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 3 weeks, 3 days.
Decks
Record
# Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
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297 | 489–563 | 46.5 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 1604 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 76 | 140–142 | 49.6 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Mono Black Aggro | 12 | 21–16 | 56.8 | 1 | ||
Heroic | 17 | 37–32 | 53.6 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 17 | 37–32 | 53.6 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Red Deck Wins | 3 | 4–11 | 26.7 | |||
Proliferate Red | 3 | 4–11 | 26.7 | |||
Mono Green Stompy | 3 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
White Weenie | 8 | 19–16 | 54.3 | |||
Odric Keywords | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Elves | 11 | 26–21 | 55.3 | |||
Werewolves | 2 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Selesnya Little Kid | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Selesnya Counters | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Rogues | 6 | 10–7 | 58.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Blue Aggro | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Devastating Dreams | 6 | 10–11 | 47.6 | |||
Voltron | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Equipment Aggro | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Boros Aggro | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Brushwaggs | 4 | 3–9 | 25.0 | |||
Combo | 58 | 82–106 | 43.6 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
Storm | 3 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Hazoret Storm | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Reanimator | 6 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |||
Recurring Nightmare | 3 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
Jund Nightmare | 3 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 3 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Grixis Reanimator | 2 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Warp World | 5 | 13–10 | 56.5 | 0 | 2 | |
Boros Glimpse | 4 | 11–8 | 57.9 | 0 | 2 | |
Umbral Mantle | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Metalwork Colossus | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Saffi Combo | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Breakfast | 10 | 26–12 | 68.4 | 1 | ||
Hermit Dredge | 10 | 26–12 | 68.4 | 1 | ||
Dredge | 4 | 9–7 | 56.3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Dice Factory | 4 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |||
Midnight Mass | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Control | 30 | 44–58 | 43.1 | |||
Esper Control | 5 | 15–6 | 71.4 | |||
Dimir Control | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Mill | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Grixis Control | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
Cruel Control | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
Stax | 5 | 11–11 | 50.0 | |||
Ponza | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Dynavolt Tower | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Cycling Control | 3 | 1–9 | 10.0 | |||
Astral Slide | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Orzhov Control | 5 | 7–9 | 43.8 | |||
Prison | 3 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |||
Enchantress | 3 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |||
Aggro-Combo | 9 | 13–19 | 40.6 | |||
Aristocrats | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Rakdos Aristocrats | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Burn | 5 | 7–10 | 41.2 | |||
Aggro-Control | 10 | 8–18 | 30.8 | 0 | 2 | |
Blue Madness | 6 | 5–8 | 38.5 | 0 | 2 | |
Simic Madness | 6 | 5–8 | 38.5 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono Blue Tempo | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Combo-Control | 13 | 15–31 | 32.6 | |||
Curses | 7 | 13–13 | 50.0 | |||
Burning Vengeance | 3 | 0–10 | 0.0 | |||
Cruel Combo-Control | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Solar Flare | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Mass Land Destruction | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Wildfire | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Midrange | 71 | 120–133 | 47.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Abzan Midrange | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Selesnya Midrange | 14 | 30–27 | 52.6 | |||
Selesnya Value Town | 14 | 30–27 | 52.6 | |||
Blink | 12 | 17–24 | 41.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Orzhov Blink | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Graveyard Value | 3 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
Allies | 11 | 26–14 | 65.0 | |||
Azorius Allies | 11 | 26–14 | 65.0 | |||
Vampires | 7 | 16–14 | 53.3 | |||
Mono Black Vampires | 6 | 12–13 | 48.0 | |||
Lifegain Midrange | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Martyr's Grace | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Sultai Midrange | 6 | 10–14 | 41.7 | |||
Sultai Energy | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Fight Rigging | 4 | 7–10 | 41.2 | |||
Neoform | 7 | 3–11 | 21.4 | |||
Artifact Midrange | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Ramp | 30 | 60–56 | 51.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Cloudpost Ramp | 13 | 37–24 | 60.7 | |||
Greenpost | 12 | 33–23 | 58.9 | |||
Summer Bloom Ramp | 16 | 23–31 | 42.6 | 0 | 1 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Aether Burst
- Arachnoid Adaptation
- Axgard Armory
- Bond of Insight
- Boon of Boseiju
- Cradle Clearcutter
- Desecrated Tomb
- Divine Arrow
- Dragon Tyrant
- Ephemerate
- Foundry Hornet
- Generous Gift
- Griffin Rider
- Heartfire
- Kami of Whispered Hopes
- Koll, the Forgemaster
- Meldweb Curator
- Mind Rake
- Rally the Ancestors
- Ravnica at War
- Return from Extinction
- Rune of Sustenance
- Savage Swipe
- Skyshroud Cutter
- Tahngarth's Rage
- Track Down
- Windcaller Aven