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, 2 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98 | 162–199 | 44.9 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 1459 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 19 | 14–42 | 25.0 | 0 | 3 | |
| Heroic | 4 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |||
| Azorius Heroic | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Boros Heroic | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Tokens | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Orzhov Tokens | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| White Weenie | 4 | 3–9 | 25.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Quest for the Holy Relic | 4 | 3–9 | 25.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Gruul Aggro | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Gruul Landfall | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Affinity | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Hush-finity | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Architect | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Voltron | 3 | 4–8 | 33.3 | 0 | 2 | |
| Hexproof | 3 | 4–8 | 33.3 | 0 | 2 | |
| Boros Aggro | 4 | 2–10 | 16.7 | |||
| Combo | 29 | 51–54 | 48.6 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Storm | 6 | 14–16 | 46.7 | 0 | 1 | |
| Simic Storm | 4 | 9–11 | 45.0 | |||
| High Tide | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Jeskai Ascendancy | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
| Jeskai Jeskai Ascendancy | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
| Metalwork Colossus | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Eggs | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Heartless Summoning Combo | 5 | 11–8 | 57.9 | 0 | 1 | |
| Retraction Helix Combo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Soulflayer | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Dredge | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Storm Herald | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Tibalt's Trickery | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Calibrated Blast | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Control | 9 | 13–22 | 37.1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Cloudpost Control | 3 | 7–9 | 43.8 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Izzet Cloudpost Control | 2 | 5–6 | 45.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Stax | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
| Runeflare | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Ponza | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Pox | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 14 | 30–24 | 55.6 | 0 | 1 | |
| Burn | 4 | 11–7 | 61.1 | |||
| Infect | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
| Simic Infect | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Blazing Shoal Infect | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Trickbind Dreadnought | 8 | 14–13 | 51.9 | 0 | 1 | |
| Izzet Dreadnought | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Dreadnought | 2 | 6–2 | 75.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 12 | 26–25 | 51.0 | 1 | 6 | |
| Izzet Tempo | 4 | 15–8 | 65.2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Azorius Skies | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Blue Madness | 2 | 3–6 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Simic Madness | 2 | 3–6 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Lich Aggro-Control | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Dimir Tempo | 3 | 4–6 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Azorius Tempo | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Midrange | 14 | 17–29 | 37.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Graveyard Value | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Vampires | 5 | 9–9 | 50.0 | |||
| Rakdos Vampires | 5 | 9–9 | 50.0 | |||
| Rakdos Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Black Midrange | 3 | 6–7 | 46.2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Mono Black Devotion | 2 | 6–5 | 54.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| Party | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
| Hero of Precinct One | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Naya Hero | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Artifact Midrange | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Ramp | 1 | 4–3 | 57.1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Cloudpost Ramp | 1 | 4–3 | 57.1 | 0 | 1 |