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 11 weeks, 5 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 314 | 364–570 | 39.0 | 2 | 1416 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 22 | 32–26 | 55.2 | |||
| Red Deck Wins | 4 | 13–7 | 65.0 | |||
| Tokens | 1 | |||||
| Orzhov Tokens | 1 | |||||
| Elves | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Selesnya Little Kid | 1 | |||||
| Gruul Aggro | 11 | 19–18 | 51.4 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 1 | |||||
| Salvage Titan | 1 | |||||
| Naya Zoo | 2 | |||||
| Combo | 119 | 108–220 | 32.9 | 1 | ||
| Storm | 64 | 45–112 | 28.7 | |||
| Dragonstorm | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Hazoret Storm | 39 | 31–56 | 35.6 | |||
| Grixis Tendrils | 12 | 7–34 | 17.1 | |||
| Izzet Storm | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Reanimator | 4 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
| Worldgorger Dragon | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Rakdos Reanimator | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Oriss Genesis | 3 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
| Hypergenesis | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Fake-Twin | 2 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |||
| Izzet Ascension | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Ominous Good | 4 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
| Breakfast | 21 | 28–39 | 41.8 | 1 | ||
| Oops All Spells | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Oops All Lands | 13 | 12–28 | 30.0 | |||
| Dredge | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
| Intruder Alarm | 3 | 9–6 | 60.0 | |||
| Control | 48 | 39–94 | 29.3 | |||
| Azorius Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Ponza | 13 | 16–25 | 39.0 | |||
| Cycling Control | 24 | 17–45 | 27.4 | |||
| Astral Slide | 24 | 17–45 | 27.4 | |||
| Bant Control | 10 | 5–22 | 18.5 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 63 | 115–113 | 50.4 | 1 | ||
| Aristocrats | 7 | 9–13 | 40.9 | |||
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 5 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |||
| Golgari Aristocrats | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Rakdos Aristocrats | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Burn | 1 | |||||
| Infect | 29 | 66–56 | 54.1 | 1 | ||
| Simic Infect | 25 | 62–44 | 58.5 | 1 | ||
| Blazing Shoal Infect | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Golgari Infect | 3 | 2–9 | 18.2 | |||
| Trickbind Dreadnought | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Combo Goblins | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Goblin Persist | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Dirty Kitty | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 37 | 44–62 | 41.5 | |||
| Izzet Tempo | 3 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
| Blue Madness | 1 | |||||
| Temur Madness | 1 | |||||
| Azorius Tempo | 10 | 11–20 | 35.5 | |||
| Combo-Control | 2 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
| Hive Mind | 2 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
| Midrange | 17 | 13–37 | 26.0 | |||
| Abzan Midrange | 4 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |||
| Jund | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Orzhov Midrange | 2 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
| Neoform | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Artifact Midrange | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Ramp | 6 | 7–12 | 36.8 | |||
| Applejacks | 1 | 1–5 | 16.7 |