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 11 weeks, 5 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 217 | 486–432 | 52.9 | 10 | 81 | 2 | 1547 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 92 | 191–189 | 50.3 | 2 | 32 | |
| Heroic | 27 | 61–53 | 53.5 | 1 | 7 | |
| Mono White Heroic | 19 | 48–34 | 58.5 | 1 | 7 | |
| Azorius Heroic | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 7 | 13–17 | 43.3 | |||
| Red Deck Wins | 12 | 29–24 | 54.7 | 0 | 5 | |
| Mono Green Stompy | 5 | 9–11 | 45.0 | 0 | 3 | |
| White Weenie | 7 | 11–13 | 45.8 | |||
| Quest for the Holy Relic | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Soldiers | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Elves | 15 | 28–26 | 51.9 | 1 | 8 | |
| Rogues | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Zombies | 10 | 25–19 | 56.8 | 0 | 5 | |
| Mono Red Swarm | 2 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 5 | 8–11 | 42.1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Tempered Steel | 5 | 8–11 | 42.1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Knights | 2 | 7–5 | 58.3 | 0 | 2 | |
| AggroSlide | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Humans | 5 | 8–16 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Bant Humans | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Jeskai Humans | 4 | 6–13 | 31.6 | 0 | 1 | |
| Combo | 13 | 21–27 | 43.8 | 0 | 1 | |
| Storm | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Paradoxical Outcome Storm | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Channel Storm | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Reanimator | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Mono Black Reanimator | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Necrotic Ooze Combo | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Warp World | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Four Color Glimpse | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Maniac Combo | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Breakfast | 6 | 9–14 | 39.1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Oops All Spells | 6 | 9–14 | 39.1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Control | 3 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
| Demonic Rising | 2 | 5–2 | 71.4 | |||
| Sultai Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 16 | 28–36 | 43.8 | 0 | 4 | |
| Burn | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Infect | 3 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
| Simic Infect | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Blazing Shoal Infect | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Trickbind Dreadnought | 8 | 13–19 | 40.6 | 0 | 2 | |
| Mono Blue Dreadnought | 5 | 6–11 | 35.3 | 0 | 2 | |
| Hushnought | 3 | 8–8 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Combo Goblins | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Goblin Persist | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 8 | 9–15 | 37.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Ninjas | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Ensoul Aggro-Control | 6 | 6–12 | 33.3 | |||
| Combo-Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Curses | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Midrange | 47 | 133–85 | 61.0 | 5 | 24 | 1 |
| Blink | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Wave Blink | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Cloudpost Wave Blink | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Allies | 42 | 126–71 | 64.0 | 5 | 24 | 1 |
| Mardu Allies | 23 | 68–39 | 63.6 | 3 | 15 | |
| Boros Allies | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Mono White Allies | 15 | 51–23 | 68.9 | 2 | 9 | 1 |
| BRGW Allies | 3 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |||
| Mardu Midrange | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Hero of Precinct One | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Naya Hero | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Ramp | 37 | 81–74 | 52.3 | 3 | 19 | 1 |
| Rofellos Ramp | 37 | 81–74 | 52.3 | 3 | 19 | 1 |
| Channel-Rofellos | 35 | 79–71 | 52.7 | 3 | 19 | 1 |