractured Loyalty
- Geist-Honored Monk
- Gladehart Cavalry
- Gloomdrifter
- Hewed Stone Retainers
- Hibernation's End
- Immobilizing Ink
- Inventive Iteration
- Isperia the Inscrutable
- Lake of the Dead
- Lashknife Barrier
- Latulla's Orders
- Mask of Memory
- Myojin of Life's Web
- Myr Battlesphere
- Neverending Torment
- Nightveil Specter
- Nikko-Onna
- Nim Deathmantle
- Ochran Assassin
- Paralyze
- Patchwork Gnomes
- Phyrexian Furnace
- Power Conduit
- Power of Fire
- Profane Command
- Prophetic Ravings
- Purify the Grave
- Pyromancer's Assault
- Rakdos Guildmage
- Relic Seeker
- Riptide Mangler
- Royal Assassin
- Shared Animosity
- Sibsig Muckdraggers
- Sisay's Ingenuity
- Sky-Blessed Samurai
- Soltari Guerrillas
- Specter's Shroud
- Spike Cannibal
- Squee's Embrace
- Sturmgeist
- Tallowisp
- Tangle Golem
- Temple Acolyte
- The Mirari Conjecture
- Thorn Mammoth
- Thoughts of Ruin
- Thraben Heretic
- Umbral Mantle
- Underworld Connections
- Urborg
- Vigean Hydropon
- Viridian Joiner
- Volrath's Shapeshifter
- Wilt
- Yisan, the Wanderer Bard