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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 140 | 231–293 | 44.1 | 3 | 1452 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 59 | 112–120 | 48.3 | 3 | ||
| Mono Black Aggro | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
| Red Deck Wins | 15 | 32–29 | 52.5 | 1 | ||
| Goblins | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Tokens | 3 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
| Mono White Tokens | 3 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
| Mono Green Stompy | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| White Weenie | 5 | 5–11 | 31.3 | |||
| Quest for the Holy Relic | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
| Elves | 4 | 6–9 | 40.0 | |||
| Zombies | 10 | 23–21 | 52.3 | |||
| Mono Red Swarm | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 3 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
| Affinity | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Tempered Steel | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Knights | 6 | 17–10 | 63.0 | 1 | ||
| AggroSlide | 5 | 9–8 | 52.9 | 1 | ||
| Cats | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
| Mono White Cats | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Combo | 7 | 4–15 | 21.1 | |||
| Reanimator | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Recurring Nightmare | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Dragon Nightmare | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Rakdos Reanimator | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Metalwork Colossus | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Izzet Ascension | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Jokulhaups Combo | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
| Polymorph | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Control | 16 | 25–33 | 43.1 | |||
| Dimir Control | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Grixis Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Ponza | 8 | 18–16 | 52.9 | |||
| Mono White Control | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Cycling Control | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Astral Slide | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Guildgate Control | 3 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 9 | 19–18 | 51.4 | |||
| Aristocrats | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Food | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Trickbind Dreadnought | 7 | 15–14 | 51.7 | |||
| Mono Blue Dreadnought | 7 | 15–14 | 51.7 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 19 | 23–45 | 33.8 | |||
| Simic Flash | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Izzet Tempo | 4 | 6–10 | 37.5 | |||
| Azorius Skies | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Ninjas | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Tempo | 6 | 11–16 | 40.7 | |||
| Izzet Spells | 4 | 0–8 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 3 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
| Hive Mind | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Liliana's Contract | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Mass Land Destruction | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Wildfire | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Thryx-Wildfire | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Midrange | 19 | 22–45 | 32.8 | |||
| Jund | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Blink | 2 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
| Wave Blink | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Orzhov Wave | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Graveyard Value | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
| Séance | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Varolz Dreadnought | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Treefolk | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
| Fake-Rack | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Rakdos Midrange | 2 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
| Big Red | 4 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |||
| Mono Black Midrange | 4 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |||
| Mono Black Devotion | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Davriel Braids | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Orzhov Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Ramp | 8 | 23–11 | 67.6 | |||
| Rofellos Ramp | 5 | 15–6 | 71.4 | |||
| Channel-Rofellos | 2 | 6–1 | 85.7 | |||
| Cloudpost Ramp | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Arcum's Not Astrolabe | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Sarkhan's Unsealing Ramp | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Eureka! | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 |