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, 3 days.
Decks
Record
# Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
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253 | 466–404 | 53.6 | 4 | 45 | 12 | 1743 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 37 | 76–44 | 63.3 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
Heroic | 6 | 14–6 | 70.0 | 1 | 2 | |
Boros Heroic | 6 | 14–6 | 70.0 | 1 | 2 | |
Red Deck Wins | 17 | 41–23 | 64.1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Mono Green Stompy | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
White Weenie | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Soldiers | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Mono Red Swarm | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
8 Whack | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Artifact Aggro | 4 | 5–3 | 62.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Affinity | 4 | 5–3 | 62.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Hardened Scales Affinity | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Knights | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
AggroSlide | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
Humans | 1 | |||||
Boros Humans | 1 | |||||
Legends Aggro | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Boros Legends Aggro | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Combo | 58 | 128–99 | 56.4 | 1 | 10 | 4 |
Storm | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
High Tide | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Reanimator | 3 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |||
Starlit Graves | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Mono Black Reanimator | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Jeskai Ascendancy | 31 | 68–52 | 56.7 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 25 | 53–42 | 55.8 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
Five Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 6 | 15–10 | 60.0 | |||
Fake-Twin | 5 | 9–11 | 45.0 | |||
Jeskai Fake-Twin | 4 | 9–8 | 52.9 | |||
Naya Fake-Twin | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Metalwork Colossus | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Anvil Colossus | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Breakfast | 15 | 41–20 | 67.2 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
Oops All Spells | 10 | 27–13 | 67.5 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
Neoform Hermit | 5 | 14–7 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Actual Twin | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Izzet Twin | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Control | 71 | 88–121 | 42.1 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
Esper Control | 19 | 34–32 | 51.5 | 0 | 5 | |
Mono Blue Control | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Dimir Control | 4 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Azorius Control | 5 | 7–8 | 46.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Mardu Control | 7 | 8–9 | 47.1 | |||
Cloudpost Control | 2 | 2–6 | 25.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono White Cloudpost Control | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Grixis Control | 2 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
Stax | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Jeskai Control | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Dragon Control | 5 | 7–8 | 46.7 | |||
Izzet Dragons | 5 | 7–8 | 46.7 | |||
Mono White Control | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Life is Ez | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Dynavolt Tower | 6 | 9–10 | 47.4 | |||
Cycling Control | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Astral Slide | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Seasons Past Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Orzhov Control | 6 | 6–11 | 35.3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Prison | 5 | 5–9 | 35.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Enchantress | 4 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
Aggro-Combo | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
Aristocrats | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Orzhov Aristocrats | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Burn | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Aggro-Control | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Mono Blue Tempo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Blue Faeries | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Dimir Tempo | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Combo-Control | 27 | 57–40 | 58.8 | 1 | 10 | |
Battle of Wits | 4 | 6–7 | 46.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Mass Land Destruction | 23 | 51–33 | 60.7 | 1 | 9 | |
Jokulhaups Control | 23 | 51–33 | 60.7 | 1 | 9 | |
Grixis Jokulhaups Control | 7 | 21–10 | 67.7 | 1 | 2 | |
WUBR Jokulhaups Control | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Mardu Jokulhaups Control | 13 | 29–20 | 59.2 | 0 | 7 | |
Midrange | 53 | 100–88 | 53.2 | 1 | 11 | 3 |
Abzan Midrange | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Blink | 4 | 4–10 | 28.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Wave Blink | 2 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
Azorius Wave | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Orzhov Blink | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Graveyard Value | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Mardu Midrange | 17 | 45–23 | 66.2 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
Vampires | 5 | 12–7 | 63.2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Mono Black Vampires | 5 | 12–7 | 63.2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Legends Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Selesnya Legends | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 2 | 7–2 | 77.8 | 1 | ||
Naya Midrange | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Mono Black Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Dimir Midrange | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Sultai Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Orzhov Midrange | 4 | 9–8 | 52.9 | 0 | 2 | |
Fires of Invention | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Hero of Precinct One | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Naya Hero | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Artifact Midrange | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Game Objects | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Ramp | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Rofellos Ramp | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Carth Superfriends | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 |