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 5 weeks, 5 days.
Decks
Record
# Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
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311 | 776–548 | 58.6 | 9 | 102 | 15 | 1688 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 68 | 150–119 | 55.8 | 2 | 21 | 1 |
Heroic | 9 | 18–14 | 56.3 | 1 | 5 | |
Mono White Heroic | 9 | 18–14 | 56.3 | 1 | 5 | |
Red Deck Wins | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Mono Red Devotion | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Goblins | 3 | 10–5 | 66.7 | |||
Tokens | 3 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |||
Selesnya Tokens | 3 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |||
Mono Green Stompy | 6 | 13–13 | 50.0 | 0 | 3 | |
White Weenie | 7 | 24–7 | 77.4 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Chroma White | 3 | 10–4 | 71.4 | |||
Elves | 7 | 11–14 | 44.0 | 0 | 3 | |
Selesnya Little Kid | 3 | 8–6 | 57.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Selesnya Counters | 2 | 6–3 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Gruul Aggro | 6 | 9–9 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Artifact Aggro | 21 | 47–39 | 54.7 | 0 | 4 | |
Affinity | 3 | 7–1 | 87.5 | |||
Boros Vehicles | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Tempered Steel | 3 | 4–6 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Voltron | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Equipment Aggro | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Knights | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Combo | 70 | 145–143 | 50.3 | 1 | 16 | 2 |
Storm | 3 | 0–9 | 0.0 | |||
Simic Storm | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Citadel Storm | 2 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
Reanimator | 32 | 77–59 | 56.6 | 1 | 10 | |
Recurring Nightmare | 21 | 50–39 | 56.2 | 1 | 7 | |
Dragon Nightmare | 7 | 20–9 | 69.0 | 1 | 5 | |
Four Color Powerful Magic | 13 | 30–27 | 52.6 | 0 | 2 | |
Worldgorger Dragon | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Traditional Reanimator | 9 | 26–15 | 63.4 | 0 | 2 | |
Oriss Genesis | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Maniac Combo | 4 | 11–6 | 64.7 | 0 | 2 | |
New Perspectives | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Cat Wave | 4 | 4–12 | 25.0 | |||
Acid Wave | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Myr Incubator | 6 | 16–10 | 61.5 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Metalwork Colossus | 3 | 7–6 | 53.8 | 0 | 2 | |
Anvil Colossus | 3 | 7–6 | 53.8 | 0 | 2 | |
Seismic Swans | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Eggs | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Blazing Shoal Combo | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Izzet Ascension | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Breakfast | 5 | 7–10 | 41.2 | |||
Cephalid Breakfast | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Druid Cephalid Breakfast | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Hermit Gond | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Neoform Hermit | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Protean Hulk Combo | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Control | 54 | 146–86 | 62.9 | 0 | 15 | 4 |
Mono Black Control | 12 | 32–18 | 64.0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Demonic Rising | 21 | 60–29 | 67.4 | 0 | 8 | 2 |
Paradox Haze Lock | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Dimir Control | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Azorius Control | 2 | 6–3 | 66.7 | |||
Adam's Ale | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
Turbo Fog | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Cloudpost Control | 3 | 9–5 | 64.3 | 1 | ||
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Grixis Control | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Cruel Control | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Stax | 2 | 5–3 | 62.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Birthday Stax | 2 | 5–3 | 62.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Chandra Nalaar | 7 | 21–12 | 63.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Temur Reclamation | 3 | 7–6 | 53.8 | 0 | 2 | |
Aggro-Combo | 8 | 22–13 | 62.9 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Aristocrats | 3 | 8–2 | 80.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Mono Black Aristocrats | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Orzhov Aristocrats | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
Infect | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Aggro-Control | 9 | 15–19 | 44.1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Simic Flash | 2 | 6–3 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Simic Vat | 2 | 6–3 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Izzet Tempo | 3 | 5–5 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Blue Madness | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Simic Madness | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
12 Pest | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Ninjas | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Izzet Spells | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Combo-Control | 30 | 82–52 | 61.2 | 1 | 15 | 2 |
Mindcrank | 27 | 74–45 | 62.2 | 1 | 15 | 1 |
Dragoncrank | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Mass Land Destruction | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | 1 | ||
Wildfire | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | 1 | ||
Midrange | 51 | 132–89 | 59.7 | 2 | 18 | 3 |
Temur Ascendancy | 13 | 43–20 | 68.3 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
The Rock | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Abzan Midrange | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Blink | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Graveyard Value | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Varolz Dreadnought | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Allies | 8 | 18–13 | 58.1 | 0 | 6 | |
Mardu Allies | 3 | 6–4 | 60.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Boros Allies | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono White Allies | 3 | 10–5 | 66.7 | 0 | 2 | |
Esper Allies | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Yisan-Prophet | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Legends Midrange | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Orzhov Legends | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 8 | 23–20 | 53.5 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Mono Black Midrange | 6 | 16–9 | 64.0 | 1 | 4 | |
Mono Black Devotion | 5 | 15–7 | 68.2 | 1 | 3 | |
Sultai Midrange | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Sultai Emerge | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Prophet Glare | 4 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |||
Hero of Precinct One | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Abzan Hero | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Simic Snow | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Ramp | 21 | 58–27 | 68.2 | 3 | 13 | 1 |
Rofellos Ramp | 9 | 34–10 | 77.3 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
Channel-Rofellos | 9 | 34–10 | 77.3 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
Cloudpost Ramp | 12 | 24–17 | 58.5 | 1 | 6 | |
Golgari Post | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Greenpost | 10 | 24–14 | 63.2 | 1 | 5 |