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 11 weeks, 5 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 186 | 359–224 | 61.6 | 1 | 14 | 1933 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 61 | 143–66 | 68.4 | 6 | ||
| Heroic | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
| Red Deck Wins | 2 | 8–1 | 88.9 | |||
| Tokens | 31 | 65–35 | 65.0 | 3 | ||
| Selesnya Tokens | 3 | 9–4 | 69.2 | |||
| Mono White Tokens | 28 | 56–31 | 64.4 | 3 | ||
| White Weenie | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 25 | 59–28 | 67.8 | 2 | ||
| Affinity | 24 | 59–27 | 68.6 | 2 | ||
| Combo | 7 | 16–9 | 64.0 | |||
| Reanimator | 7 | 16–9 | 64.0 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 7 | 16–9 | 64.0 | |||
| Rakdos Reanimator | 5 | 16–7 | 69.6 | |||
| Control | 94 | 166–117 | 58.7 | 7 | ||
| Esper Control | 12 | 21–14 | 60.0 | 1 | ||
| Demonic Rising | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Dimir Control | 17 | 35–23 | 60.3 | |||
| Azorius Control | 6 | 21–7 | 75.0 | 1 | ||
| Izzet Control | 7 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |||
| Cloudpost Control | 12 | 16–12 | 57.1 | 1 | ||
| Azorius Cloudpost Control | 9 | 14–7 | 66.7 | 1 | ||
| Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Cloudy With Sunny Spells | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Grixis Control | 3 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
| Jeskai Control | 12 | 26–12 | 68.4 | 2 | ||
| Mono White Control | 2 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Five Color Control | 3 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
| Bant Control | 4 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
| Orzhov Control | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
| Blue Madness | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
| Simic Madness | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
| Combo-Control | 17 | 31–23 | 57.4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mindcrank | 10 | 15–16 | 48.4 | |||
| Displace Loop | 5 | 11–4 | 73.3 | 1 | ||
| Peregrine Drake | 5 | 11–4 | 73.3 | 1 | ||
| Mass Land Destruction | 2 | 5–3 | 62.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Wildfire | 2 | 5–3 | 62.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Midrange | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Abzan Midrange | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Ramp | 2 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Reclamation at Wake | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 |