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 8 weeks, 3 days.
Decks
Record
# Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
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276 | 433–453 | 48.9 | 4 | 35 | 8 | 1541 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 7 | 12–11 | 52.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Werewolves | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Gruul Aggro | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Artifact Aggro | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Affinity | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Rats | 4 | 9–7 | 56.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Combo | 63 | 96–103 | 48.2 | 2 | 7 | 3 |
Reanimator | 5 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 5 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |||
Hypergenesis | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
New Perspectives | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Polymorph | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Storm Herald | 23 | 31–39 | 44.3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Gyruda | 7 | 22–12 | 64.7 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Midnight Mass | 11 | 24–16 | 60.0 | 2 | 3 | |
Control | 35 | 38–65 | 36.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Boros Control | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Cloudpost Control | 3 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 3 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Grixis Control | 16 | 17–24 | 41.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Cruel Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Ponza | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Mono White Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Five Color Control | 7 | 4–16 | 20.0 | |||
Last Stand Control | 7 | 4–16 | 20.0 | |||
Aggro-Combo | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Aristocrats | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Food | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Aggro-Control | 4 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Wizards | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Dimir Tempo | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Combo-Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Midrange | 144 | 246–226 | 52.1 | 2 | 25 | 5 |
The Rock | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Grenzo | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Jund | 5 | 6–10 | 37.5 | 0 | 2 | |
Blink | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 24 | 41–45 | 47.7 | 2 | 4 | |
Naya Midrange | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Big Red | 5 | 10–10 | 50.0 | |||
Mono Black Midrange | 2 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Sultai Midrange | 3 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Heartless Summoning Stompy | 17 | 44–23 | 65.7 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
Ordealbreak | 5 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |||
Enigmatic Incarnation | 5 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |||
Hero of Precinct One | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Five Color Hero | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Artifact Midrange | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Nissa Company | 30 | 56–45 | 55.4 | 0 | 9 | 3 |
Laelia Cascade | 22 | 40–32 | 55.6 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Wight Midrange | 12 | 29–18 | 61.7 | 0 | 3 | |
Jund Wight | 3 | 8–5 | 61.5 | |||
Ramp | 20 | 31–36 | 46.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Cloudpost Ramp | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Domain | 4 | 5–12 | 29.4 | |||
Applejacks | 3 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
Field Ramp | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Avabruck Caretaker
- Bottomless Pool // Locker Room
- Bringer of the Last Gift
- Cemetery Desecrator
- Demonic Counsel
- Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius
- Extus, Oriq Overlord
- Fblthp, Lost on the Range
- Fear of Immobility
- Flicker
- Geological Appraiser
- Gruff Triplets
- Hollow One
- Infernal Tutor
- Invasion of Tolvada
- Kellan Joins Up
- Leyline of Mutation
- Meeting of the Five
- Meria's Outrider
- Mila, Crafty Companion
- Mishra, Tamer of Mak Fawa
- Murderous Rider
- Nashi, Moon's Legacy
- Nezumi Linkbreaker
- Rowan, Scion of War
- Sawhorn Nemesis
- Shinen of Flight's Wings
- Spinewoods Armadillo
- The Mindskinner
- The Rollercrusher Ride
- Underwater Tunnel // Slimy Aquarium
- Virtue of Courage