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 9 weeks, 4 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 428 | 845–819 | 50.8 | 5 | 87 | 12 | 1515 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 9 | 18–17 | 51.4 | |||
| Red Deck Wins | 2 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |||
| Mono Green Stompy | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Zombies | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Gruul Aggro | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Merfolk | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
| Affinity | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Architect | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Voltron | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Hexproof | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo | 6 | 11–10 | 52.4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Reanimator | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
| Living Death | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
| Hypergenesis | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Breakfast | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Cephalid Breakfast | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Druid Cephalid Breakfast | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Control | 384 | 754–737 | 50.6 | 5 | 84 | 11 |
| Esper Control | 27 | 45–44 | 50.6 | 0 | 8 | 1 |
| Dimir Control | 5 | 9–8 | 52.9 | 0 | 1 | |
| Azorius Control | 25 | 45–44 | 50.6 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Cloudpost Control | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Jeskai Control | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
| Five Color Control | 57 | 113–114 | 49.8 | 2 | 17 | 2 |
| Sultai Control | 10 | 20–14 | 58.8 | 1 | 6 | |
| Guildgate Control | 3 | 6–4 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Bant Control | 67 | 173–140 | 55.3 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Four Color Counter Ghazi | 180 | 324–351 | 48.0 | 1 | 44 | 3 |
| Aggro-Combo | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Aristocrats | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Rakdos Aristocrats | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Azorius Skies | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Dimir Tempo | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 5 | 9–9 | 50.0 | |||
| Battle of Wits | 3 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
| Midrange | 8 | 8–20 | 28.6 | |||
| Temur Ascendancy | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| The Rock | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Abzan Midrange | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
| Mardu Midrange | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Black Midrange | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Ramp | 12 | 21–20 | 51.2 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Arch of Orazca
- Blessed Alliance
- Darksteel Gargoyle
- Desert
- Drown in the Loch
- Esper Charm
- Growth-Chamber Guardian
- Hour of Promise
- Irrigated Farmland
- Lumbering Falls
- Merciless Eviction
- Mythos of Nethroi
- Nether Spirit
- Render Silent
- Rune of Protection: Black
- Rune of Protection: Blue
- Saltblast
- Scavenger Grounds
- See the Unwritten
- Solar Blaze
- Sweet Oblivion
- To the Slaughter
- True Believer
- Vault of the Archangel
- Wargate
- Weathered Runestone