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, 3 days.
Decks
Record
# Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
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273 | 532–370 | 59.0 | 1 | 5 | 25 | 1849 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 45 | 93–74 | 55.7 | 4 | ||
Red Deck Wins | 4 | 14–2 | 87.5 | 2 | ||
Mono Green Stompy | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
White Weenie | 12 | 21–20 | 51.2 | 1 | ||
Selesnya Little Kid | 2 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Selesnya Counters | 2 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Gruul Aggro | 3 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |||
Artifact Aggro | 7 | 10–12 | 45.5 | |||
Affinity | 5 | 9–7 | 56.3 | |||
Salvage Titan | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Madness | 9 | 25–15 | 62.5 | 1 | ||
Golgari Madness | 9 | 25–15 | 62.5 | 1 | ||
Knights | 2 | 8–2 | 80.0 | |||
AggroSlide | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Rakdos Aggro | 4 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
Combo | 7 | 11–14 | 44.0 | |||
Oriss Genesis | 5 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |||
Metalwork Colossus | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
Anvil Colossus | 2 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
Control | 84 | 172–95 | 64.4 | 1 | 4 | 11 |
Esper Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Azorius Control | 31 | 76–32 | 70.4 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
Cloudpost Control | 18 | 38–20 | 65.5 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Azorius Cloudpost Control | 18 | 38–20 | 65.5 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Grixis Control | 12 | 23–16 | 59.0 | 2 | ||
Cruel Control | 12 | 23–16 | 59.0 | 2 | ||
Stax | 13 | 17–18 | 48.6 | |||
Bant Control | 9 | 18–8 | 69.2 | 1 | ||
Aggro-Combo | 4 | 10–7 | 58.8 | |||
Aristocrats | 4 | 10–7 | 58.8 | |||
Golgari Aristocrats | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Rakdos Aristocrats | 3 | 10–5 | 66.7 | |||
Aggro-Control | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Dimir Tempo | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Midrange | 87 | 175–110 | 61.4 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
The Rock | 23 | 38–32 | 54.3 | |||
Selesnya Midrange | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Blink | 5 | 11–6 | 64.7 | |||
Wave Blink | 5 | 11–6 | 64.7 | |||
Orzhov Wave | 5 | 11–6 | 64.7 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 12 | 44–12 | 78.6 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Dimir Midrange | 11 | 19–14 | 57.6 | 1 | ||
Sultai Midrange | 23 | 29–32 | 47.5 | |||
Orzhov Midrange | 11 | 33–12 | 73.3 | 1 | ||
Ramp | 45 | 66–69 | 48.9 | 3 | ||
Cloudpost Ramp | 18 | 41–31 | 56.9 | 3 | ||
Greenpost | 14 | 33–21 | 61.1 | 3 |