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 weeks, 2 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 164 | 330–239 | 58.0 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 1851 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 59 | 120–74 | 61.9 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Heroic | 9 | 16–12 | 57.1 | |||
| Mono White Heroic | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Boros Heroic | 8 | 14–9 | 60.9 | |||
| Red Deck Wins | 2 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |||
| Mono Green Stompy | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| White Weenie | 15 | 36–10 | 78.3 | 4 | ||
| Soldiers | 10 | 22–7 | 75.9 | 3 | ||
| Elves | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Tempered Steel | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Voltron | 8 | 18–15 | 54.5 | |||
| Equipment Aggro | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Hateful Auras | 6 | 14–11 | 56.0 | |||
| Knights | 20 | 43–24 | 64.2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Boros Aggro | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Humans | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo | 12 | 23–17 | 57.5 | |||
| Reanimator | 4 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 4 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
| Orzhov Reanimator | 4 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
| Seismic Swans | 3 | 9–2 | 81.8 | |||
| Polymorph | 4 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |||
| Restore Balance | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Control | 23 | 63–38 | 62.4 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| Stax | 7 | 17–12 | 58.6 | 1 | ||
| Pox | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
| Orzhov Control | 14 | 43–22 | 66.2 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Aggro-Control | 40 | 76–58 | 56.7 | 2 | ||
| Izzet Tempo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Azorius Skies | 15 | 17–18 | 48.6 | 1 | ||
| Ninjas | 14 | 35–21 | 62.5 | |||
| Dimir Tempo | 10 | 24–18 | 57.1 | 1 | ||
| Combo-Control | 10 | 14–22 | 38.9 | |||
| Plasma Swans | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
| Mass Land Destruction | 8 | 13–17 | 43.3 | |||
| Wildfire | 7 | 13–15 | 46.4 | |||
| Thryx-Wildfire | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Jokulhaups Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| WUBR Jokulhaups Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Midrange | 14 | 25–20 | 55.6 | 1 | ||
| Jund | 4 | 10–4 | 71.4 | 1 | ||
| Blink | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Wave Blink | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Orzhov Wave | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Rakdos Midrange | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |||
| Sultai Midrange | 5 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
| Ramp | 6 | 9–10 | 47.4 | |||
| Rofellos Ramp | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
| Carth Superfriends | 4 | 4–5 | 44.4 |