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, 1 day.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 139 | 130–197 | 39.8 | 3 | 1347 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 6 | 1–8 | 11.1 | |||
| Heroic | 3 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 3 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Red Deck Wins | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Salvage Titan | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo | 53 | 40–72 | 35.7 | 2 | ||
| Storm | 10 | 17–13 | 56.7 | 1 | ||
| High Tide | 8 | 13–9 | 59.1 | 1 | ||
| Izzet Storm | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Taking Turns | 2 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Jokulhaups Combo | 4 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
| Breakfast | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Polymorph | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Tibalt's Trickery | 6 | 3–9 | 25.0 | |||
| Restore Balance | 15 | 12–19 | 38.7 | 1 | ||
| Nadu Combo | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Control | 30 | 33–45 | 42.3 | |||
| Mono Blue Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Izzet Control | 11 | 8–15 | 34.8 | |||
| Stax | 11 | 23–19 | 54.8 | |||
| Ponza | 5 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 16 | 18–25 | 41.9 | |||
| Aristocrats | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Abzan Aristocrats | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Trickbind Dreadnought | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Dreadnought | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Hushnought | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Liquimetal Fishing | 11 | 14–19 | 42.4 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Izzet Spells | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 21 | 22–26 | 45.8 | 1 | ||
| Shared Fate | 11 | 12–13 | 48.0 | 1 | ||
| Zur's Weirding | 3 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Resurgent Belief | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Midrange | 8 | 10–14 | 41.7 | |||
| Abzan Midrange | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Big Red | 5 | 5–8 | 38.5 | |||
| Mono Black Midrange | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
| Ramp | 3 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
| Rofellos Ramp | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 |