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 4 weeks, 5 days.
Decks
Record
# Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
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271 | 314–322 | 49.4 | 20 | 5 | 1577 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 56 | 69–65 | 51.5 | 0 | 6 | |
Mono Black Aggro | 10 | 18–18 | 50.0 | 0 | 5 | |
Gruul Aggro | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Gruul Landfall | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Artifact Aggro | 27 | 33–27 | 55.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Affinity | 3 | 11–4 | 73.3 | |||
Salvage Titan | 24 | 22–23 | 48.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Madness | 15 | 15–17 | 46.9 | |||
Gruul Madness | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Rakdos Madness | 6 | 7–7 | 50.0 | |||
Jund Madness | 7 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
Rakdos Aggro | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Combo | 87 | 130–109 | 54.4 | 0 | 8 | 3 |
Storm | 4 | 3–8 | 27.3 | 0 | 1 | |
High Tide | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Grixis Tendrils | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Reanimator | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Worldgorger Dragon | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Dimir Reanimator | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Black Reanimator | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Oriss Genesis | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Warp World | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Jeskai Ascendancy | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Jeskai Jeskai Ascendancy | 2 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Metalwork Colossus | 8 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
Eggs | 4 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Blazing Shoal Combo | 3 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
Izzet Ascension | 49 | 104–55 | 65.4 | 0 | 7 | 3 |
Enduring Ideal | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Tibalt's Trickery | 6 | 7–12 | 36.8 | |||
Phoenix Altar | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Control | 28 | 5–32 | 13.5 | |||
Esper Control | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Dimir Control | 11 | 1–16 | 5.9 | |||
Azorius Control | 3 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Cawblade | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Izzet Control | 4 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Jeskai Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Sultai Control | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Temur Reclamation | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Prison | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Aggro-Combo | 14 | 15–13 | 53.6 | |||
Burn | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Necro Burn | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Infect | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Blazing Shoal Infect | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Trickbind Dreadnought | 4 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
Mono Blue Dreadnought | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Izzet Blitzkrieg | 4 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |||
Aggro-Control | 55 | 67–68 | 49.6 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
Izzet Tempo | 11 | 16–10 | 61.5 | |||
Blue Madness | 5 | 6–5 | 54.5 | |||
Simic Madness | 3 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
Ninjas | 4 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Mono Blue Gush | 9 | 6–17 | 26.1 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono Blue Tempo | 5 | 10–9 | 52.6 | 0 | 2 | |
Izzet Spells | 8 | 14–7 | 66.7 | |||
Dimir Tempo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Ensoul Aggro-Control | 4 | 8–4 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Azorius Tempo | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Combo-Control | 6 | 7–5 | 58.3 | |||
Solar Flare | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Plasma Swans | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |||
Mass Land Destruction | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Jokulhaups Control | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Jeskai Jokulhaups Control | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Midrange | 22 | 9–24 | 27.3 | |||
Graveyard Value | 11 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |||
Varolz Dreadnought | 2 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Mardu Midrange | 4 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Dimir Midrange | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Jeskai Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Ramp | 3 | 9–6 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Rofellos Ramp | 3 | 9–6 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Channel-Rofellos | 3 | 9–6 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |