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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 142 | 135–204 | 39.8 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 1281 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 56 | 64–71 | 47.4 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| Heroic | 6 | 0–9 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mono White Heroic | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Boros Heroic | 3 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Red Deck Wins | 15 | 26–16 | 61.9 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Mono Red Devotion | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Tokens | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Mono White Tokens | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Mono Green Stompy | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| White Weenie | 11 | 18–17 | 51.4 | 1 | 2 | |
| Soldiers | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
| Kithkin | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Selesnya Little Kid | 3 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Selesnya Counters | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Zombies | 4 | 7–4 | 63.6 | |||
| Gruul Aggro | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Merfolk | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Mono Red Swarm | 3 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Affinity | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Voltron | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
| Hexproof | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
| Knights | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| AggroSlide | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo | 14 | 16–19 | 45.7 | 0 | 1 | |
| Reanimator | 5 | 9–6 | 60.0 | |||
| Recurring Nightmare | 4 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
| Dragon Nightmare | 4 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Mono Black Reanimator | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Oriss Genesis | 4 | 6–5 | 54.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Hypergenesis | 3 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
| Breakfast | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Oops All Spells | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Control | 46 | 44–79 | 35.8 | 1 | 5 | |
| Demonic Rising | 32 | 37–55 | 40.2 | 1 | 5 | |
| Izzet Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Ponza | 10 | 7–18 | 28.0 | |||
| Cycling Control | 3 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Astral Slide | 3 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 11 | 4–16 | 20.0 | |||
| Izzet Tempo | 4 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
| Azorius Skies | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Tempo | 5 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Faeries | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Dimir Tempo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Midrange | 11 | 5–15 | 25.0 | |||
| Temur Ascendancy | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| The Rock | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Jund | 3 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Graveyard Value | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Varolz Dreadnought | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Mardu Midrange | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Elementals | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Dimir Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mythic Colossification | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Ramp | 4 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Rofellos Ramp | 4 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Wild Pair | 2 | 0–1 | 0.0 |