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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1461 | 3856–2477 | 60.9 | 64 | 398 | 100 | 1934 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 268 | 728–423 | 63.2 | 14 | 75 | 27 |
Heroic | 12 | 31–16 | 66.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono White Heroic | 7 | 12–9 | 57.1 | |||
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 5 | 19–7 | 73.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Red Deck Wins | 39 | 106–61 | 63.5 | 1 | 11 | 3 |
Mono Red Devotion | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Goblins | 7 | 21–14 | 60.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Tokens | 6 | 17–7 | 70.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Selesnya Tokens | 6 | 17–7 | 70.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Mono Green Stompy | 3 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
White Weenie | 32 | 93–45 | 67.4 | 1 | 11 | 7 |
Soldiers | 8 | 17–13 | 56.7 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Elves | 9 | 29–18 | 61.7 | 1 | 6 | |
Selesnya Little Kid | 4 | 7–8 | 46.7 | |||
Rogues | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Zombies | 3 | 10–4 | 71.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Merfolk | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Red Swarm | 13 | 38–22 | 63.3 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
8 Whack | 13 | 38–22 | 63.3 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Artifact Aggro | 44 | 109–77 | 58.6 | 2 | 11 | 2 |
Affinity | 34 | 88–56 | 61.1 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
Hush-finity | 9 | 33–12 | 73.3 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Salvage Titan | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Tempered Steel | 8 | 20–15 | 57.1 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Devoid Aggro | 9 | 30–13 | 69.8 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
Mono Blue Aggro | 4 | 8–5 | 61.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Illusions | 2 | 6–2 | 75.0 | 1 | ||
Devastating Dreams | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Madness | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Gruul Madness | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Voltron | 21 | 58–35 | 62.4 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
Hexproof | 10 | 19–23 | 45.2 | 1 | 3 | |
Equipment Aggro | 11 | 39–12 | 76.5 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Slivers | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Naya Zoo | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
Knights | 22 | 54–35 | 60.7 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Cats | 4 | 16–4 | 80.0 | 2 | ||
Mono White Cats | 4 | 16–4 | 80.0 | 2 | ||
Boros Aggro | 2 | 3–1 | 75.0 | 1 | 1 | |
Humans | 24 | 72–34 | 67.9 | 4 | 14 | 2 |
Selesnya Humans | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Jeskai Humans | 11 | 36–14 | 72.0 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
Boros Humans | 7 | 22–12 | 64.7 | 2 | 7 | |
Combo | 400 | 981–704 | 58.2 | 15 | 91 | 22 |
Storm | 142 | 332–250 | 57.0 | 6 | 29 | 7 |
Dimir Tendrils | 82 | 199–131 | 60.3 | 4 | 20 | 6 |
Dragonstorm | 15 | 38–22 | 63.3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Hazoret Storm | 11 | 24–21 | 53.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Simic Storm | 10 | 14–31 | 31.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Reclamation Storm | 8 | 12–25 | 32.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Grixis Tendrils | 3 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |||
Izzet Storm | 18 | 49–30 | 62.0 | 2 | 5 | |
Reanimator | 42 | 115–65 | 63.9 | 2 | 8 | 2 |
Recurring Nightmare | 8 | 19–12 | 61.3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Dragon Nightmare | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Living Death | 6 | 20–6 | 76.9 | 1 | 1 | |
Traditional Reanimator | 28 | 76–47 | 61.8 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
Rakdos Reanimator | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
Dimir Reanimator | 9 | 34–13 | 72.3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Mono Black Reanimator | 5 | 9–9 | 50.0 | 1 | 2 | |
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 2 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
Mono Green Stormless Storm | 4 | 8–8 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Warp World | 7 | 17–10 | 63.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Temur Glimpse | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Four Color Glimpse | 6 | 14–8 | 63.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Hypergenesis | 88 | 250–145 | 63.3 | 4 | 29 | 4 |
Hyperwave | 17 | 59–23 | 72.0 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
New Perspectives | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Cat Wave | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Metalwork Colossus | 61 | 148–127 | 53.8 | 1 | 13 | 5 |
Upheaval Colossus | 38 | 91–73 | 55.5 | 0 | 9 | 3 |
Blazing Shoal Combo | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Izzet Ascension | 9 | 12–17 | 41.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Ominous Good | 4 | 11–9 | 55.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Breakfast | 6 | 17–11 | 60.7 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Cephalid Breakfast | 6 | 17–11 | 60.7 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Dredge | 11 | 30–11 | 73.2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Polymorph | 7 | 16–8 | 66.7 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Protean Hulk Combo | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Restore Balance | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Stuffy Doll | 3 | 10–5 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Control | 136 | 341–233 | 59.4 | 3 | 33 | 10 |
Mono Black Control | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
Dimir Control | 17 | 40–29 | 58.0 | 1 | 8 | 2 |
Azorius Control | 15 | 36–20 | 64.3 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Cawblade | 4 | 8–5 | 61.5 | |||
Izzet Control | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | 0 | 2 | |
Boros Control | 2 | 6–2 | 75.0 | |||
Cloudpost Control | 3 | 1–8 | 11.1 | |||
Izzet Cloudpost Control | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Mono White Cloudpost Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Grixis Control | 18 | 46–32 | 59.0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Cruel Control | 7 | 16–12 | 57.1 | 1 | ||
Stax | 6 | 16–9 | 64.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Necro Stax | 3 | 9–6 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Chandra Nalaar | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
Dragon Control | 17 | 53–24 | 68.8 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
Ponza | 27 | 80–43 | 65.0 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
Cycling Control | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Astral Slide | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Five Color Control | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Five Color Collected Conjuring | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Guildgate Control | 7 | 17–16 | 51.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Pox | 2 | 1–8 | 11.1 | |||
Enchantments Control | 2 | 1–7 | 12.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Orzhov Control | 3 | 5–5 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Aggro-Combo | 179 | 533–291 | 64.7 | 13 | 65 | 13 |
Aristocrats | 42 | 130–63 | 67.4 | 2 | 16 | 4 |
Mono Black Aristocrats | 18 | 62–28 | 68.9 | 2 | 12 | 1 |
Orzhov Aristocrats | 15 | 43–23 | 65.2 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Golgari Aristocrats | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Mardu Aristocrats | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Food | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Rakdos Aristocrats | 3 | 7–4 | 63.6 | |||
Boros Bombardment | 2 | 8–2 | 80.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Burn | 12 | 29–19 | 60.4 | 0 | 5 | |
Infect | 29 | 61–53 | 53.5 | 1 | 8 | |
Simic Infect | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Blazing Shoal Infect | 18 | 43–32 | 57.3 | 1 | 4 | |
Pummeler | 18 | 58–32 | 64.4 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Trickbind Dreadnought | 69 | 230–107 | 68.2 | 9 | 32 | 6 |
Izzet Dreadnought | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Blue Dreadnought | 64 | 227–95 | 70.5 | 9 | 30 | 6 |
Hushnought | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
Aggro-Control | 124 | 318–203 | 61.0 | 6 | 43 | 7 |
Izzet Tempo | 25 | 68–42 | 61.8 | 1 | 11 | 1 |
Azorius Skies | 2 | 7–4 | 63.6 | 1 | 1 | |
Lich Aggro-Control | 3 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Wizards | 56 | 148–92 | 61.7 | 2 | 18 | 4 |
Tetsukotog | 4 | 10–5 | 66.7 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Ninjas | 6 | 14–8 | 63.6 | 2 | 4 | |
Mono Blue Tempo | 7 | 21–7 | 75.0 | 1 | ||
Mono Blue Librarians | 2 | 6–1 | 85.7 | |||
Izzet Spells | 3 | 8–7 | 53.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Dimir Tempo | 4 | 7–8 | 46.7 | |||
Azorius Tempo | 7 | 18–12 | 60.0 | 0 | 3 | |
Combo-Control | 116 | 291–200 | 59.3 | 8 | 31 | 6 |
Oketra's Monument | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Mono White Oketra's Monument | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Burning Vengeance | 13 | 29–22 | 56.9 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Swarm Intelligence | 16 | 47–33 | 58.8 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
Pickles | 29 | 77–49 | 61.1 | 1 | 7 | 2 |
Yosei Vat | 35 | 103–59 | 63.6 | 4 | 13 | 1 |
Lich's Mastery | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Curious Niv-Mizzet | 1 | |||||
Solar Flare | 2 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
Mass Land Destruction | 8 | 17–9 | 65.4 | 0 | 3 | |
Wildfire | 2 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
Jokulhaups Control | 6 | 14–8 | 63.6 | 0 | 3 | |
Jeskai Jokulhaups Control | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Temur Jokulhaups Control | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Thopter-Sword | 5 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
Dimir Thopter-Sword | 5 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
Midrange | 129 | 305–230 | 57.0 | 2 | 31 | 10 |
Temur Ascendancy | 3 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |||
The Rock | 3 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |||
Grenzo | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Abzan Midrange | 2 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
Jund | 3 | 8–7 | 53.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Blink | 5 | 14–10 | 58.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Wave Blink | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Abzan Wave | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Anti-Persecution | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Graveyard Value | 8 | 20–14 | 58.8 | 0 | 2 | |
Varolz Dreadnought | 7 | 18–12 | 60.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Enchantments Matter | 4 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
Allies | 4 | 15–5 | 75.0 | 1 | ||
Mono White Allies | 4 | 15–5 | 75.0 | 1 | ||
Fake-Rack | 3 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Vampires | 3 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Mono Black Vampires | 3 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 4 | 10–8 | 55.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Big Red | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Black Midrange | 25 | 50–44 | 53.2 | 0 | 12 | 1 |
Necro Midrange | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Black Devotion | 14 | 30–25 | 54.5 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
Dimir Midrange | 10 | 31–18 | 63.3 | 2 | 4 | |
Angels | 6 | 19–8 | 70.4 | 2 | ||
Mono White Angels | 4 | 13–6 | 68.4 | 1 | ||
Orzhov Angels | 2 | 6–2 | 75.0 | 1 | ||
Lifegain Midrange | 5 | 16–9 | 64.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Martyr's Grace | 5 | 16–9 | 64.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Orzhov Midrange | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Hero of Precinct One | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Orzhov Hero | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Naya Hero | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Simic Snow | 12 | 38–13 | 74.5 | 5 | ||
Artifact Midrange | 3 | 5–8 | 38.5 | |||
Death Cloud | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Game Objects | 5 | 10–9 | 52.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Laelia Cascade | 6 | 17–10 | 63.0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Ramp | 109 | 270–193 | 58.3 | 3 | 29 | 5 |
Rofellos Ramp | 21 | 54–46 | 54.0 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
Wild Pair | 21 | 54–46 | 54.0 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
Cloudpost Ramp | 63 | 153–97 | 61.2 | 2 | 13 | 3 |
Eldrazipost | 4 | 7–7 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Greenpost | 53 | 135–78 | 63.4 | 2 | 12 | 3 |
Domain | 13 | 38–24 | 61.3 | 1 | 4 | |
Field Ramp | 9 | 25–18 | 58.1 | 0 | 6 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Addle
- Arbalest Engineers
- Architects of Will
- Armored Skaab
- Aron, Benalia's Ruin
- Aven Fogbringer
- Azusa, Lost but Seeking
- Barrin, Tolarian Archmage
- Baru, Fist of Krosa
- Bogardan Hellkite
- Bonfire of the Damned
- Bontu the Glorified
- Boomerang
- Branch of Vitu-Ghazi
- Brittle Effigy
- Brush with Death
- Bubbling Cauldron
- Butcher Ghoul
- Call to Mind
- Careful Consideration
- Carrion Beetles
- Cathar Commando
- Chimeric Mass
- Choked Estuary
- Coffin Purge
- Contagion Clasp
- Coralhelm Guide
- Corpse Cur
- Creeperhulk
- Cursed Scroll
- Danitha Capashen, Paragon
- Delusions of Mediocrity
- Demigod of Revenge
- Demon of Dark Schemes
- Desperate Ravings
- Devour in Shadow
- Diabolic Servitude
- Disdainful Stroke
- Djinn Illuminatus
- Dowsing Shaman
- Dragonstorm
- Dreamcaller Siren
- Drowner of Hope
- Eldrazi Obligator
- Elsewhere Flask
- Empyrean Eagle
- Endling
- Epitaph Golem
- Erratic Portal
- Faerie Conclave
- Faerie Guidemother
- False Defeat
- Fated Intervention
- Fervor
- Flayer Husk
- Foreboding Ruins
- Forge Anew
- Frost Trickster
- Fungal Reaches
- Furnace Dragon
- Galloping Lizrog
- Garza Zol, Plague Queen
- Gearseeker Serpent
- Gingerbrute
- Glint-Nest Crane
- Goblin Turncoat
- Graveshifter
- Harbinger of the Tides
- Harsh Judgment
- Haunted Cloak
- Heartflame Duelist
- Hidden Herbalists
- Hide in Plain Sight
- Ichor Rats
- Inescapable Blaze
- Invert // Invent
- Invigorated Rampage
- Ixidor's Will
- Jace's Sanctum
- Jaya's Immolating Inferno
- Jester's Cap
- Jorn, God of Winter
- Kamahl, Pit Fighter
- Karplusan Forest
- Liliana's Triumph
- Locket of Yesterdays
- Loyal Retainers
- Magnetic Mine
- Make a Stand
- Makeshift Mannequin
- Mark of Fury
- Melek, Izzet Paragon
- Melira, Sylvok Outcast
- Merrow Reejerey
- Metal Fatigue
- Metalspinner's Puzzleknot
- Military Discipline
- Miraculous Recovery
- Mishra's Helix
- Mizzium Mortars
- Mordenkainen's Polymorph
- Naban, Dean of Iteration
- Narnam Renegade
- Necropede
- Nezumi Informant
- Nightscape Familiar
- Nightshade Peddler
- Overload
- Paleoloth
- Peer Through Depths
- Phantasmal Image
- Phyrexian Plaguelord
- Phyrexian Vatmother
- Pirate's Prize
- Pollenbright Druid
- Price of Betrayal
- Prism Ring
- Prosperous Pirates
- Protector of the Crown
- Psychatog
- Purity
- Pyromancer's Gauntlet
- Pyromancer's Swath
- Quasiduplicate
- Radiant's Dragoons
- Rapid Decay
- Reality Ripple
- Reap the Past
- Reckless Reveler
- Renegade Doppelganger
- Repay in Kind
- Rite of Replication
- Rith's Grove
- Roaring Primadox
- Rootwater Depths
- Sandsteppe Mastodon
- Sanguine Sacrament
- Sawtooth Loon
- Scarecrone
- Scene of the Crime
- Scourge Wolf
- Searing Wind
- Sengir Autocrat
- Shadowmage Infiltrator
- Shattering Pulse
- Sins of the Past
- Skull of Orm
- Skyline Despot
- Slayer of the Wicked
- Soltari Foot Soldier
- Spawn of Thraxes
- Squelching Leeches
- Stitch Together
- Stone Rain
- Storm's Wrath
- Sulfurous Blast
- Surge of Zeal
- Swarm Intelligence
- Sylvok Lifestaff
- Talrand, Sky Summoner
- Tamiyo's Logbook
- Tenacious Dead
- Tendrils of Agony
- Tezzeret's Gambit
- Thieves' Tools
- Thran Foundry
- Tide Drifter
- Time of Need
- Tivadar's Crusade
- Tocasia's Dig Site
- Tome Scour
- Treva's Ruins
- Ugin's Insight
- Uktabi Drake
- Unstable Mutation
- Urza's Armor
- Utopia Vow
- Vessel of Volatility
- Vizier of Many Faces
- Voltaic Key
- Vraska, Swarm's Eminence
- Warren Weirding
- Wasteland Viper
- Weatherseed Treefolk
- Where Ancients Tread
- Whisper Agent
- Winged Words
- Wonder
- Worn Powerstone
- Xathrid Slyblade
- Yarus, Roar of the Old Gods
- Zodiac Dragon