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 3 weeks, 3 days.
Decks
Record
# Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
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247 | 233–307 | 43.1 | 3 | 1491 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 30 | 23–36 | 39.0 | |||
Heroic | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |||
Mono White Heroic | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |||
Elves | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Selesnya Little Kid | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Red Swarm | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
8 Whack | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Artifact Aggro | 12 | 10–14 | 41.7 | |||
Affinity | 4 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Tempered Steel | 6 | 7–9 | 43.8 | |||
Mono Blue Architect | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Madness | 4 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Gruul Madness | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Rakdos Madness | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Naya Zoo | 4 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
AggroSlide | 5 | 7–4 | 63.6 | |||
Combo | 44 | 35–53 | 39.8 | |||
Storm | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
High Tide | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Reanimator | 4 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 4 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Mono Black Reanimator | 4 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Metalwork Colossus | 9 | 9–13 | 40.9 | |||
Anvil Colossus | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Upheaval Colossus | 8 | 7–11 | 38.9 | |||
Izzet Ascension | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Jokulhaups Combo | 3 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Breakfast | 4 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Neoform Hermit | 4 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Dredge | 7 | 9–8 | 52.9 | |||
Storm Herald | 7 | 7–7 | 50.0 | |||
Enduring Ideal | 4 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Ad Nauseam | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Control | 52 | 42–62 | 40.4 | 1 | ||
Esper Control | 8 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
Dimir Control | 5 | 7–6 | 53.8 | |||
Azorius Control | 15 | 13–17 | 43.3 | |||
Cawblade | 4 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |||
Boros Control | 5 | 10–5 | 66.7 | 1 | ||
Stax | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Dragon Control | 4 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
Izzet Dragons | 4 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
Ponza | 4 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Five Color Control | 5 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
Last Stand Control | 5 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
Pox | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Seasons Past Control | 4 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
Aggro-Combo | 19 | 25–24 | 51.0 | 1 | ||
Aristocrats | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Boros Bombardment | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Burn | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Infect | 7 | 7–9 | 43.8 | |||
Simic Infect | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Blazing Shoal Infect | 5 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |||
Trickbind Dreadnought | 3 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
Izzet Dreadnought | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Mono Blue Dreadnought | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
Hushnought | 3 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Combo Goblins | 4 | 8–4 | 66.7 | 1 | ||
Goblin Persist | 4 | 8–4 | 66.7 | 1 | ||
Aggro-Control | 8 | 9–10 | 47.4 | |||
Izzet Tempo | 6 | 9–8 | 52.9 | |||
Dimir Tempo | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Combo-Control | 7 | 13–11 | 54.2 | |||
Mass Land Destruction | 7 | 13–11 | 54.2 | |||
Jokulhaups Control | 7 | 13–11 | 54.2 | |||
Jeskai Jokulhaups Control | 4 | 6–5 | 54.5 | |||
Temur Jokulhaups Control | 3 | 7–6 | 53.8 | |||
Midrange | 75 | 76–91 | 45.5 | 1 | ||
Abzan Midrange | 4 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |||
Blink | 6 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
Mardu Midrange | 6 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 8 | 10–11 | 47.6 | |||
Mono Black Midrange | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Dimir Midrange | 20 | 22–22 | 50.0 | |||
Orzhov Midrange | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Fires of Invention | 7 | 5–11 | 31.3 | |||
Hero of Precinct One | 10 | 6–15 | 28.6 | |||
Esper Hero | 4 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Orzhov Hero | 4 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Simic Snow | 5 | 8–4 | 66.7 | |||
Artifact Midrange | 2 | 9–1 | 90.0 | 1 | ||
Ramp | 12 | 10–20 | 33.3 | |||
Cloudpost Ramp | 6 | 5–13 | 27.8 | |||
Greenpost | 6 | 5–13 | 27.8 | |||
Carth Superfriends | 6 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |||
Jund Carth | 6 | 5–7 | 41.7 |