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, 5 days.
Decks
Record
# Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
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117 | 254–198–7 | 56.2 | 7 | 51 | 2 | 1647 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 44 | 106–64–5 | 62.4 | 5 | 22 | 2 |
Heroic | 4 | 10–4 | 71.4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Mono White Heroic | 3 | 10–3 | 76.9 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Red Deck Wins | 37 | 95–54–5 | 63.8 | 4 | 20 | 1 |
Mono Green Stompy | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | |
White Weenie | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Odric Keywords | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Combo | 10 | 22–17–1 | 56.4 | 1 | 3 | |
Storm | 5 | 10–12–1 | 45.5 | 0 | 2 | |
Sultai Tendrils | 4 | 9–9–1 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Dimir Tendrils | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Reanimator | 1 | 6–1 | 85.7 | 1 | 1 | |
Traditional Reanimator | 1 | 6–1 | 85.7 | 1 | 1 | |
Necro Combo | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Faith Necro | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Hypergenesis | 2 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
Control | 35 | 64–65 | 49.6 | 1 | 16 | |
Mono Black Control | 3 | 6–6 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Demonic Rising | 5 | 15–9 | 62.5 | 1 | 4 | |
Mono Blue Control | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Turbo Xerox | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Azorius Control | 10 | 12–20 | 37.5 | 0 | 5 | |
Izzet Control | 8 | 12–14 | 46.2 | 0 | 3 | |
Stax | 8 | 17–14 | 54.8 | 0 | 3 | |
Pollute the Planet | 8 | 17–14 | 54.8 | 0 | 3 | |
Aggro-Combo | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Trickbind Dreadnought | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Blue Dreadnought | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Combo-Control | 16 | 28–27–1 | 50.9 | 0 | 6 | |
Cruel Combo-Control | 4 | 12–8 | 60.0 | 0 | 3 | |
Displace Loop | 3 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Peregrine Drake | 3 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Mass Land Destruction | 9 | 16–17–1 | 48.5 | 0 | 3 | |
Wildfire | 1 | 2–2–1 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Borderpost Wildfire | 1 | 2–2–1 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Jokulhaups Control | 8 | 14–15 | 48.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Jeskai Jokulhaups Control | 2 | 8–4 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Temur Jokulhaups Control | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
WUBR Jokulhaups Control | 4 | 5–7 | 41.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Midrange | 7 | 7–16 | 30.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Temur Ascendancy | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
The Rock | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Black Midrange | 3 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |||
Hellion Whip | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Ramp | 4 | 12–7 | 63.2 | 0 | 3 | |
Devoid Cruelty | 4 | 12–7 | 63.2 | 0 | 3 |