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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125 | 213–199 | 51.7 | 2 | 22 | 6 | 1607 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 31 | 62–49 | 55.9 | 1 | 7 | |
Heroic | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Mono White Heroic | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Red Deck Wins | 13 | 32–18 | 64.0 | 1 | 7 | |
Tokens | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Mono White Tokens | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
White Weenie | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Soldiers | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Elves | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |||
Merfolk | 5 | 8–8 | 50.0 | |||
Mono Red Swarm | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Voltron | 3 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |||
Hateful Auras | 3 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |||
AggroSlide | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Combo | 37 | 65–70 | 48.1 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
Storm | 6 | 8–15 | 34.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Dimir Tendrils | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Simic Storm | 3 | 4–9 | 30.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Reclamation Storm | 3 | 4–9 | 30.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Reanimator | 7 | 9–15 | 37.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Traditional Reanimator | 7 | 9–15 | 37.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Black Reanimator | 7 | 9–15 | 37.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | 3–3 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | 3–3 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Metalwork Colossus | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Anvil Colossus | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Eggs | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Lookout-Buccaneer Combo | 4 | 13–5 | 72.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Izzet Ascension | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Ominous Good | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
Soulflayer | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Breakfast | 8 | 19–11 | 63.3 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Cephalid Breakfast | 6 | 13–10 | 56.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Druid Cephalid Breakfast | 6 | 13–10 | 56.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Oops All Spells | 2 | 6–1 | 85.7 | 1 | ||
Enduring Ideal | 2 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |||
Restore Balance | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Control | 10 | 9–14 | 39.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Dimir Control | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Turbo Fog | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Cloudpost Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Blackpost | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Mono White Control | 1 | |||||
Five Color Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Five Color Collected Conjuring | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Guildgate Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Temur Reclamation | 3 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Aggro-Combo | 8 | 13–11 | 54.2 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Infect | 2 | 6–1 | 85.7 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Simic Infect | 2 | 6–1 | 85.7 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Trickbind Dreadnought | 4 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Mono Blue Dreadnought | 4 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Izzet Blitzkrieg | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Hushnought | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Aggro-Control | 10 | 19–16 | 54.3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Izzet Tempo | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Wizards | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Mono Blue Tempo | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Izzet Spells | 7 | 16–12 | 57.1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Combo-Control | 4 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Mindcrank | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Solar Flare | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mass Land Destruction | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Jokulhaups Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Jund Jokulhaups Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Resurgent Belief | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Midrange | 12 | 19–18 | 51.4 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Blink | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Allies | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Mono Black Midrange | 4 | 9–8 | 52.9 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono Black Devotion | 3 | 8–7 | 53.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Hero of Precinct One | 3 | 8–2 | 80.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Orzhov Hero | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Naya Hero | 2 | 7–2 | 77.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Simic Snow | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Artifact Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Ramp | 13 | 25–16 | 61.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Rofellos Ramp | 6 | 15–8 | 65.2 | 1 | 1 | |
Channel-Rofellos | 6 | 15–8 | 65.2 | 1 | 1 | |
Cloudpost Ramp | 4 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Arcum's Not Astrolabe | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Greenpost | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Gruul Post | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Reclamation at Wake | 3 | 8–4 | 66.7 | 1 |