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 5 weeks, 3 days.
Decks
Record
# Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
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221 | 672–363–1 | 64.9 | 10 | 55 | 15 | 2045 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 59 | 186–95 | 66.2 | 2 | 14 | 6 |
Heroic | 10 | 34–17 | 66.7 | 1 | 3 | |
Mono White Heroic | 4 | 13–6 | 68.4 | |||
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 6 | 21–11 | 65.6 | 1 | 3 | |
Red Deck Wins | 10 | 31–13 | 70.5 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Mono Red Devotion | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Goblins | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Tokens | 5 | 18–8 | 69.2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Selesnya Tokens | 4 | 15–6 | 71.4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Mono Green Stompy | 4 | 9–6 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
White Weenie | 3 | 9–5 | 64.3 | |||
Zombies | 15 | 55–21 | 72.4 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
Merfolk | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Mono Red Swarm | 4 | 11–7 | 61.1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Artifact Aggro | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Affinity | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Mono Blue Aggro | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Combo | 46 | 150–83 | 64.4 | 3 | 17 | 3 |
Storm | 3 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
Dragonstorm | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Citadel Storm | 2 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Reanimator | 23 | 71–40 | 64.0 | 0 | 8 | 2 |
Starlit Graves | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 21 | 64–37 | 63.4 | 0 | 8 | 2 |
Dimir Reanimator | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
Mono Black Reanimator | 3 | 9–6 | 60.0 | |||
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Maniac Combo | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
Hypergenesis | 8 | 34–13 | 72.3 | 3 | 5 | |
Hyperwave | 4 | 18–5 | 78.3 | 2 | 3 | |
New Perspectives | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Cat Wave | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Acid Wave | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Combo Post | 1 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Metalwork Colossus | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
Infinite Infinite Combos | 3 | 11–6 | 64.7 | 0 | 3 | |
Dredge | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
Control | 43 | 130–77–1 | 62.8 | 3 | 9 | 2 |
Esper Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Demonic Rising | 10 | 32–15 | 68.1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Azorius Control | 8 | 30–10 | 75.0 | 1 | 2 | |
Izzet Control | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Mardu Control | 3 | 7–7 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Cloudpost Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Cloudy With Sunny Spells | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Grixis Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Cruel Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Stax | 9 | 27–15–1 | 64.3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Necro Stax | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Pollute the Planet | 5 | 17–7–1 | 70.8 | 0 | 2 | |
Chandra Nalaar | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Stagnant Control | 3 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
Jeskai Control | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Dragon Control | 2 | 8–4 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
WUBR Dragons | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Grixis Dragons | 1 | 5–2 | 71.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Galleon Control | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Orzhov Control | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Aggro-Combo | 5 | 14–10 | 58.3 | |||
Aristocrats | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
Mono Black Aristocrats | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Mardu Aristocrats | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Turbo Myth | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Pummeler | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |||
Aggro-Control | 4 | 11–9 | 55.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Izzet Tempo | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Lich Aggro-Control | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Dimir Tempo | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Combo-Control | 13 | 28–19 | 59.6 | 0 | 3 | |
Oketra's Monument | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Azorius Oketra's Monument | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Cruel Combo-Control | 4 | 14–6 | 70.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Approach Necro | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Shared Fate | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Swarm Intelligence | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Mindcrank | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Lich's Mastery | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Mass Land Destruction | 1 | |||||
Wildfire | 1 | |||||
Midrange | 36 | 124–58 | 68.1 | 2 | 11 | 4 |
The Rock | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |||
Selesnya Midrange | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Selesnya Value Town | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Blink | 7 | 26–9 | 74.3 | 0 | 4 | |
Wave Blink | 7 | 26–9 | 74.3 | 0 | 4 | |
Orzhov Wave | 7 | 26–9 | 74.3 | 0 | 4 | |
Anti-Persecution | 3 | 11–4 | 73.3 | 1 | ||
Graveyard Value | 2 | 8–2 | 80.0 | 1 | ||
Allies | 3 | 7–5 | 58.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Orzhov Allies | 3 | 7–5 | 58.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Legends Midrange | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Orzhov Legends | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Big Red | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Mono Black Midrange | 11 | 45–16 | 73.8 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
Necro Midrange | 10 | 42–14 | 75.0 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
Mono Black Devotion | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Ramp | 6 | 16–12 | 57.1 | |||
Rofellos Ramp | 3 | 7–8 | 46.7 | |||
Devoid Cruelty | 3 | 9–4 | 69.2 | |||
Commander | 9 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Cards Played First
- Abbot of Keral Keep
- Aeolipile
- Agony Warp
- Aura Fracture
- Blood Funnel
- Cascading Cataracts
- Changeling Hero
- Changeling Outcast
- Dark Salvation
- Darting Merfolk
- Due Respect
- Final Judgment
- Firebrand Archer
- Grasping Dunes
- Grave Pact
- Gravestorm
- Inundate
- Jace's Defeat
- Jinxed Idol
- Kefnet's Last Word
- Knollspine Dragon
- Mire Triton
- Misstep
- Myth Realized
- Notion Thief
- Phantasmal Bear
- Profane Memento
- Quicksilver Gargantuan
- Rampaging Ferocidon
- Ruins of Oran-Rief
- Secrets of the Golden City
- Seer's Sundial
- Shared Fate
- Strength of Night
- Tasigur, the Golden Fang
- Tempest Caller
- Undead Augur
- Vance's Blasting Cannons
- Warping Wail