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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187 | 228–257 | 47.0 | 2 | 36 | 3 | 1621 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 20 | 28–29 | 49.1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Elves | 12 | 17–17 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Selesnya Little Kid | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Cats | 4 | 10–6 | 62.5 | 1 | ||
Selesnya Cats | 4 | 10–6 | 62.5 | 1 | ||
Humans | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Permanent Vacation | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Combo | 34 | 25–50 | 33.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Storm | 8 | 10–12 | 45.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Dimir Tendrils | 3 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
Citadel Storm | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
High Tide | 3 | 4–6 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Izzet Storm | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Reanimator | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Black Reanimator | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Heartless Summoning Combo | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Soulflayer | 12 | 10–23 | 30.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Breakfast | 1 | |||||
Oops All Spells | 1 | |||||
Oops All Lands | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Protean Hulk Combo | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Dice Factory | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Enduring Ideal | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Actual Twin | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Izzet Twin | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Control | 86 | 122–125 | 49.4 | 2 | 25 | 1 |
Esper Control | 5 | 6–11 | 35.3 | |||
Dimir Control | 5 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Azorius Control | 26 | 48–35 | 57.8 | 1 | 12 | |
Stax | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Jeskai Control | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Runeflare | 5 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |||
Bant Control | 1 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Prison | 41 | 61–60 | 50.4 | 1 | 11 | 1 |
Enchantress | 11 | 14–17 | 45.2 | 0 | 2 | |
Aggro-Combo | 8 | 10–5 | 66.7 | 1 | ||
Infect | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Blazing Shoal Infect | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Hushnought | 3 | 7–2 | 77.8 | 1 | ||
Liquimetal Fishing | 4 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Aggro-Control | 4 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |||
Simic Flash | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Ninjas | 2 | 5–1 | 83.3 | |||
Dimir Tempo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Combo-Control | 21 | 24–31 | 43.6 | 0 | 5 | |
Curses | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Solar Flare | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Plasma Swans | 9 | 17–16 | 51.5 | 0 | 4 | |
Mass Land Destruction | 7 | 5–9 | 35.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Wildfire | 1 | 3–0 | 100.0 | |||
Jokulhaups Control | 6 | 2–9 | 18.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Grixis Jokulhaups Control | 3 | 2–5 | 28.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Jeskai Jokulhaups Control | 3 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Resurgent Belief | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Midrange | 13 | 3–13 | 18.8 | |||
The Rock | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Blink | 5 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Wave Blink | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Azorius Wave | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Acid Trip | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Orzhov Blink | 1 | |||||
Dimir Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mutate | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Orzhov Midrange | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Coinflip Tribal | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Ramp | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Cloudpost Ramp | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 |