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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171 | 206–326 | 38.7 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 1393 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 14 | 3–26 | 10.3 | |||
Red Deck Wins | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Green Stompy | 5 | 1–11 | 8.3 | |||
Zombies | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Gruul Aggro | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Naya Zoo | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
AggroSlide | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Humans | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Orzhov Humans | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Red Eldrazi | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Rats | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Combo | 30 | 30–60 | 33.3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Storm | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Dragonstorm | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Soulflayer | 7 | 6–13 | 31.6 | |||
Storm Herald | 14 | 6–28 | 17.6 | |||
Phoenix Altar | 7 | 16–14 | 53.3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Actual Twin | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Izzet Twin | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Control | 33 | 51–60 | 45.9 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Esper Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Azorius Control | 12 | 17–21 | 44.7 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Cawblade | 6 | 7–10 | 41.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Mardu Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Cloudpost Control | 14 | 23–24 | 48.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Azorius Cloudpost Control | 3 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Blackpost | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 7 | 14–14 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Dimir Cloudpost Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Dragon Control | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Mono White Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Orzhov Control | 3 | 8–6 | 57.1 | 1 | 1 | |
Aggro-Control | 20 | 24–38 | 38.7 | 0 | 2 | |
Blue Madness | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Wizards | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Ninjas | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Blue Tempo | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Dimir Tempo | 8 | 12–18 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Dimir Librarians | 6 | 11–15 | 42.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Azorius Tempo | 6 | 7–10 | 41.2 | |||
Midrange | 65 | 85–124 | 40.7 | 0 | 1 | |
The Rock | 4 | 0–10 | 0.0 | |||
Selesnya Midrange | 4 | 7–8 | 46.7 | |||
Jund | 5 | 7–9 | 43.8 | |||
Blink | 14 | 24–28 | 46.2 | |||
Orzhov Blink | 14 | 24–28 | 46.2 | |||
Graveyard Value | 3 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
Vampires | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Rakdos Vampires | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Legends Midrange | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Naya Midrange | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Mono Black Midrange | 12 | 22–24 | 47.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Black Devotion | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Dimir Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Angels | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Azorius Angels | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Lifegain Midrange | 4 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
Martyr's Grace | 4 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
Orzhov Midrange | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |||
Artifact Midrange | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Ramp | 9 | 9–18 | 33.3 | |||
Cloudpost Ramp | 5 | 7–10 | 41.2 | |||
Eldrazipost | 3 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |||
Golgari Post | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Gruul Post | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Field Ramp | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Alquist Proft, Master Sleuth
- Analyze the Pollen
- Bandit's Talent
- Beluna Grandsquall
- Curious Inquiry
- Deputy of Detention
- Doomskar Warrior
- Ebondeath, Dracolich
- Feed the Cycle
- Frontier Seeker
- Hell to Pay
- Heroic Intervention
- Huatli, Poet of Unity
- Huskburster Swarm
- Malamet Battle Glyph
- Novice Inspector
- Osseous Sticktwister
- Prairie Dog
- Shoreline Looter
- Snooping Newsie
- Unyielding Gatekeeper
- Urborg Scavengers