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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137 | 266–225 | 54.2 | 2 | 7 | 1656 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 4 | 9–7 | 56.3 | 1 | ||
Heroic | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Artifact Aggro | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
Salvage Titan | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
Combo | 25 | 53–44 | 54.6 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Storm | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Dragonstorm | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Citadel Storm | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Reanimator | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |||
Recurring Nightmare | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |||
Dragon Nightmare | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Eggs | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Blazing Shoal Combo | 6 | 17–9 | 65.4 | 1 | ||
Jokulhaups Combo | 5 | 11–10 | 52.4 | |||
Soulflayer | 8 | 15–14 | 51.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Control | 41 | 75–79 | 48.7 | |||
Esper Control | 3 | 3–9 | 25.0 | |||
Demonic Rising | 4 | 11–8 | 57.9 | |||
Dimir Control | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Azorius Control | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Mill | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Cloudpost Control | 8 | 14–12 | 53.8 | |||
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 8 | 14–12 | 53.8 | |||
Grixis Control | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
Cruel Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Jeskai Control | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
Jeskai Approach | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Runeflare | 2 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Ponza | 7 | 17–13 | 56.7 | |||
Mono White Control | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Life is Ez | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Cycling Control | 3 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
Astral Slide | 3 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
Five Color Control | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Sultai Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Bant Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Aggro-Combo | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Infect | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Aggro-Control | 7 | 11–10 | 52.4 | |||
Simic Flash | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Izzet Tempo | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
Mono Blue Tempo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Dimir Tempo | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Combo-Control | 19 | 34–27 | 55.7 | 1 | ||
Battle of Wits | 12 | 25–15 | 62.5 | 1 | ||
Sunforger | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Hive Mind | 2 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |||
Mass Land Destruction | 3 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |||
Wildfire | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Thryx-Wildfire | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Jokulhaups Control | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Grixis Jokulhaups Control | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Midrange | 21 | 47–29 | 61.8 | 2 | ||
Blink | 2 | 6–3 | 66.7 | |||
Wave Blink | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Esper Wave | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Fake-Rack | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mardu Midrange | 3 | 10–5 | 66.7 | |||
Legends Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Dimir Midrange | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Lifegain Midrange | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Orzhov Midrange | 3 | 9–3 | 75.0 | 1 | ||
Fires of Invention | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Death Cloud | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Ramp | 18 | 36–27 | 57.1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Rofellos Ramp | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Cloudpost Ramp | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
Golgari Post | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
Temur Bombardment | 5 | 7–7 | 50.0 | 1 | ||
Sarkhan's Unsealing Ramp | 7 | 15–9 | 62.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Carth Superfriends | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 |