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, 3 days.
Decks
Record
# Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
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191 | 391–374 | 51.1 | 3 | 21 | 5 | 1593 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 27 | 66–50 | 56.9 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
Elves | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Rogues | 3 | 10–5 | 66.7 | |||
Zombies | 19 | 50–31 | 61.7 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Voltron | 3 | 6–8 | 42.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Hexproof | 3 | 6–8 | 42.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Combo | 70 | 160–128 | 55.6 | 2 | 11 | 1 |
Storm | 25 | 56–41 | 57.7 | 1 | 4 | |
Dimir Tendrils | 11 | 28–13 | 68.3 | 1 | 3 | |
Hazoret Storm | 11 | 24–21 | 53.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Grixis Tendrils | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Reanimator | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Izzet Ascension | 3 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |||
Soulflayer | 41 | 104–75 | 58.1 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
Control | 63 | 101–134 | 43.0 | 1 | 3 | |
Esper Control | 4 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |||
Azorius Control | 8 | 11–19 | 36.7 | |||
Mardu Control | 17 | 26–39 | 40.0 | |||
Boros Control | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Runeflare | 6 | 8–17 | 32.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Ponza | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono White Control | 12 | 19–17 | 52.8 | 1 | 1 | |
Dynavolt Tower | 4 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Guildgate Control | 8 | 22–15 | 59.5 | |||
Prison | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
Enchantress | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
Aggro-Control | 16 | 31–25 | 55.4 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Izzet Tempo | 10 | 18–16 | 52.9 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Mono Blue Tempo | 5 | 13–7 | 65.0 | |||
Mono Blue Faeries | 4 | 9–6 | 60.0 | |||
Izzet Spells | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Combo-Control | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Mass Land Destruction | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Wildfire | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Midrange | 12 | 17–27 | 38.6 | |||
Abzan Midrange | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Blink | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Wave Blink | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Orzhov Wave | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Mardu Midrange | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Legends Midrange | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 4 | 7–10 | 41.2 | |||
Big Red | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Ramp | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Defenders | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 |