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 2 days, 21 hours.
Congratulations to vagstor, winner of The Penny Dreadful 500 (Season 35)
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 333 | 514–393 | 56.7 | 14 | 205 | 1 | 1723 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 235 | 278–237 | 54.0 | 10 | 148 | |
| Mono Black Aggro | 28 | 26–30 | 46.4 | 0 | 18 | |
| Heroic | 31 | 28–29 | 49.1 | 1 | 19 | |
| Mono White Heroic | 28 | 28–25 | 52.8 | 1 | 16 | |
| Boros Heroic | 3 | 0–4 | 0.0 | 0 | 3 | |
| Red Deck Wins | 51 | 76–59 | 56.3 | 4 | 23 | |
| Mono Red Devotion | 3 | 7–5 | 58.3 | 1 | 1 | |
| Proliferate Red | 4 | 11–6 | 64.7 | 1 | 4 | |
| White Weenie | 7 | 1–8 | 11.1 | 0 | 4 | |
| Rogues | 3 | 4–8 | 33.3 | 0 | 2 | |
| Zombies | 10 | 21–8 | 72.4 | 1 | 6 | |
| Merfolk | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Mono Red Swarm | 14 | 18–10 | 64.3 | 1 | 9 | |
| Artifact Aggro | 32 | 26–24 | 52.0 | 1 | 21 | |
| Affinity | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Tempered Steel | 31 | 26–23 | 53.1 | 1 | 20 | |
| Devastating Dreams | 5 | 4–5 | 44.4 | 0 | 3 | |
| Voltron | 13 | 16–19 | 45.7 | 1 | 9 | |
| Equipment Aggro | 13 | 16–19 | 45.7 | 1 | 9 | |
| AggroSlide | 39 | 56–34 | 62.2 | 1 | 34 | |
| Combo | 9 | 9–20 | 31.0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Storm | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Reanimator | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Mono Black Reanimator | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Hypergenesis | 1 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
| Gyruda | 3 | 3–4 | 42.9 | 0 | 2 | |
| Aggro-Combo | 39 | 79–71 | 52.7 | 3 | 23 | 1 |
| Aristocrats | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Burn | 25 | 59–54 | 52.2 | 1 | 17 | |
| Pummeler | 6 | 6–10 | 37.5 | 1 | ||
| Trickbind Dreadnought | 7 | 14–5 | 73.7 | 2 | 6 | |
| Mono Blue Dreadnought | 7 | 14–5 | 73.7 | 2 | 6 | |
| Aggro-Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Izzet Tempo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Midrange | 48 | 50–63 | 44.2 | 1 | 30 | |
| Blink | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Wave Blink | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Orzhov Wave | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Black Midrange | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mono Black Devotion | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Dimir Midrange | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Orzhov Midrange | 3 | 8–3 | 72.7 | 1 | 3 | |
| Ordealbreak | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Ramp | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Cloudpost Ramp | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Cards Played First
- Archfiend of Ifnir
- Brain Gorgers
- Crack the Earth
- Drana, the Last Bloodchief
- Flames of the Firebrand
- Fourth Bridge Prowler
- Game Trail
- Grisly Survivor
- Hush
- Invigorate
- Lethal Sting
- Longtusk Cub
- Patrician's Scorn
- Psychotic Episode
- Psychotic Haze
- Together Forever
- Wander in Death
- Wasteland Scorpion
- Without Weakness
- Zombie Infestation