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 12 weeks, 4 days.
Decks
Record
# Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
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212 | 631–319 | 66.4 | 1 | 2 | 35 | 2080 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 34 | 111–42 | 72.5 | 9 | ||
Mono Black Aggro | 8 | 24–12 | 66.7 | 1 | ||
Red Deck Wins | 10 | 27–16 | 62.8 | 2 | ||
Mono Green Stompy | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
White Weenie | 9 | 35–7 | 83.3 | 4 | ||
Zombies | 6 | 20–7 | 74.1 | 1 | ||
Combo | 30 | 80–45 | 64.0 | 4 | ||
Storm | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Hazoret Storm | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 3 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
New Perspectives | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Jeskai Ascendancy | 16 | 52–19 | 73.2 | 4 | ||
"Twin" | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Jeskai "Twin" | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Breakfast | 8 | 20–16 | 55.6 | |||
Cephalid Breakfast | 8 | 20–16 | 55.6 | |||
Grixis Breakfast | 6 | 17–11 | 60.7 | |||
Control | 75 | 214–122 | 63.7 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
Azorius Control | 22 | 67–39 | 63.2 | |||
Cloudpost Control | 10 | 31–15 | 67.4 | 3 | ||
Azorius Cloudpost Control | 10 | 31–15 | 67.4 | 3 | ||
Stax | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Jeskai Control | 33 | 96–44 | 68.6 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
Cycling Control | 8 | 18–21 | 46.2 | |||
Astral Slide | 8 | 18–21 | 46.2 | |||
Sultai Control | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Aggro-Combo | 9 | 26–15 | 63.4 | 1 | ||
Aristocrats | 9 | 26–15 | 63.4 | 1 | ||
Orzhov Aristocrats | 5 | 18–7 | 72.0 | 1 | ||
Abzan Aristocrats | 4 | 8–8 | 50.0 | |||
Aggro-Control | 6 | 18–8 | 69.2 | 1 | ||
Blue Madness | 5 | 18–6 | 75.0 | 1 | ||
Temur Madness | 5 | 18–6 | 75.0 | 1 | ||
Combo-Control | 2 | 8–2 | 80.0 | 1 | ||
Mindcrank | 2 | 8–2 | 80.0 | 1 | ||
Midrange | 56 | 174–85 | 67.2 | 12 | ||
Temur Ascendancy | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Grenzo | 3 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Abzan Midrange | 4 | 14–4 | 77.8 | 2 | ||
Blink | 8 | 26–10 | 72.2 | 3 | ||
Legends Midrange | 16 | 57–23 | 71.3 | 4 | ||
Boros Legends Midrange | 16 | 57–23 | 71.3 | 4 | ||
Sultai Midrange | 24 | 74–40 | 64.9 | 3 | ||
Sultai Emerge | 24 | 74–40 | 64.9 | 3 |