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, 2 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 266 | 503–377 | 57.2 | 2 | 45 | 8 | 1851 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 153 | 293–209 | 58.4 | 1 | 28 | 6 |
| Heroic | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
| Mono White Heroic | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
| Red Deck Wins | 14 | 23–20 | 53.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| Prisoner | 5 | 11–8 | 57.9 | 0 | 2 | |
| Goblins | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Tokens | 36 | 61–51 | 54.5 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| Selesnya Tokens | 26 | 50–34 | 59.5 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| Mono White Tokens | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Mono Green Stompy | 36 | 82–42 | 66.1 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| White Weenie | 12 | 22–14 | 61.1 | 0 | 6 | |
| Minotaurs | 7 | 14–11 | 56.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Zombies | 34 | 74–46 | 61.7 | 1 | 7 | 3 |
| Gruul Aggro | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 8 | 12–15 | 44.4 | 0 | 3 | |
| Boros Vehicles | 3 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
| Tempered Steel | 5 | 10–7 | 58.8 | 0 | 3 | |
| Combo | 6 | 12–8 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Reanimator | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| New Perspectives | 3 | 9–4 | 69.2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Jokulhaups Combo | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Restore Balance | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Control | 12 | 10–17 | 37.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mono Black Control | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Grixis Control | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
| Stagnant Control | 4 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
| Galleon Control | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Ponza | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Dynavolt Tower | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Blue Madness | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Simic Madness | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Midrange | 26 | 37–36 | 50.7 | 0 | 4 | |
| Graveyard Value | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Allies | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Mardu Allies | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Treefolk | 15 | 26–23 | 53.1 | 0 | 4 | |
| Prophet Glare | 3 | 7–4 | 63.6 | |||
| Ramp | 67 | 148–102 | 59.2 | 1 | 11 | 2 |
| Rofellos Ramp | 5 | 15–6 | 71.4 | |||
| Cloudpost Ramp | 45 | 119–70 | 63.0 | 1 | 11 | 2 |
| Greenpost | 35 | 97–54 | 64.2 | 1 | 11 | 2 |
| Gruul Post | 9 | 21–14 | 60.0 | |||
| Simic Post | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Aerial Modification
- Blind-Spot Giant
- Bound in Silence
- Cartographer's Survey
- Crush Underfoot
- Defiant Vanguard
- Elephant Ambush
- Fungal Plots
- Grave Bramble
- Greener Pastures
- Marshaling Cry
- Minotaur Skullcleaver
- Old-Growth Dryads
- Ramosian Revivalist
- Sages of the Anima
- Saproling Migration
- Spore Swarm
- Sporecrown Thallid
- Stinkdrinker Daredevil
- Sunder Shaman
- Sunrise Sovereign
- Surge Node
- Yavimaya Sapherd