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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 67–42 | 61.5 | 3 | 17 | 1 | 1899 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Voltron | 1 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
| Combo | 5 | 15–8 | 65.2 | 2 | 3 | |
| Reanimator | 4 | 15–5 | 75.0 | 2 | 3 | |
| Traditional Reanimator | 4 | 15–5 | 75.0 | 2 | 3 | |
| Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Control | 5 | 15–8 | 65.2 | 1 | 4 | |
| Dynavolt Tower | 5 | 15–8 | 65.2 | 1 | 4 | |
| Aggro-Combo | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Aristocrats | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Abzan Aristocrats | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Battle of Wits | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Midrange | 9 | 19–16 | 54.3 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| Temur Ascendancy | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Prophet Ascendancy | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Grenzo | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Yisan-Prophet | 3 | 10–4 | 71.4 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Legends Midrange | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Boros Legends Midrange | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Ramp | 2 | 6–2 | 75.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Domain | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | 0 | 1 |
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