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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92 | 137–207 | 39.8 | 3 | 1 | 1437 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |||
| Voltron | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |||
| Hateful Auras | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |||
| Combo | 50 | 74–120 | 38.1 | 0 | 3 | |
| Storm | 17 | 36–35 | 50.7 | 0 | 1 | |
| Hazoret Storm | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Citadel Storm | 14 | 34–28 | 54.8 | 0 | 1 | |
| Reanimator | 5 | 13–12 | 52.0 | |||
| Worldgorger Dragon | 5 | 13–12 | 52.0 | |||
| Heartless Summoning Combo | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Taking Turns | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Izzet Ascension | 4 | 8–12 | 40.0 | |||
| Dredge | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
| Insidious Roots Dredge | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
| Intruder Alarm | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Calibrated Blast | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Phoenix Altar | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Control | 13 | 16–26 | 38.1 | |||
| Mono Blue Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Dimir Control | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Azorius Control | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Turbo Fog | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Izzet Control | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Mill | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Stax | 4 | 8–8 | 50.0 | |||
| Jeskai Control | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Mono White Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 6 | 8–12 | 40.0 | |||
| Aristocrats | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Abzan Aristocrats | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Burn | 4 | 8–9 | 47.1 | |||
| Necro Burn | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 6 | 9–8 | 52.9 | 1 | ||
| Izzet Tempo | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Tempo | 4 | 8–7 | 53.3 | 1 | ||
| Combo-Control | 5 | 6–12 | 33.3 | |||
| Burning Vengeance | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Thopter-Sword | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Dimir Thopter-Sword | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Midrange | 9 | 8–25 | 24.2 | |||
| The Rock | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Selesnya Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Lifegain Midrange | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Martyr's Grace | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Orzhov Midrange | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Jeskai Midrange | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Artifact Midrange | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Game Objects | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Ramp | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Altar of the Brood
- Axebane Guardian
- Clock of Omens
- Crab Umbra
- Dizzy Spell
- Doomed Dissenter
- Dramatic Reversal
- Efficient Construction
- Fog Bank
- Gate to the Afterlife
- Gomazoa
- Hidetsugu and Kairi
- Mortus Strider
- Nature's Spiral
- Needlebite Trap
- Oracle's Vault
- Phyrexia's Core
- Psychic Membrane
- Pygmy Kavu
- Reweave
- Riddlesmith
- Roar of Reclamation
- Scuttling Doom Engine
- Select for Inspection
- Servo Schematic
- Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer
- Smokestack
- Spawning Pit
- Sphinx of Jwar Isle
- Sylvan Caryatid
- Thassa's Ire
- The Locust God
- Twisted Image
- Vedalken Engineer
- Village Bell-Ringer
- Wall of Mulch
- Wall of Vines
- Workshop Assistant