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 2 weeks, 2 days.
Decks
Record
# Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
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161 | 224–254–1 | 46.9 | 1 | 30 | 2 | 1569 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 64 | 107–91–1 | 54.0 | 1 | 16 | |
Heroic | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Boros Heroic | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Red Deck Wins | 14 | 17–17 | 50.0 | 1 | 5 | |
Tokens | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Orzhov Tokens | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Mono Green Stompy | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
White Weenie | 4 | 4–7 | 36.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Quest for the Holy Relic | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Elves | 21 | 35–29–1 | 54.7 | 0 | 6 | |
Mono Red Swarm | 4 | 8–4 | 66.7 | |||
8 Whack | 4 | 8–4 | 66.7 | |||
Artifact Aggro | 9 | 24–14 | 63.2 | 0 | 3 | |
Affinity | 9 | 24–14 | 63.2 | 0 | 3 | |
Madness | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Rakdos Madness | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Voltron | 3 | 5–4 | 55.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Hexproof | 3 | 5–4 | 55.6 | 0 | 1 | |
AggroSlide | 4 | 7–5 | 58.3 | |||
Combo | 44 | 56–61 | 47.9 | 0 | 9 | 2 |
Storm | 16 | 12–24 | 33.3 | 0 | 4 | |
Dimir Tendrils | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Dragonstorm | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
High Tide | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Izzet Storm | 10 | 10–13 | 43.5 | 0 | 4 | |
Song Storm | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Reanimator | 12 | 26–16 | 61.9 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
Traditional Reanimator | 12 | 26–16 | 61.9 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
Mono Black Reanimator | 12 | 26–16 | 61.9 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
Warp World | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Four Color Glimpse | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Hypergenesis | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Jeskai Ascendancy | 3 | 2–3 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 3 | 2–3 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Soulflayer | 3 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |||
Breakfast | 5 | 12–11 | 52.2 | |||
Oops All Spells | 5 | 12–11 | 52.2 | |||
Ad Nauseam | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Ad Swanseam | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Control | 10 | 10–16 | 38.5 | |||
Esper Control | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Dimir Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Turbo Fog | 3 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |||
Cloudpost Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Grixis Control | 3 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
Cruel Control | 3 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
Aggro-Combo | 18 | 25–36 | 41.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Aristocrats | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Mono Black Aristocrats | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Golgari Aristocrats | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Infect | 3 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
Blazing Shoal Infect | 2 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
Trickbind Dreadnought | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Izzet Dreadnought | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Izzet Blitzkrieg | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Chancellor of the Forge Combo | 8 | 12–17 | 41.4 | |||
Hushnought | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Combo Goblins | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Goblin Persist | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Aggro-Control | 7 | 5–15 | 25.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Izzet Tempo | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Wizards | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Blue Tempo | 4 | 5–8 | 38.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Blue Librarians | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Dimir Tempo | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Combo-Control | 8 | 7–16 | 30.4 | 0 | 2 | |
Displace Loop | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Lich's Mastery | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Plasma Swans | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Mass Land Destruction | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Jokulhaups Control | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Temur Jokulhaups Control | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Midrange | 10 | 8–19 | 29.6 | |||
Blink | 5 | 6–9 | 40.0 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Lifegain Midrange | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Jeskai Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Hero of Precinct One | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Mardu Hero | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 |