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 1 day, 9 hours.
Congratulations to vagstor, winner of The Penny Dreadful 500 (Season 35)
Recent Top League Decks
| ⇅ | Colors | Name | Person | Record | OMW | Date |
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| ★★ | Close Enough, Welcome Back Plasma Swans | memewalker | 5–0 | 50% | 31 minutes ago | |
| ★★ | Izzet Control | cat_weasle | 5–0 | 53% | 2 days ago | |
| ★★ | Jundy Jundy Jund Jund | kwww | 5–0 | 53% | 2 days ago | |
| ★★ | Azorius Lutri Control | jonsnow214 | 5–0 | 56% | 2 days ago | |
| ★★ | Azorius | 2for1for2 | 5–0 | 45% | 4 days ago | |
| ★★ | Indefatigable v3 | bakert99 | 5–0 | 10% | 5 days ago | |
| ★★ | Ooze | onefatcow | 5–0 | 43% | 6 days ago | |
| ★★ | Izzet Twin v4 | piruvato | 5–0 | 44% | 1 week ago |
Latest Tournament Top 8
| ⇅ | Colors | Name | Person | Record | Top 8 | Date |
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| ★★★ | Jund-Wight | thatonegamer4202 | 5–1 | ① | 1 day ago | |
| ★★ | Vagstor Yorzhov | hairyfroglegs | 4–2 | ② | 1 day ago | |
| ★★ | Yorzhov | vagstor | 3–2 | ④ | 1 day ago | |
| ★★ | White-Weenie | poposin_hyde | 3–2 | ④ | 1 day ago | |
| Dimir Flash | entrpy2352 | 2–2 | 1 day ago | |||
| Yorzhov | dl23 | 2–2 | 1 day ago | |||
| Otter Be Playing Cloud Control | maliciousdragon | 1–3 | 1 day ago | |||
| Fauna Wight | miss_input | 0–2 | 1 day ago |
Latest Decks
| ⇅ | Colors | Name | Person | Source | Record | Top 8 | Date |
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| ★★ | Close Enough, Welcome Back Plasma Swans | memewalker | League | 5–0 | 31 minutes ago | ||
| Razer and Tokar | cippdogg | League | 3–2 | 3 hours ago | |||
| Rabbits! | swamp_thing | League | 0–1 | 3 hours ago | |||
| Esper Control | carmandor | League | 0–1 | 6 hours ago | |||
| Esper Reanimator | carmandor | League | 0–1 | 7 hours ago | |||
| Esper Reanimator | carmandor | League | 3–2 | 8 hours ago | |||
| Ramp | nef_x | League | 17 hours ago | ||||
| Mono Green Ramp | nef_x | League | 1–1 | 18 hours ago | |||
| ★ | Mono White Heroic | bakert99 | League | 4–1 | 19 hours ago | ||
| Azorius | 2for1for2 | League | 0–1 | 21 hours ago | |||
| Mba | swamp_thing | League | 0–1 | 21 hours ago | |||
| ★ | Mono White Heroic | bakert99 | League | 4–1 | 21 hours ago | ||
| Mono Green Ramp | nef_x | League | 0–2 | 21 hours ago | |||
| Izzet Control | hobosock | League | 1–4 | 21 hours ago | |||
| Braid of Fire | ipox | League | 0–1 | 1 day ago | |||
| Excruciator | iamcraycray661 | League | 2–0 | 1 day ago | |||
| Near-Death Experience | ipox | League | 1–2 | 1 day ago | |||
| Discarrrrrrd | swamp_thing | League | 1–1 | 1 day ago | |||
| BlackPost | maliciousdragon | League | 1–3 | 1 day ago | |||
| Stax | cardgameaddict | League | 3–2 | 1 day ago |
Top Cards
| Card | # Decks | Record | Win % |
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| Pithing Needle | 1101 | 1681–1840 | 47.7 |
| Duress | 911 | 1472–1526 | 49.1 |
| Memory Lapse | 878 | 1446–1310 | 52.5 |
| Birds of Paradise | 616 | 1035–1013 | 50.5 |
| Lost Legacy | 592 | 1001–974 | 50.7 |
| Dark Ritual | 589 | 1046–984 | 51.5 |
| Void Mirror | 572 | 1078–892 | 54.7 |
| Caves of Koilos | 530 | 966–911 | 51.5 |
Tournaments
Penny Dreadful Thursdays is in 1 day, 1 hour.
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Penny Dreadful Thursdays |
League November 2024 |
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Penny Dreadful FNM |
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Penny Dreadful Saturdays |
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APAC Penny Dreadful Sundays |
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Penny Dreadful Sundays |
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Penny Dreadful Mondays |
News
- memewalker went 5–0 in League November 2024 with Close Enough, Welcome Back Plasma Swans 31 minutes ago
- Bump types-setuptools from 75.1.0.20240917 to 75.5.0.20241122 1 hour ago
- Bump pydantic from 2.9.2 to 2.10.0 1 hour ago
- Bump setuptools from 75.5.0 to 75.6.0 1 hour ago
- Bump google-api-python-client from 2.153.0 to 2.154.0 1 hour ago
- Bump traceback-with-variables from 2.1.0 to 2.1.1 1 day ago
- Bump aiohttp from 3.11.2 to 3.11.6 1 day ago
- Bump types-setuptools from 75.1.0.20240917 to 75.5.0.20241121 1 day ago
- thatonegamer4202 won Penny Dreadful Mondays 35.07 with Jund-Wight 1 day ago
- Revert "Don't clear decksite rotation cache via web, be more direct" 2 days ago
Season 35
Season 35 began Oct 4th and ends 1 day from now.
Community Stats
League and Tournament Matches Played
- 29 matches played today
- 541 matches played this week
- 2,293 matches played this month
- 5,244 matches played this season
- 373,289 matches played all time