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, 4 days.
Decks
Record
# Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
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447 | 700–891 | 44.0 | 13 | 1379 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 38 | 37–67 | 35.6 | 1 | ||
Goblins | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Mono Green Stompy | 4 | 12–6 | 66.7 | |||
Elves | 4 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Selesnya Little Kid | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Selesnya Counters | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Zombies | 3 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |||
Gruul Aggro | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Artifact Aggro | 4 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |||
Affinity | 4 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |||
Madness | 3 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Voltron | 12 | 11–16 | 40.7 | 1 | ||
Hateful Auras | 6 | 7–6 | 53.8 | 1 | ||
Knights | 2 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
AggroSlide | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Combo | 52 | 53–106 | 33.3 | 1 | ||
Reanimator | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Recurring Nightmare | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Dragon Nightmare | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Mono Black Reanimator | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Oriss Genesis | 3 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |||
Warp World | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Actual Warp World | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
New Perspectives | 5 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
Myr Incubator | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Metalwork Colossus | 3 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |||
Eggs | 6 | 5–11 | 31.3 | |||
Breakfast | 8 | 15–21 | 41.7 | 1 | ||
Cephalid Breakfast | 8 | 15–21 | 41.7 | 1 | ||
Druid Cephalid Breakfast | 8 | 15–21 | 41.7 | 1 | ||
Dredge | 20 | 25–43 | 36.8 | |||
Control | 49 | 83–107 | 43.7 | 2 | ||
Esper Control | 12 | 8–27 | 22.9 | |||
Demonic Rising | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Izzet Control | 3 | 8–6 | 57.1 | |||
Cycling Control | 6 | 4–17 | 19.0 | |||
Astral Slide | 5 | 3–17 | 15.0 | |||
Sultai Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Guildgate Control | 26 | 61–51 | 54.5 | 2 | ||
Aggro-Combo | 119 | 235–246 | 48.9 | 2 | ||
Aristocrats | 119 | 235–246 | 48.9 | 2 | ||
Mono Black Aristocrats | 9 | 12–19 | 38.7 | |||
Orzhov Aristocrats | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Food | 106 | 221–218 | 50.3 | 2 | ||
Rakdos Aristocrats | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Aggro-Control | 51 | 85–102 | 45.5 | 4 | ||
Blue Madness | 41 | 60–82 | 42.3 | 2 | ||
Simic Madness | 41 | 60–82 | 42.3 | 2 | ||
Mono Blue Tempo | 5 | 12–8 | 60.0 | 2 | ||
Izzet Spells | 5 | 13–12 | 52.0 | |||
Midrange | 110 | 176–212 | 45.4 | 3 | ||
The Rock | 4 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |||
Blink | 5 | 2–11 | 15.4 | |||
Wave Blink | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Abzan Wave | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Graveyard Value | 34 | 48–71 | 40.3 | |||
Séance | 15 | 26–27 | 49.1 | |||
Allies | 9 | 12–16 | 42.9 | |||
Orzhov Allies | 4 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |||
Boros Allies | 3 | 6–5 | 54.5 | |||
Mono White Allies | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Mono Black Midrange | 18 | 51–29 | 63.8 | 2 | ||
Mono Black Devotion | 18 | 51–29 | 63.8 | 2 | ||
Dimir Midrange | 7 | 8–17 | 32.0 | |||
Toughness Matters | 8 | 14–15 | 48.3 | 1 | ||
Orzhov Midrange | 3 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
Prophet Glare | 6 | 10–14 | 41.7 | |||
Neoform | 5 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |||
Temur Neoform | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
UBRG Neoform | 4 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
Clerics | 3 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Simic Snow | 4 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
Ramp | 6 | 19–11 | 63.3 | |||
Rofellos Ramp | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Channel-Rofellos | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Applejacks | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Unclassified | 22 | 12–40 | 23.1 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Avacynian Priest
- Broodhunter Wurm
- Cephalid Vandal
- Constricting Tendrils
- Dawn Evangel
- Dutiful Return
- Edgewalker
- Fangren Marauder
- Favored of Iroas
- Glowing Anemone
- Hampering Snare
- Headstrong Brute
- Indatha Crystal
- Ketria Crystal
- Kor Sky Climber
- Mirrodin Besieged
- Mother Bear
- Mutual Destruction
- Mycosynth Golem
- Oran-Rief Invoker
- Pious Wayfarer
- Quakefoot Cyclops
- Quickchange
- Rain of Revelation
- Reptilian Reflection
- Root Elemental
- Screeching Skaab
- Settle Beyond Reality
- Stonebound Mentor
- Titanic Bulvox
- Whipgrass Entangler
- Zagoth Crystal