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 12 weeks, 2 days.
Decks
Record
# Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
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778 | 1023–918 | 52.7 | 11 | 64 | 31 | 2046 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 227 | 389–234 | 62.4 | 6 | 29 | 14 |
Mono Black Aggro | 10 | 16–11 | 59.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Heroic | 13 | 26–17 | 60.5 | 0 | 4 | |
Mono White Heroic | 9 | 17–11 | 60.7 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 3 | 5–4 | 55.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Boros Heroic | 1 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Red Deck Wins | 95 | 175–85 | 67.3 | 2 | 11 | 11 |
Goblins | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Tokens | 3 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Mono White Tokens | 3 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Mono Green Stompy | 9 | 16–5 | 76.2 | 1 | 2 | |
White Weenie | 15 | 35–20 | 63.6 | 3 | 4 | |
Mono White Humans | 4 | 7–7 | 50.0 | |||
Elves | 3 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Zombies | 8 | 10–9 | 52.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Red Swarm | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Artifact Aggro | 27 | 52–32 | 61.9 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Affinity | 3 | 7–4 | 63.6 | 1 | ||
Tempered Steel | 2 | 5–2 | 71.4 | |||
Mono Blue Architect | 22 | 40–26 | 60.6 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Mono Blue Aggro | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Illusions | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Madness | 9 | 11–8 | 57.9 | 1 | ||
Gruul Madness | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Rakdos Madness | 7 | 10–7 | 58.8 | 1 | ||
Voltron | 8 | 14–12 | 53.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Hexproof | 7 | 13–8 | 61.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Equipment Aggro | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Naya Zoo | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |||
Knights | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
AggroSlide | 5 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
Cats | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Selesnya Cats | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Boros Aggro | 5 | 5–5 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Red Eldrazi | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Legends Aggro | 4 | 9–3 | 75.0 | |||
Boros Legends Aggro | 3 | 6–2 | 75.0 | |||
Bard Class | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
Permanent Vacation | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Combo | 292 | 353–363 | 49.3 | 3 | 19 | 13 |
Storm | 48 | 62–62 | 50.0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Dragonstorm | 3 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Hazoret Storm | 8 | 13–13 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Citadel Storm | 3 | 6–5 | 54.5 | |||
High Tide | 21 | 31–25 | 55.4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Grixis Tendrils | 3 | 6–3 | 66.7 | 1 | ||
Paradoxical Outcome Storm | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Izzet Storm | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Channel Storm | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Reanimator | 33 | 45–39 | 53.6 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Recurring Nightmare | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Worldgorger Dragon | 3 | 6–5 | 54.5 | 1 | ||
Double Dragon | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 28 | 39–31 | 55.7 | 2 | 2 | |
Mono Black Reanimator | 26 | 39–29 | 57.4 | 2 | 2 | |
Biovisionary | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Dubious Challenge | 33 | 27–53 | 33.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Warp World | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Boros Glimpse | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Maniac Combo | 7 | 8–9 | 47.1 | |||
Hypergenesis | 14 | 17–15 | 53.1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Jeskai Ascendancy | 6 | 8–8 | 50.0 | |||
Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 6 | 8–8 | 50.0 | |||
Fake-Twin | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Naya Fake-Twin | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Metalwork Colossus | 2 | 5–2 | 71.4 | |||
Anvil Colossus | 2 | 5–2 | 71.4 | |||
Eggs | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Blazing Shoal Combo | 36 | 58–39 | 59.8 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Izzet Ascension | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Ominous Good | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Soulflayer | 5 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Breakfast | 46 | 75–48 | 61.0 | 0 | 9 | 3 |
Hermit Gond | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Hermit Dredge | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Oops All Spells | 41 | 71–43 | 62.3 | 0 | 9 | 3 |
Neoform Hermit | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Oops All Lands | 7 | 6–11 | 35.3 | |||
Dredge | 3 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Polymorph | 5 | 5–8 | 38.5 | |||
Protean Hulk Combo | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Storm Herald | 5 | 4–11 | 26.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Ad Nauseam | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Ad Swanseam | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Tibalt's Trickery | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Calibrated Blast | 3 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Restore Balance | 2 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Gyruda | 2 | 6–2 | 75.0 | |||
Stuffy Doll | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Belcher | 4 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Possibility Storm | 4 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
Phoenix Altar | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Amalia Combo | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Control | 47 | 49–59 | 45.4 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Esper Control | 7 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
Dimir Control | 5 | 12–5 | 70.6 | |||
Azorius Control | 6 | 8–6 | 57.1 | |||
Turbo Fog | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Izzet Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mill | 2 | 5–2 | 71.4 | 1 | ||
Boros Control | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Grixis Control | 1 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Runeflare | 2 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
Ponza | 3 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
Mono White Control | 9 | 12–13 | 48.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Life is Ez | 8 | 12–12 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Sultai Control | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Pox | 1 | |||||
Orzhov Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Prison | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Enchantress | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Aggro-Combo | 54 | 68–63 | 51.9 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Aristocrats | 3 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
Rakdos Aristocrats | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Burn | 5 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Infect | 14 | 10–16 | 38.5 | 0 | 2 | |
Blazing Shoal Infect | 14 | 10–16 | 38.5 | 0 | 2 | |
Hermit Humans | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Trickbind Dreadnought | 25 | 41–28 | 59.4 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Mono Blue Dreadnought | 14 | 26–16 | 61.9 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Izzet Blitzkrieg | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Chancellor of the Forge Combo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Combo Goblins | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Goblin Persist | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Aggro-Control | 11 | 5–17 | 22.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Izzet Tempo | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
Mono Blue Tempo | 6 | 3–11 | 21.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Ensoul Aggro-Control | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Combo-Control | 24 | 21–25 | 45.7 | 1 | 1 | |
Battle of Wits | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Mindcrank | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Hive Mind | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Liliana's Contract | 4 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
Mass Land Destruction | 14 | 14–11 | 56.0 | 1 | 1 | |
Wildfire | 6 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Borderpost Wildfire | 6 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
Jokulhaups Control | 8 | 10–5 | 66.7 | 1 | 1 | |
Grixis Jokulhaups Control | 6 | 9–3 | 75.0 | 1 | 1 | |
Archfiend Alteration | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Midrange | 95 | 91–123 | 42.5 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
The Rock | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Abzan Midrange | 3 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
Selesnya Midrange | 5 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
Jund | 6 | 11–7 | 61.1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Blink | 8 | 8–8 | 50.0 | |||
Wave Blink | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Azorius Wave | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Orzhov Wave | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Orzhov Blink | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |||
Allies | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Boros Allies | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Fake-Rack | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Vampires | 4 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |||
Mono Black Vampires | 4 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |||
Elementals | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 5 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
Naya Midrange | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Big Red | 3 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Mono Black Midrange | 7 | 1–9 | 10.0 | |||
Necro Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Toughness Matters | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Lifegain Midrange | 5 | 7–8 | 46.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Sultai Midrange | 4 | 2–5 | 28.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Fight Rigging | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Orzhov Midrange | 3 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
Jeskai Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Heartless Summoning Stompy | 13 | 14–16 | 46.7 | 1 | 3 | |
Fires of Invention | 7 | 7–13 | 35.0 | |||
Hero of Precinct One | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Naya Hero | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Simic Snow | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Coinflips | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Ramp | 25 | 33–32 | 50.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Rofellos Ramp | 3 | 3–4 | 42.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Cloudpost Ramp | 4 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
Greenpost | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Gruul Post | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Simic Post | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Applejacks | 18 | 28–20 | 58.3 | |||
Unclassified | 3 | 3–2 | 60.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
- Ageless Guardian
- Alaborn Musketeer
- Allied Assault
- Ambush Party
- Angelheart Protector
- Ashen Monstrosity
- Assault on Osgiliath
- Axgard Braggart
- Battershield Warrior
- Battle Plan
- Blade Banish
- Blade-Tribe Berserkers
- Bloodthorn Taunter
- Burning-Yard Trainer
- Captivating Unicorn
- Caught Red-Handed
- Celestial Enforcer
- Chandra's Firemaw
- Char-Rumbler
- Checkpoint Officer
- Chromium
- Cliffhaven Sell-Sword
- Combat Medic
- Combat Professor
- Coordinated Charge
- Daysquad Marshal
- Defend the Campus
- Emeria Captain
- Eron the Relentless
- Falconer Adept
- Farsight Adept
- Ferocification
- Flameborn Hellion
- Flowstone Channeler
- Flowstone Hellion
- Flowstone Strike
- Furnace Spirit
- Gale Swooper
- Gerrard's Irregulars
- Giant Cockroach
- Giant Trap Door Spider
- Glory Bearers
- Gods' Hall Guardian
- Goldmaw Champion
- Halam Djinn
- Helica Glider
- Hell-Bent Raider
- Hero of the Winds
- Hotfoot Gnome
- Involuntary Employment
- Iron-Barb Hellion
- Kabira Outrider
- Knight of the Keep
- Lava Hounds
- Leonin of the Lost Pride
- Leviathan
- Lorehold Pledgemage
- Makeshift Battalion
- Makindi Ox
- Master Skald
- Mesa Lynx
- Metallic Mastery
- Minotaur Tactician
- Night Revelers
- Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink
- Paired Tactician
- Patagia Tiger
- Pillardrop Rescuer
- Polar Kraken
- Racecourse Fury
- Rage Weaver
- Raging Minotaur
- Razorjaw Oni
- Resupply
- Rhuk, Hexgold Nabber
- Rowan, Fearless Sparkmage
- Rush the Room
- Savai Sabertooth
- Scorch Rider
- Screaming Fury
- Sea Gate Banneret
- Secure the Scene
- Shepherd of Heroes
- Siege Striker
- Silverquill Pledgemage
- Stonerise Spirit
- Story Seeker
- Study Break
- Take for a Ride
- Tazeem Raptor
- Tenement Crasher
- The Shattered States Era
- Thunder Brute
- Toralf, God of Fury
- Traitorous Instinct
- True Polymorph
- Twist Allegiance
- Uncanny Speed
- Valorous Steed
- Vastwood Zendikon
- Vengeful Firebrand
- Vulshok Berserker
- Warded Battlements
- Warhorn Blast
- Whip Sergeant
- Wild Colos
- Witch's Clinic
- Withstand
Cards Played First
- A Killer Among Us
- Ageless Guardian
- Alaborn Musketeer
- Allied Assault
- Alrund, God of the Cosmos
- Ambush Party
- Angel of Suffering
- Angelheart Protector
- Ankle Biter
- Arni Metalbrow
- Ashen Monstrosity
- Assault on Osgiliath
- Atarka's Command
- Aurelia, the Warleader
- Axgard Braggart
- Baral and Kari Zev
- Bard Class
- Battershield Warrior
- Battle Plan
- Blade Banish
- Blade-Tribe Berserkers
- Bloodline Pretender
- Bloodthorn Taunter
- Breya's Apprentice
- Burning-Yard Trainer
- Cabaretti Courtyard
- Calamity, Galloping Inferno
- Call a Surprise Witness
- Callous Sell-Sword
- Canyon Jerboa
- Captivating Cave
- Captivating Unicorn
- Caught Red-Handed
- Celestial Enforcer
- Chandra's Firemaw
- Char-Rumbler
- Checkpoint Officer
- Chromium
- Cliffhaven Sell-Sword
- Combat Medic
- Combat Professor
- Combine Chrysalis
- Coordinated Charge
- Danitha, New Benalia's Light
- Dauntless Unity
- Daysquad Marshal
- Defend the Campus
- Dog Walker
- Dragonwing Glider
- Dreadfeast Demon
- Dreadmaw's Ire
- Dual Strike
- Emeria Captain
- Emeria, the Sky Ruin
- Emissary of Grudges
- Enduring Courage
- Eron the Relentless
- Expose the Culprit
- Extract a Confession
- Fae Offering
- Falconer Adept
- False Dawn
- Farsight Adept
- Ferocification
- Festerleech
- Flameborn Hellion
- Flare of Duplication
- Fleeting Spirit
- Floodhound
- Flowstone Channeler
- Flowstone Hellion
- Flowstone Strike
- Furnace Spirit
- Gale Swooper
- Garruk, Unleashed
- Gerrard's Irregulars
- Giant Cockroach
- Giant Trap Door Spider
- Glory Bearers
- Gods' Hall Guardian
- Goldmaw Champion
- Graf Reaver
- Halam Djinn
- Helica Glider
- Hell-Bent Raider
- Hero of the Winds
- Hotfoot Gnome
- Involuntary Employment
- Iron-Barb Hellion
- Isperia, Supreme Judge
- Jack-o'-Lantern
- Kabira Outrider
- Kappa Tech-Wrecker
- Karoo Meerkat
- Knight of the Keep
- Lava Hounds
- Legion's Landing
- Leonin of the Lost Pride
- Leviathan
- Lorehold Pledgemage
- Lucky Offering
- Magus of the Will
- Makeshift Battalion
- Makindi Ox
- Master Skald
- Mesa Lynx
- Metallic Mastery
- Mindlink Mech
- Minotaur Tactician
- Mosswort Bridge
- Night Revelers
- Norin, Swift Survivalist
- Not on My Watch
- Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink
- Pain // Suffering
- Paired Tactician
- Patagia Tiger
- Phyrexian Unlife
- Pillardrop Rescuer
- Polar Kraken
- Racecourse Fury
- Rage Weaver
- Raging Minotaur
- Razorfield Thresher
- Razorjaw Oni
- Red Herring
- Reshape
- Restless Ridgeline
- Resupply
- Rhuk, Hexgold Nabber
- Roiling Regrowth
- Rowan, Fearless Sparkmage
- Rush the Room
- Savai Sabertooth
- Scorch Rider
- Screaming Fury
- Sea Gate Banneret
- Secure the Scene
- Shepherd of Heroes
- Siege Striker
- Sigarda's Splendor
- Silverquill Pledgemage
- Stalwart Valkyrie
- Staunch Shieldmate
- Stonerise Spirit
- Story Seeker
- Study Break
- Sword of Body and Mind
- Take for a Ride
- Tazeem Raptor
- Tempered Veteran
- Tenement Crasher
- Terisian Mindbreaker
- The Shattered States Era
- Thermopod
- Thunder Brute
- Toralf, God of Fury
- Torens, Fist of the Angels
- Traitorous Instinct
- Trelasarra, Moon Dancer
- Trial of Agony
- True Polymorph
- Turn Inside Out
- Twist Allegiance
- Uncanny Speed
- Valorous Steed
- Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
- Vastwood Zendikon
- Vengeful Firebrand
- Viashino Branchrider
- Vicious Clown
- Volatile Arsonist
- Vulshok Berserker
- Warded Battlements
- Warhorn Blast
- Whip Sergeant
- Wild Colos
- Witch's Clinic
- Withstand
- Yavimaya Iconoclast
- You Are Already Dead
- You Find Some Prisoners