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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164 | 318–250 | 56.0 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 1670 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 23 | 32–36 | 47.1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Heroic | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
Mono White Heroic | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
Mono Green Stompy | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
White Weenie | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Soldiers | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Elves | 8 | 11–13 | 45.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Artifact Aggro | 5 | 8–8 | 50.0 | 1 | ||
Affinity | 4 | 8–7 | 53.3 | 1 | ||
Mono Blue Architect | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Voltron | 1 | |||||
Hateful Auras | 1 | |||||
AggroSlide | 4 | 7–7 | 50.0 | |||
Combo | 60 | 98–92 | 51.6 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Storm | 16 | 26–25 | 51.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Dimir Tendrils | 4 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |||
Hazoret Storm | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Citadel Storm | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
High Tide | 9 | 22–11 | 66.7 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Reanimator | 10 | 19–15 | 55.9 | 1 | ||
Recurring Nightmare | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Dragon Nightmare | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Worldgorger Dragon | 2 | 5–1 | 83.3 | 1 | ||
Traditional Reanimator | 6 | 11–12 | 47.8 | |||
Mono Black Reanimator | 4 | 8–8 | 50.0 | |||
Grixis Reanimator | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 5 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
Warp World | 3 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Temur Glimpse | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Boros Glimpse | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Hypergenesis | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
Jeskai Ascendancy | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
"Twin" | 4 | 9–8 | 52.9 | |||
Naya "Twin" | 4 | 9–8 | 52.9 | |||
Eggs | 3 | 11–4 | 73.3 | 1 | ||
Ominous Good | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Breakfast | 4 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
Hermit Gond | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Oops All Spells | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Oops All Lands | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Dredge | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Insidious Roots Dredge | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Dice Factory | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
Storm Herald | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |||
Tibalt's Trickery | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Belcher | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Control | 6 | 6–11 | 35.3 | |||
Mono Blue Control | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Azorius Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Izzet Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Ponza | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Prison | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Enchantress | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Aggro-Combo | 11 | 31–15 | 67.4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Aristocrats | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
Rakdos Aristocrats | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Boros Bombardment | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Hermit Humans | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Trickbind Dreadnought | 5 | 18–5 | 78.3 | 1 | ||
Mono Blue Dreadnought | 5 | 18–5 | 78.3 | 1 | ||
Hushnought | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Combo Goblins | 2 | 6–3 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Goblin Persist | 2 | 6–3 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Aggro-Control | 4 | 11–3 | 78.6 | 1 | ||
Azorius Skies | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Izzet Spells | 2 | 6–1 | 85.7 | 1 | ||
Dimir Tempo | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Dimir Librarians | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Combo-Control | 12 | 27–20 | 57.4 | 1 | ||
Curses | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Mindcrank | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Hive Mind | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Plasma Swans | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Mass Land Destruction | 8 | 25–9 | 73.5 | 1 | ||
Wildfire | 4 | 12–4 | 75.0 | 1 | ||
Borderpost Wildfire | 4 | 12–4 | 75.0 | 1 | ||
Jokulhaups Control | 4 | 13–5 | 72.2 | |||
Jeskai Jokulhaups Control | 3 | 10–3 | 76.9 | |||
Temur Jokulhaups Control | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Midrange | 16 | 25–21 | 54.3 | |||
Grenzo | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Blink | 5 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Wave Blink | 3 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Azorius Wave | 3 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Graveyard Value | 3 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
Séance | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Varolz Dreadnought | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Mono Black Midrange | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Mono Black Devotion | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Heartless Summoning Stompy | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |||
Hero of Precinct One | 3 | 8–3 | 72.7 | |||
Five Color Hero | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Clerics | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Ramp | 31 | 86–50 | 63.2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Rofellos Ramp | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
Cloudpost Ramp | 27 | 80–41 | 66.1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Greenpost | 27 | 80–41 | 66.1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Field Ramp | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 |