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 8 weeks, 3 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 162 | 359–336–2 | 51.7 | 6 | 46 | 6 | 1562 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 18 | 35–36 | 49.3 | 1 | 8 | |
| Tokens | 11 | 24–22 | 52.2 | 1 | 5 | |
| Selesnya Tokens | 11 | 24–22 | 52.2 | 1 | 5 | |
| Selesnya Little Kid | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | 0 | 1 | |
| Zombies | 3 | 6–5 | 54.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| Artifact Aggro | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Architect | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| AggroSlide | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo | 5 | 6–12 | 33.3 | |||
| Reanimator | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Recurring Nightmare | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Dragon Nightmare | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Warp World | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Four Color Glimpse | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Quest for Ula's Temple | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Dice Factory | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Control | 50 | 92–104 | 46.9 | 0 | 10 | 1 |
| Turbo Fog | 4 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |||
| Mardu Control | 4 | 15–6 | 71.4 | 0 | 2 | |
| Boros Control | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
| Cloudpost Control | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
| Azorius Cloudpost Control | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
| Dragon Control | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| Sultai Control | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Bant Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Seasons Past Control | 20 | 38–49 | 43.7 | 0 | 5 | |
| Prison | 4 | 10–4 | 71.4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Enchantress | 4 | 10–4 | 71.4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Aggro-Combo | 4 | 11–8 | 57.9 | 1 | 2 | |
| Aristocrats | 3 | 9–5 | 64.3 | 1 | 2 | |
| Golgari Aristocrats | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Abzan Aristocrats | 1 | 5–2 | 71.4 | 1 | 1 | |
| Infect | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 5 | 17–9–1 | 65.4 | 1 | 2 | |
| Curses | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Mass Land Destruction | 4 | 14–7–1 | 66.7 | 1 | 2 | |
| Wildfire | 4 | 14–7–1 | 66.7 | 1 | 2 | |
| Borderpost Wildfire | 4 | 14–7–1 | 66.7 | 1 | 2 | |
| Midrange | 43 | 111–84–1 | 56.9 | 3 | 21 | 4 |
| Temur Ascendancy | 22 | 64–43–1 | 59.8 | 3 | 15 | 1 |
| Abzan Midrange | 9 | 21–15 | 58.3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Selesnya Midrange | 3 | 3–9 | 25.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Hellion Whip | 5 | 13–10 | 56.5 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Orzhov Midrange | 1 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
| Ramp | 37 | 78–83 | 48.4 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Rofellos Ramp | 3 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
| Cloudpost Ramp | 34 | 77–78 | 49.7 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Greenpost | 24 | 63–51 | 55.3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Gruul Post | 4 | 6–13 | 31.6 | |||
| Simic Post | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Cards Played First
- Boompile
- Buried in the Garden
- Call to the Grave
- Ceta Sanctuary
- Clip Wings
- Dimir Signet
- Displacement Wave
- Form of the Dragon
- Frost Walker
- Graf Harvest
- Grozoth
- Izzet Signet
- Kaya the Inexorable
- Lodestone Golem
- Mouth // Feed
- Orzhov Basilica
- Ranger's Path
- Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
- Sacred Ground
- Sarcomancy
- Seal of Primordium
- Spreading Algae
- Thopter Spy Network
- Volcano Hellion
- Yasova Dragonclaw