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 12 weeks, 5 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 116 | 171–199–2 | 46.2 | 15 | 1 | 1493 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 37 | 71–60–1 | 54.2 | 0 | 7 | |
| Mono Black Aggro | 3 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
| Heroic | 3 | 9–5–1 | 64.3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mono White Heroic | 2 | 5–4–1 | 55.6 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Red Deck Wins | 13 | 31–19 | 62.0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Tokens | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Selesnya Tokens | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Elves | 4 | 11–7 | 61.1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Zombies | 4 | 10–4 | 71.4 | |||
| Mono Red Swarm | 5 | 3–10 | 23.1 | |||
| 8 Whack | 5 | 3–10 | 23.1 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 3 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
| Affinity | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Tempered Steel | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
| Combo | 23 | 23–35 | 39.7 | 1 | ||
| Storm | 7 | 6–12 | 33.3 | |||
| Dimir Tendrils | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Izzet Storm | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Hypergenesis | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Seismic Swans | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Heartless Summoning Combo | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Izzet Ascension | 4 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
| Breakfast | 3 | 6–4 | 60.0 | 1 | ||
| Oops All Spells | 3 | 6–4 | 60.0 | 1 | ||
| Oops All Lands | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Dredge | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Control | 35 | 51–65–1 | 44.0 | 0 | 6 | |
| Mono Black Control | 2 | 5–5–1 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Demonic Rising | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mono Blue Control | 8 | 13–13 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Dimir Control | 5 | 6–9 | 40.0 | |||
| Azorius Control | 11 | 23–21 | 52.3 | 0 | 2 | |
| Turbo Fog | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Izzet Control | 3 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
| Mill | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Cloudpost Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Pox | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 4 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
| Aristocrats | 2 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Rakdos Aristocrats | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Burn | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Infect | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Simic Infect | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Curses | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mass Land Destruction | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Wildfire | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Borderpost Wildfire | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Midrange | 8 | 11–16 | 40.7 | 0 | 2 | |
| Temur Ascendancy | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mardu Midrange | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Vampires | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mono Black Vampires | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | 0 | 1 | |
| Big Red | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Mono Black Midrange | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Necro Midrange | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Mutate | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Orzhov Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Ramp | 6 | 8–12 | 40.0 | |||
| Cloudpost Ramp | 5 | 7–10 | 41.2 | |||
| Greenpost | 5 | 7–10 | 41.2 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Blood Seeker
- Chilling Grasp
- Cradle to Grave
- Dawn's Reflection
- Deathcap Cultivator
- Double Cleave
- Druid of the Anima
- Explosive Vegetation
- Foul Imp
- Foul-Tongue Shriek
- Guardian of Tazeem
- Ice Over
- Infinite Obliteration
- Lay of the Land
- Mob Rule
- Ojutai's Breath
- Pacification Array
- Rakshasa Gravecaller
- Spatial Contortion
- Spellweaver Volute
- Stitched Mangler
- Suffer the Past
- Surrak, the Hunt Caller
- Take into Custody
- Thornbow Archer
- Tunnel Vision
- Uncovered Clues
- Welcome to the Fold
- Whiplash Trap