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, 6 days.
Decks
Record
# Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
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289 | 338–373 | 47.5 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 1766 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 38 | 56–50 | 52.8 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Goblins | 4 | 8–5 | 61.5 | |||
Rogues | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Gruul Aggro | 7 | 15–8 | 65.2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Mono Red Swarm | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Artifact Aggro | 8 | 4–11 | 26.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Blue Architect | 3 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Voltron | 4 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
Equipment Aggro | 4 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
AggroSlide | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |||
Boros Aggro | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Legends Aggro | 3 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |||
Bard Class | 2 | 6–5 | 54.5 | |||
Combo | 124 | 125–168 | 42.7 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
Storm | 9 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |||
Sultai Tendrils | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Citadel Storm | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Song Storm | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 6 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
Warp World | 4 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Actual Warp World | 4 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Hypergenesis | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Metalwork Colossus | 27 | 26–34 | 43.3 | 1 | ||
Anvil Colossus | 16 | 23–18 | 56.1 | 1 | ||
Eggs | 3 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Heartless Summoning Combo | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Blazing Shoal Combo | 3 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Retraction Helix Combo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Breakfast | 13 | 21–16 | 56.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Unctus | 13 | 21–16 | 56.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Dredge | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Insidious Roots Dredge | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Storm Herald | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Ad Nauseam | 4 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Intruder Alarm | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Belcher | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Tameshi Bloom | 11 | 31–11 | 73.8 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Possibility Storm | 2 | 5–2 | 71.4 | |||
Actual Twin | 3 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Control | 39 | 55–42 | 56.7 | 0 | 3 | |
Esper Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Blue Control | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Dimir Control | 2 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Azorius Control | 29 | 47–32 | 59.5 | 0 | 3 | |
Cawblade | 4 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
Mill | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Cloudpost Control | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Azorius Cloudpost Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Runeflare | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Enchantments Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Aggro-Combo | 11 | 14–11 | 56.0 | |||
Aristocrats | 10 | 12–10 | 54.5 | |||
Orzhov Aristocrats | 3 | 6–2 | 75.0 | |||
Food | 5 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |||
Rakdos Aristocrats | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Burn | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Aggro-Control | 11 | 13–12 | 52.0 | |||
Wizards | 3 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Mono Blue Tempo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Blue Librarians | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Izzet Spells | 5 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
Dimir Tempo | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Azorius Tempo | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Combo-Control | 10 | 4–13 | 23.5 | |||
Hedron Alignment | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Zur's Weirding | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Thopter-Sword | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Azorius Thopter-Sword | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Dimir Thopter-Sword | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Midrange | 42 | 54–55 | 49.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
The Rock | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Grenzo | 3 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
Selesnya Midrange | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Blink | 5 | 9–6 | 60.0 | 1 | ||
Graveyard Value | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 3 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |||
Big Red | 3 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
Dimir Midrange | 2 | 5–2 | 71.4 | |||
Angels | 2 | 5–2 | 71.4 | |||
Orzhov Angels | 2 | 5–2 | 71.4 | |||
Heartless Summoning Stompy | 1 | 3–0 | 100.0 | |||
Ordealbreak | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Enigmatic Incarnation | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Clerics | 3 | 5–4 | 55.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Artifact Midrange | 14 | 8–19 | 29.6 | |||
Ramp | 13 | 12–22 | 35.3 | |||
Cloudpost Ramp | 11 | 8–19 | 29.6 | |||
Eldrazipost | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Greenpost | 9 | 7–17 | 29.2 | |||
Summer Bloom Ramp | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- A Tale for the Ages
- Arcbound Slasher
- Arcbound Whelp
- Argent Dais
- Blacksmith's Talent
- Break Out
- Cache Grab
- Cacophony Scamp
- Chthonian Nightmare
- Clifftop Lookout
- Conceited Witch
- Crime Novelist
- Dawn of a New Age
- Fateful Absence
- Galadriel of Lothlórien
- Gremlin Tamer
- Hoarding Broodlord
- Hushbringer
- Inquisitive Glimmer
- King of the Oathbreakers
- Krenko, Baron of Tin Street
- Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
- Lich-Knights' Conquest
- Liliana, Heretical Healer
- Living Lectern
- Lotus Blossom
- Malcator, Purity Overseer
- Matzalantli, the Great Door
- Meria, Scholar of Antiquity
- Molten Monstrosity
- Omo, Queen of Vesuva
- Pawpatch Formation
- Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival
- Priest of Forgotten Gods
- Protective Bubble
- Reenact the Crime
- Sedgemoor Witch
- Sevinne's Reclamation
- Speaker of the Heavens
- Splash Portal
- Tahngarth's Glare
- Tarrian's Journal
- The Everflowing Well
- The Goose Mother
- The Irencrag
- Thief of Existence
- Vengeful Bloodwitch
- Warleader's Call
- Warren Soultrader
- Wishclaw Talisman
- Withering Torment