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 week, 6 days.
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 1333 | 2449–2210 | 52.6 | 20 | 204 | 61 |
Mono Black Aggro | 23 | 27–49 | 35.5 | 0 | 6 | |
Heroic | 15 | 15–26 | 36.6 | |||
Mono White Heroic | 2 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
Azorius Heroic | 2 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Boros Heroic | 9 | 13–10 | 56.5 | |||
Red Deck Wins | 237 | 485–376 | 56.3 | 2 | 44 | 18 |
Goblins | 11 | 10–25 | 28.6 | |||
Tokens | 20 | 29–38 | 43.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Selesnya Tokens | 10 | 16–17 | 48.5 | |||
Mono White Tokens | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Mono Green Stompy | 39 | 61–68 | 47.3 | 0 | 1 | |
White Weenie | 155 | 297–255 | 53.8 | 8 | 40 | 6 |
Odric Keywords | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Quest for the Holy Relic | 14 | 10–24 | 29.4 | |||
Soldiers | 70 | 164–119 | 58.0 | 7 | 33 | 2 |
Mono White Humans | 59 | 109–94 | 53.7 | 0 | 5 | 4 |
Elves | 9 | 15–21 | 41.7 | |||
Werewolves | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Selesnya Little Kid | 15 | 24–27 | 47.1 | |||
Selesnya Counters | 7 | 7–12 | 36.8 | |||
Zombies | 13 | 8–31 | 20.5 | |||
Gruul Aggro | 9 | 10–20 | 33.3 | |||
Merfolk | 11 | 14–22 | 38.9 | 1 | ||
Artifact Aggro | 221 | 383–389 | 49.6 | 4 | 34 | 7 |
Affinity | 193 | 340–338 | 50.1 | 4 | 29 | 6 |
Hardened Scales Affinity | 181 | 319–320 | 49.9 | 4 | 28 | 5 |
Tempered Steel | 9 | 17–18 | 48.6 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono Blue Architect | 16 | 23–28 | 45.1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Mono Blue Aggro | 6 | 2–8 | 20.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Illusions | 4 | 1–7 | 12.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Madness | 3 | 1–10 | 9.1 | |||
Golgari Madness | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Rakdos Madness | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Jund Madness | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Voltron | 63 | 91–104 | 46.7 | 1 | 7 | 3 |
Hexproof | 3 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |||
Equipment Aggro | 10 | 9–20 | 31.0 | |||
Hateful Auras | 48 | 74–70 | 51.4 | 1 | 7 | 3 |
Slivers | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
Naya Zoo | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Knights | 7 | 9–13 | 40.9 | |||
AggroSlide | 36 | 63–56 | 52.9 | 1 | 13 | |
Cats | 2 | 7–4 | 63.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Selesnya Cats | 2 | 7–4 | 63.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Rakdos Aggro | 14 | 19–25 | 43.2 | |||
Boros Aggro | 8 | 14–15 | 48.3 | 1 | ||
Humans | 219 | 478–310 | 60.7 | 3 | 36 | 16 |
Selesnya Humans | 5 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
Boros Humans | 106 | 255–143 | 64.1 | 2 | 23 | 9 |
Orzhov Humans | 105 | 213–156 | 57.7 | 1 | 13 | 7 |
Legends Aggro | 79 | 152–130 | 53.9 | 0 | 7 | 5 |
Boros Legends Aggro | 25 | 51–38 | 57.3 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Selesnya Legends Aggro | 4 | 7–10 | 41.2 | |||
Bard Class | 43 | 84–66 | 56.0 | 0 | 6 | 3 |
Permanent Vacation | 42 | 58–59 | 49.6 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Pirates | 67 | 171–110 | 60.9 | 1 | 11 | 3 |
Combo | 952 | 1621–1583 | 50.6 | 13 | 94 | 42 |
Storm | 38 | 35–92 | 27.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Dragonstorm | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Citadel Storm | 22 | 29–50 | 36.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Grixis Tendrils | 3 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
Paradoxical Outcome Storm | 11 | 5–32 | 13.5 | |||
Reanimator | 7 | 3–11 | 21.4 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 5 | 0–9 | 0.0 | |||
Rakdos Reanimator | 2 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 41 | 77–56 | 57.9 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Dubious Challenge | 7 | 15–15 | 50.0 | |||
Warp World | 284 | 651–433 | 60.1 | 9 | 55 | 20 |
Temur Glimpse | 73 | 167–128 | 56.6 | 2 | 16 | 4 |
Boros Glimpse | 204 | 472–292 | 61.8 | 7 | 39 | 16 |
Hypergenesis | 13 | 18–20 | 47.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Splendid Reclamation Combo | 8 | 7–14 | 33.3 | |||
Jeskai Ascendancy | 6 | 9–15 | 37.5 | 1 | ||
Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 6 | 9–15 | 37.5 | 1 | ||
"Twin" | 2 | 1–8 | 11.1 | |||
Metalwork Colossus | 7 | 5–11 | 31.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Anvil Colossus | 3 | 2–4 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Upheaval Colossus | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Seismic Swans | 6 | 4–10 | 28.6 | |||
Eggs | 4 | 4–12 | 25.0 | |||
Blazing Shoal Combo | 14 | 25–30 | 45.5 | 0 | 2 | |
Taking Turns | 10 | 5–11 | 31.3 | |||
Quest for Ula's Temple | 3 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Izzet Ascension | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
Ominous Good | 3 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Soulflayer | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Breakfast | 55 | 91–84 | 52.0 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
Oops All Spells | 54 | 91–79 | 53.5 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
Oops All Lands | 95 | 167–123 | 57.6 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
Dredge | 139 | 196–239 | 45.1 | 1 | 7 | 4 |
Insidious Roots Dredge | 119 | 169–202 | 45.6 | 1 | 7 | 3 |
Polymorph | 8 | 10–16 | 38.5 | 1 | ||
Storm Herald | 11 | 22–20 | 52.4 | |||
Enduring Ideal | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Tibalt's Trickery | 15 | 24–29 | 45.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Intruder Alarm | 7 | 4–14 | 22.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Calibrated Blast | 22 | 38–41 | 48.1 | 2 | ||
Restore Balance | 47 | 89–66 | 57.4 | 1 | 7 | 5 |
Gyruda | 10 | 19–16 | 54.3 | 0 | 2 | |
Belcher | 3 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Possibility Storm | 9 | 9–27 | 25.0 | |||
Midnight Mass | 14 | 23–18 | 56.1 | 1 | ||
Control | 967 | 1578–1553 | 50.4 | 18 | 106 | 39 |
Mono Black Control | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Esper Control | 111 | 203–164 | 55.3 | 1 | 6 | 9 |
Demonic Rising | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Mono Blue Control | 9 | 6–16 | 27.3 | |||
Dimir Control | 31 | 37–66 | 35.9 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Azorius Control | 319 | 622–457 | 57.6 | 13 | 61 | 14 |
Turbo Fog | 57 | 55–65 | 45.8 | 0 | 2 | |
Izzet Control | 50 | 102–83 | 55.1 | 1 | 6 | 4 |
Mardu Control | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Mill | 22 | 14–48 | 22.6 | |||
Boros Control | 28 | 37–41 | 47.4 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Cloudpost Control | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Selesnya Cloudpost Control | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Grixis Control | 38 | 38–70 | 35.2 | 0 | 2 | |
Cruel Control | 21 | 23–42 | 35.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Stax | 30 | 39–54 | 41.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Birthday Stax | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Chandra Nalaar | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Jeskai Control | 15 | 20–25 | 44.4 | 1 | 1 | |
Dragon Control | 7 | 12–16 | 42.9 | 0 | 2 | |
Runeflare | 13 | 15–31 | 32.6 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono White Control | 55 | 89–100 | 47.1 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Cycling Control | 4 | 2–10 | 16.7 | |||
Astral Slide | 4 | 2–10 | 16.7 | |||
Five Color Control | 9 | 17–15 | 53.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Bant Control | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Enchantments Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Seasons Past Control | 22 | 34–42 | 44.7 | |||
Orzhov Control | 101 | 187–156 | 54.5 | 2 | 12 | 6 |
Prison | 22 | 24–44 | 35.3 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Enchantress | 6 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |||
Aggro-Combo | 318 | 597–499 | 54.5 | 4 | 32 | 30 |
Aristocrats | 272 | 546–390 | 58.3 | 4 | 30 | 29 |
Mono Black Aristocrats | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Orzhov Aristocrats | 7 | 8–13 | 38.1 | |||
Food | 8 | 5–11 | 31.3 | |||
Rakdos Aristocrats | 248 | 525–357 | 59.5 | 4 | 30 | 29 |
Boros Bombardment | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Burn | 22 | 24–62 | 27.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Infect | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
Blazing Shoal Infect | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Golgari Infect | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Turbo Myth | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Izzet Blitzkrieg | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
Hushnought | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
Combo Goblins | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Goblin Persist | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
Aggro-Control | 265 | 480–434 | 52.5 | 2 | 17 | 14 |
Simic Flash | 16 | 21–36 | 36.8 | 1 | ||
Izzet Tempo | 47 | 81–74 | 52.3 | 0 | 7 | |
Blue Madness | 5 | 6–12 | 33.3 | |||
Wizards | 3 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Ninjas | 4 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Mono Blue Tempo | 125 | 278–183 | 60.3 | 2 | 9 | 12 |
Mono Blue Librarians | 101 | 225–138 | 62.0 | 1 | 8 | 10 |
Izzet Spells | 16 | 29–24 | 54.7 | |||
Dimir Tempo | 26 | 33–52 | 38.8 | 1 | ||
Dimir Faeries | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Azorius Tempo | 14 | 19–25 | 43.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Combo-Control | 244 | 441–433 | 50.5 | 1 | 15 | 12 |
Curses | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Burning Vengeance | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Battle of Wits | 36 | 59–98 | 37.6 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
Shared Fate | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Sunforger | 14 | 24–37 | 39.3 | |||
Displace Loop | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Familiars | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Curious Niv-Mizzet | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
Solar Flare | 5 | 9–13 | 40.9 | 1 | ||
Plasma Swans | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Mass Land Destruction | 22 | 34–38 | 47.2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Wildfire | 22 | 34–38 | 47.2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Borderpost Wildfire | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | 0 | 1 | |
Resurgent Belief | 9 | 12–19 | 38.7 | |||
Greasefang | 148 | 298–214 | 58.2 | 1 | 10 | 9 |
Esper Greasefang | 35 | 72–54 | 57.1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Orzhov Greasefang | 106 | 218–150 | 59.2 | 1 | 8 | 7 |
Midrange | 1240 | 1947–2226 | 46.7 | 19 | 126 | 38 |
The Rock | 182 | 304–324 | 48.4 | 1 | 16 | 6 |
Grenzo | 10 | 21–14 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Abzan Midrange | 66 | 109–128 | 46.0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Selesnya Midrange | 48 | 71–88 | 44.7 | |||
Jund | 12 | 15–20 | 42.9 | 0 | 2 | |
Blink | 62 | 106–98 | 52.0 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
Graveyard Value | 30 | 20–52 | 27.8 | |||
Enchantments Matter | 11 | 10–22 | 31.3 | |||
Allies | 8 | 5–19 | 20.8 | |||
Azorius Allies | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
-1/-1 Counters | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Fake-Rack | 31 | 11–73 | 13.1 | |||
Mardu Midrange | 7 | 4–12 | 25.0 | |||
Vampires | 11 | 9–26 | 25.7 | |||
Mono Black Vampires | 5 | 8–12 | 40.0 | |||
Orzhov Vampires | 4 | 1–9 | 10.0 | |||
Legends Midrange | 23 | 37–38 | 49.3 | 2 | ||
Boros Legends Midrange | 6 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
Orzhov Legends | 13 | 29–20 | 59.2 | 2 | ||
Selesnya Legends | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Elementals | 10 | 11–22 | 33.3 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 26 | 44–54 | 44.9 | 1 | 3 | |
Naya Midrange | 8 | 14–19 | 42.4 | |||
Big Red | 15 | 20–29 | 40.8 | 0 | 3 | |
Mono Black Midrange | 8 | 2–16 | 11.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Dimir Midrange | 34 | 54–49 | 52.4 | 3 | ||
Angel Tribal | 23 | 31–45 | 40.8 | 0 | 3 | |
Toughness Matters | 11 | 13–24 | 35.1 | |||
Lifegain Midrange | 10 | 18–14 | 56.3 | 2 | ||
Adventures | 3 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
Mutate | 3 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Sultai Midrange | 43 | 64–83 | 43.5 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Fight Rigging | 12 | 22–22 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Orzhov Midrange | 149 | 323–229 | 58.5 | 11 | 42 | 7 |
Jeskai Midrange | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
Heartless Summoning Stompy | 153 | 314–236 | 57.1 | 3 | 37 | 6 |
Zur the Enchanter | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Ordealbreak | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Enigmatic Incarnation | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Fires of Invention | 34 | 55–64 | 46.2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Hero of Precinct One | 19 | 24–39 | 38.1 | |||
Mardu Hero | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Five Color Hero | 6 | 3–12 | 20.0 | |||
Naya Hero | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Boros Hero | 3 | 7–8 | 46.7 | |||
Clerics | 9 | 15–12 | 55.6 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Artifact Midrange | 62 | 72–114 | 38.7 | 0 | 5 | |
Death Cloud | 31 | 56–64 | 46.7 | 1 | ||
Ramp | 343 | 475–642 | 42.5 | 0 | 18 | 7 |
Villainous Wealth | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
Rofellos Ramp | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Cloudpost Ramp | 9 | 10–19 | 34.5 | |||
Greenpost | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Simic Post | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Temurpost | 7 | 8–15 | 34.8 | |||
Selvala Tokens | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Carth Superfriends | 35 | 59–63 | 48.4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Applejacks | 5 | 7–10 | 41.2 | |||
Field Ramp | 224 | 320–410 | 43.8 | 0 | 15 | 3 |
Superfriends | 11 | 9–16 | 36.0 | |||
Unclassified | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 |