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, 3 days.
Decks
Record
# Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
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288 | 575–377 | 60.4 | 8 | 48 | 17 | 1773 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 61 | 145–77 | 65.3 | 2 | 13 | 5 |
Heroic | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Azorius Heroic | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Tokens | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono White Tokens | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Green Stompy | 3 | 12–3 | 80.0 | 1 | ||
White Weenie | 21 | 39–26 | 60.0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Chroma White | 9 | 19–10 | 65.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Elves | 15 | 34–18 | 65.4 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
Selesnya Little Kid | 3 | 6–4 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Gruul Aggro | 7 | 26–11 | 70.3 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Mono Blue Aggro | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Illusions | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Voltron | 2 | 6–3 | 66.7 | |||
Equipment Aggro | 2 | 6–3 | 66.7 | |||
Rakdos Aggro | 4 | 16–4 | 80.0 | 1 | ||
Combo | 54 | 130–70 | 65.0 | 3 | 13 | 4 |
Reanimator | 25 | 59–34 | 63.4 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Recurring Nightmare | 11 | 27–13 | 67.5 | 2 | ||
Dragon Nightmare | 8 | 23–9 | 71.9 | 2 | ||
Living Death | 14 | 32–21 | 60.4 | 0 | 3 | |
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 9 | 26–9 | 74.3 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
"Twin" | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Metalwork Colossus | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Eggs | 3 | 4–4 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Heartless Summoning Combo | 3 | 7–3 | 70.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Blazing Shoal Combo | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Retraction Helix Combo | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Jokulhaups Combo | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |||
Breakfast | 5 | 19–6 | 76.0 | 1 | 4 | |
Cephalid Breakfast | 5 | 19–6 | 76.0 | 1 | 4 | |
Druid Cephalid Breakfast | 5 | 19–6 | 76.0 | 1 | 4 | |
Stuffy Doll | 2 | 8–2 | 80.0 | |||
Control | 51 | 77–66 | 53.8 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
Mono Black Control | 6 | 9–10 | 47.4 | |||
Dimir Control | 5 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |||
Azorius Control | 4 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |||
Izzet Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Cloudpost Control | 11 | 32–12 | 72.7 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
Blackpost | 9 | 31–10 | 75.6 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Grixis Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Stagnant Control | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Five Color Control | 2 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
Four Color Counter Ghazi | 6 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |||
Orzhov Control | 11 | 14–17 | 45.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Aggro-Combo | 17 | 20–24 | 45.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Aristocrats | 8 | 10–12 | 45.5 | 1 | ||
Golgari Aristocrats | 4 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
Abzan Aristocrats | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Infect | 5 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |||
Blazing Shoal Infect | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Aggro-Control | 19 | 55–24 | 69.6 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
Simic Flash | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
Simic Vat | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
Blue Madness | 3 | 7–5 | 58.3 | |||
12 Pest | 12 | 38–15 | 71.7 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
Dimir Tempo | 2 | 7–2 | 77.8 | 1 | ||
Combo-Control | 26 | 38–36 | 51.4 | 1 | ||
Cruel Combo-Control | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Sunforger | 4 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |||
Curious Niv-Mizzet | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Mass Land Destruction | 17 | 31–24 | 56.4 | 1 | ||
Wildfire | 17 | 31–24 | 56.4 | 1 | ||
Midrange | 43 | 71–55 | 56.3 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Blink | 3 | 11–4 | 73.3 | |||
Graveyard Value | 3 | 9–4 | 69.2 | 1 | 2 | |
Mardu Midrange | 4 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Vampires | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Rakdos Vampires | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Legends Midrange | 4 | 9–3 | 75.0 | 1 | ||
Mardu Legends | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Elementals | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 7 | 14–12 | 53.8 | |||
Mono Black Midrange | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Hellion Whip | 3 | 6–4 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Death Cloud | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Ramp | 17 | 33–25 | 56.9 | 1 | 7 | |
Rofellos Ramp | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Cloudpost Ramp | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Eldrazipost | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Ancestral Tribute
- Arrows of Justice
- Darksteel Ingot
- Dawn Elemental
- Diligent Excavator
- Ego Erasure
- Ghost-Lit Stalker
- Graveyard Shovel
- Guildmages' Forum
- Hackrobat
- Hystrodon
- Integrity // Intervention
- Kher Keep
- Lesser Masticore
- Myr Matrix
- Rakdos Riteknife
- Relic Barrier
- Rune Snag
- Scorching Lava
- Seedtime
- Shining Shoal
- Sinister Sabotage
- Sphinx's Decree
- Tribute Mage
- Vengeful Pharaoh
- Wolf of Devil's Breach