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 4 weeks, 1 day.
Decks
Record
# Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
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157 | 436–268 | 61.9 | 15 | 74 | 6 | 1899 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 20 | 53–36 | 59.6 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
Goblins | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
Tokens | 3 | 8–6 | 57.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Selesnya Tokens | 3 | 8–6 | 57.1 | 0 | 1 | |
White Weenie | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Elves | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Zombies | 7 | 17–10 | 63.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Gruul Aggro | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Artifact Aggro | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | 0 | 2 | |
Tempered Steel | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | 0 | 2 | |
Voltron | 1 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Shamans | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Combo | 42 | 132–65 | 67.0 | 8 | 22 | |
Reanimator | 13 | 41–17 | 70.7 | 3 | 8 | |
Recurring Nightmare | 1 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Dragon Nightmare | 1 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Grozoth | 7 | 20–10 | 66.7 | 1 | 4 | |
Traditional Reanimator | 5 | 17–5 | 77.3 | 2 | 3 | |
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 4 | 17–3 | 85.0 | 1 | 2 | |
Cat Wave | 3 | 10–5 | 66.7 | |||
Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Umbral Mantle | 4 | 13–6 | 68.4 | 1 | 1 | |
Combo Post | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Metalwork Colossus | 4 | 10–9 | 52.6 | |||
Seismic Swans | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Breakfast | 9 | 32–12 | 72.7 | 3 | 9 | |
Cephalid Breakfast | 9 | 32–12 | 72.7 | 3 | 9 | |
Druid Cephalid Breakfast | 2 | 9–3 | 75.0 | 1 | 2 | |
Grixis Breakfast | 2 | 5–3 | 62.5 | 0 | 2 | |
Stuffy Doll | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Control | 17 | 53–27 | 66.3 | 5 | 11 | |
Azorius Control | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Cawblade | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Cloudpost Control | 7 | 29–9 | 76.3 | 3 | 5 | |
Blackpost | 5 | 17–7 | 70.8 | 1 | 3 | |
Cloudy With Sunny Spells | 2 | 12–2 | 85.7 | 2 | 2 | |
Grixis Control | 1 | 5–1 | 83.3 | 1 | 1 | |
Stax | 1 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Dragon Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Dynavolt Tower | 5 | 15–8 | 65.2 | 1 | 4 | |
Cycling Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Astral Slide | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Aggro-Combo | 10 | 38–13 | 74.5 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
Aristocrats | 9 | 35–11 | 76.1 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
Orzhov Aristocrats | 7 | 26–10 | 72.2 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Golgari Aristocrats | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
Abzan Aristocrats | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Izzet Blitzkrieg | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Aggro-Control | 3 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
Azorius Skies | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Blue Madness | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Temur Madness | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Combo-Control | 9 | 24–15 | 61.5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
Curses | 5 | 14–8 | 63.6 | 1 | 5 | |
Battle of Wits | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Mass Land Destruction | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Jokulhaups Control | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Grixis Jokulhaups Control | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Resurgent Belief | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Midrange | 46 | 93–95 | 49.5 | 0 | 19 | 1 |
Temur Ascendancy | 3 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
Prophet Ascendancy | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
The Rock | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Grenzo | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Abzan Midrange | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
Blink | 6 | 18–14 | 56.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Wave Blink | 2 | 7–4 | 63.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Acid Trip | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Graveyard Value | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Varolz Dreadnought | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Enchantments Matter | 3 | 7–6 | 53.8 | 0 | 1 | |
-1/-1 Counters | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Yisan-Prophet | 3 | 10–4 | 71.4 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Legends Midrange | 3 | 7–6 | 53.8 | 0 | 3 | |
Boros Legends Midrange | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | 0 | 2 | |
Orzhov Legends | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Rakdos Midrange | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Angels | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Orzhov Angels | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Lifegain Midrange | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Orzhov Midrange | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Ordealbreak | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Enigmatic Incarnation | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Fires of Invention | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Ramp | 10 | 28–12 | 70.0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Rofellos Ramp | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Wild Pair | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Cloudpost Ramp | 3 | 5–4 | 55.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Golgari Post | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Domain | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Applejacks | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
Orcish Aids | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Aerie Ouphes
- Ana Battlemage
- Arachnus Spinner
- Arachnus Web
- Ashenmoor Gouger
- Blazing Torch
- Bloodgift Demon
- Brilliant Halo
- Ceaseless Searblades
- Composite Golem
- Connive // Concoct
- Crown of Suspicion
- Daraja Griffin
- Dark Ritual
- Darklit Gargoyle
- Dauthi Horror
- Empyrial Plate
- Esper Battlemage
- Fiend of the Shadows
- Fleshbag Marauder
- Foul Renewal
- Fractured Loyalty
- Geist-Honored Monk
- Gladehart Cavalry
- Gloomdrifter
- Hewed Stone Retainers
- Hibernation's End
- Immobilizing Ink
- Inventive Iteration
- Isperia the Inscrutable
- Lake of the Dead
- Lashknife Barrier
- Latulla's Orders
- Mask of Memory
- Myojin of Life's Web
- Myr Battlesphere
- Neverending Torment
- Nightveil Specter
- Nikko-Onna
- Nim Deathmantle
- Ochran Assassin
- Paralyze
- Patchwork Gnomes
- Phyrexian Furnace
- Power Conduit
- Power of Fire
- Profane Command
- Prophetic Ravings
- Purify the Grave
- Pyromancer's Assault
- Rakdos Guildmage
- Relic Seeker
- Riptide Mangler
- Royal Assassin
- Shared Animosity
- Sibsig Muckdraggers
- Sisay's Ingenuity
- Sky-Blessed Samurai
- Soltari Guerrillas
- Specter's Shroud
- Spike Cannibal
- Squee's Embrace
- Sturmgeist
- Tallowisp
- Tangle Golem
- Temple Acolyte
- The Mirari Conjecture
- Thorn Mammoth
- Thoughts of Ruin
- Thraben Heretic
- Umbral Mantle
- Underworld Connections
- Urborg
- Vigean Hydropon
- Viridian Joiner
- Volrath's Shapeshifter
- Wilt
- Yisan, the Wanderer Bard