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 11 weeks, 6 days.
Decks
Record
# Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
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656 | 832–849 | 49.5 | 3 | 66 | 7 | 1558 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 112 | 138–136 | 50.4 | 0 | 8 | 3 |
Heroic | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Boros Heroic | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Red Deck Wins | 7 | 9–10 | 47.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Goblins | 4 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
Tokens | 15 | 24–24 | 50.0 | 0 | 3 | |
Mono White Tokens | 14 | 22–22 | 50.0 | 0 | 3 | |
Mono Green Stompy | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
White Weenie | 16 | 21–14 | 60.0 | |||
Quest for the Holy Relic | 12 | 18–10 | 64.3 | |||
Elves | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Selesnya Little Kid | 5 | 6–5 | 54.5 | 1 | ||
Rogues | 5 | 3–10 | 23.1 | |||
Zombies | 7 | 4–8 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Merfolk | 22 | 44–21 | 67.7 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Mono Red Swarm | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
8 Whack | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Artifact Aggro | 3 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Affinity | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Hush-finity | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Salvage Titan | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Mono Blue Architect | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Voltron | 4 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |||
Hexproof | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Hateful Auras | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Slivers | 11 | 9–14 | 39.1 | |||
Humans | 6 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
Bant Humans | 4 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Combo | 89 | 111–117 | 48.7 | 1 | 8 | |
Storm | 13 | 12–23 | 34.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Dimir Tendrils | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Dragonstorm | 2 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Grixis Tendrils | 6 | 5–11 | 31.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Reanimator | 22 | 33–28 | 54.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Recurring Nightmare | 10 | 15–14 | 51.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Dragon Nightmare | 8 | 13–10 | 56.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Worldgorger Dragon | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 10 | 18–12 | 60.0 | |||
Rakdos Reanimator | 3 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Dimir Reanimator | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Mono Black Reanimator | 5 | 13–4 | 76.5 | |||
Seismic Swans | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Izzet Ascension | 8 | 9–13 | 40.9 | 0 | 2 | |
Jokulhaups Combo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Oops All Lands | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Dredge | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Enduring Ideal | 4 | 5–6 | 45.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Chain of Acid | 34 | 47–39 | 54.7 | 1 | 3 | |
Restore Balance | 4 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Control | 77 | 74–112 | 39.8 | 0 | 7 | |
Mono Black Control | 5 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Esper Control | 6 | 5–6 | 45.5 | 0 | 2 | |
Dimir Control | 11 | 9–15 | 37.5 | 0 | 2 | |
Azorius Control | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Izzet Control | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Mardu Control | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Mill | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Grixis Control | 25 | 29–43 | 40.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Cruel Control | 4 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
Jeskai Control | 4 | 11–8 | 57.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Runeflare | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Ponza | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Five Color Control | 10 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |||
Last Stand Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Guildgate Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Bant Control | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Pox | 3 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Enchantments Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Aggro-Combo | 53 | 48–54 | 47.1 | 1 | ||
Aristocrats | 9 | 5–12 | 29.4 | |||
Orzhov Aristocrats | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Abzan Aristocrats | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Mardu Aristocrats | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Rakdos Aristocrats | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Boros Bombardment | 3 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Burn | 7 | 11–3 | 78.6 | 1 | ||
Infect | 11 | 7–9 | 43.8 | |||
Simic Infect | 7 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
Blazing Shoal Infect | 3 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Golgari Infect | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Trickbind Dreadnought | 12 | 15–11 | 57.7 | |||
Mono Blue Dreadnought | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Izzet Blitzkrieg | 6 | 4–12 | 25.0 | |||
Hushnought | 6 | 6–5 | 54.5 | |||
Combo Goblins | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Goblin Persist | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Aggro-Control | 58 | 99–72 | 57.9 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
Izzet Tempo | 37 | 74–45 | 62.2 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
Azorius Skies | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Blue Madness | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Simic Madness | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Blue Tempo | 2 | 5–3 | 62.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Izzet Spells | 4 | 4–7 | 36.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Dimir Tempo | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Ensoul Aggro-Control | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Azorius Tempo | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Combo-Control | 102 | 165–129 | 56.1 | 2 | 28 | 1 |
Burning Vengeance | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Hive Mind | 3 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Solar Flare | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Plasma Swans | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mass Land Destruction | 94 | 164–119 | 58.0 | 2 | 28 | 1 |
Wildfire | 47 | 80–67 | 54.4 | 0 | 13 | |
Borderpost Wildfire | 45 | 78–65 | 54.5 | 0 | 13 | |
Jokulhaups Control | 47 | 84–52 | 61.8 | 2 | 15 | 1 |
Grixis Jokulhaups Control | 34 | 73–40 | 64.6 | 2 | 15 | |
Jeskai Jokulhaups Control | 3 | 6–3 | 66.7 | |||
Temur Jokulhaups Control | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
WUBR Jokulhaups Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mardu Jokulhaups Control | 3 | 5–2 | 71.4 | 1 | ||
Midrange | 145 | 166–206 | 44.6 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
The Rock | 4 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
Abzan Midrange | 4 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |||
Jund | 16 | 18–21 | 46.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Graveyard Value | 16 | 20–28 | 41.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Varolz Dreadnought | 16 | 20–28 | 41.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Fake-Rack | 9 | 9–11 | 45.0 | |||
Mardu Midrange | 8 | 11–12 | 47.8 | |||
Vampires | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Black Vampires | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 16 | 18–21 | 46.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Big Red | 9 | 4–12 | 25.0 | |||
Mono Black Midrange | 8 | 7–9 | 43.8 | 0 | 2 | |
Dimir Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Orzhov Midrange | 20 | 30–32 | 48.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Heartless Summoning Stompy | 7 | 6–11 | 35.3 | |||
Hero of Precinct One | 13 | 27–16 | 62.8 | 1 | ||
Mardu Hero | 5 | 7–8 | 46.7 | |||
Orzhov Hero | 4 | 13–6 | 68.4 | 1 | ||
Five Color Hero | 3 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Artifact Midrange | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Death Cloud | 3 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Ramp | 20 | 17–23 | 42.5 | |||
Rofellos Ramp | 8 | 10–13 | 43.5 | |||
Carth Superfriends | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Applejacks | 7 | 6–5 | 54.5 | |||
Field Ramp | 4 | 1–4 | 20.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Cards Played First
- Angrath, the Flame-Chained
- Archangel of Wrath
- Basilisk Collar
- Bloodbraid Marauder
- Champion of the Parish
- Curse of Shaken Faith
- Dorothea, Vengeful Victim
- First Day of Class
- Glacial Crevasses
- Illuminate History
- Immersturm Skullcairn
- Magmatic Channeler
- March of Wretched Sorrow
- Mathas, Fiend Seeker
- Nissa, Vastwood Seer
- Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
- Phyrexian Missionary
- Poet's Quill
- Predatory Sliver
- Sinew Sliver
- Sliver Legion
- Soul of Emancipation
- Thousand-Year Elixir
- Thundermaw Hellkite