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 1 week, 2 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 113 | 216–215 | 50.1 | 1 | 3 | 1645 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 6 | 10–8 | 55.6 | |||
| Elves | 2 | 8–2 | 80.0 | |||
| Merfolk | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Affinity | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Salvage Titan | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Humans | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Selesnya Humans | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo | 71 | 153–133 | 53.5 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Storm | 9 | 5–17 | 22.7 | |||
| Sultai Tendrils | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Simic Storm | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Reclamation Storm | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| High Tide | 2 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
| Paradoxical Outcome Storm | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Reanimator | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Worldgorger Dragon | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Jeskai Ascendancy | 20 | 57–36 | 61.3 | 1 | ||
| Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 8 | 29–11 | 72.5 | 1 | ||
| Metalwork Colossus | 32 | 78–63 | 55.3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Upheaval Colossus | 4 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |||
| Eggs | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
| Dice Factory | 1 | |||||
| Control | 19 | 39–40 | 49.4 | 1 | ||
| Esper Control | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Dimir Control | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Turbo Fog | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Mill | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Cloudpost Control | 3 | 3–9 | 25.0 | |||
| Azorius Cloudpost Control | 3 | 3–9 | 25.0 | |||
| Cycling Control | 7 | 20–14 | 58.8 | 1 | ||
| Guildgate Control | 3 | 7–4 | 63.6 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Aristocrats | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Midrange | 6 | 2–16 | 11.1 | |||
| Graveyard Value | 3 | 0–10 | 0.0 | |||
| Artifact Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Ramp | 8 | 11–15 | 42.3 | |||
| Cloudpost Ramp | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |||
| Greenpost | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Simic Post | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Unclassified | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Aboshan, Cephalid Emperor
- Aggressive Mining
- Boros Locket
- Devious Cover-Up
- Filigree Sages
- Ire of Kaminari
- Izzet Locket
- Jadecraft Artisan
- Leonin Abunas
- Llanowar Scout
- Market Festival
- Memory Plunder
- Metrognome
- Mishra's Self-Replicator
- Mistvein Borderpost
- Nantuko Cultivator
- Override
- Paragon of Eternal Wilds
- Petals of Insight
- Plated Seastrider
- Reaper King
- Rootwater Mystic
- Shorecrasher Elemental
- Snakeform
- Telekinesis
- Tezzeret's Gatebreaker
- Vital Surge
- Wand of Denial
- Wirewood Elf