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, 5 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 74 | 139–123 | 53.1 | 5 | 19 | 1340 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 19 | 41–31 | 56.9 | 3 | 6 | |
| Mono Black Aggro | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Heroic | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Azorius Heroic | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Red Deck Wins | 7 | 20–9 | 69.0 | 2 | 5 | |
| Goblins | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
| Tokens | 2 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
| Selesnya Tokens | 2 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
| White Weenie | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Zombies | 1 | 6–1 | 85.7 | 1 | 1 | |
| Mono Red Swarm | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Aggro | 3 | 7–4 | 63.6 | |||
| Combo | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Storm | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Reanimator | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Dimir Reanimator | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Control | 26 | 53–48 | 52.5 | 1 | 10 | |
| Mono Black Control | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
| Azorius Control | 17 | 43–29 | 59.7 | 1 | 9 | |
| Mill | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Jeskai Control | 3 | 5–8 | 38.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Aggro-Combo | 9 | 13–15 | 46.4 | |||
| Aristocrats | 7 | 13–13 | 50.0 | |||
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 2 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |||
| Golgari Aristocrats | 4 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
| Abzan Aristocrats | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Displace Loop | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Peregrine Drake | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Familiars | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Midrange | 16 | 27–23 | 54.0 | 1 | 3 | |
| Temur Ascendancy | 3 | 9–4 | 69.2 | 1 | 2 | |
| -1/-1 Counters | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Selvala Morningstar | 6 | 11–9 | 55.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Lifegain Midrange | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Academy Elite
- Agatha of the Vile Cauldron
- Amnesia
- Animal Magnetism
- Archon of Redemption
- Armada Wurm
- Athreos, God of Passage
- Bounty of the Hunt
- Calming Verse
- Chandra, Novice Pyromancer
- Corpse Knight
- Court Hussar
- Detainment Spell
- Deus of Calamity
- Diabolic Edict
- Don't Make a Sound
- Emancipation Angel
- Embraal Bruiser
- Enduring Angel
- Eternal Dominion
- Eye of the Storm
- Faerie Tauntings
- Fire Shrine Keeper
- Gather Specimens
- Goblin Anarchomancer
- Groundbreaker
- Harvest Wurm
- Heat of Battle
- Hellkite Whelp
- Impassioned Orator
- Iname as One
- Innocuous Rat
- Jinxed Ring
- Karn's Temporal Sundering
- Krovikan Horror
- Kumena's Awakening
- Leonin Snarecaster
- Llawan, Cephalid Empress
- Magda, the Hoardmaster
- Mangara's Blessing
- Mass Hysteria
- Mind Slash
- Mist-Cloaked Herald
- Murder Investigation
- Pale Rider of Trostad
- Petravark
- Phyresis
- Pitiless Plunderer
- Psychic Miasma
- Reluctant Role Model
- Repeated Reverberation
- Resculpt
- Riftsweeper
- Ring of Gix
- Riverfall Mimic
- Sadistic Sacrament
- Searing Flesh
- Searing Rays
- Seer's Vision
- Sicken
- Skirk Shaman
- Soul Stair Expedition
- Storm Fleet Arsonist
- Sun's Bounty
- Surprise Deployment
- Thrull Retainer
- Tolarian Winds
- Trading Post
- Two-Headed Giant
- Venarian Glimmer
- Vexing Sphinx
- Wail of the Nim
- Wei Night Raiders
- Zombie Cannibal