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, 5 days.
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Leaderboard
Archetypes
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oops All Spells | 109 | 269–134 | 66.7 | 14 |
| Midrange | 39 | 49–80 | 38.0 | 3 |
| Orzhov Midrange | 56 | 83–86 | 49.1 | 3 |
| Orzhov Capenna | 7 | 10–6 | 62.5 | 1 |
| Artifact Midrange | 33 | 75–46 | 62.0 | 6 |
| Abzan Midrange | 26 | 29–48 | 37.7 | |
| Mardu Midrange | 20 | 33–31 | 51.6 | 1 |
| Rakdos Midrange | 20 | 23–36 | 39.0 | 1 |
| Blink | 19 | 23–27 | 46.0 | 1 |
| Orzhov Blink | 20 | 34–27 | 55.7 | 3 |
| Coinflips | 16 | 2–23 | 8.0 | |
| Fake-Rack | 14 | 20–29 | 40.8 | |
| Graveyard Value | 13 | 16–21 | 43.2 | |
| Big Red | 11 | 10–19 | 34.5 | |
| Dimir Midrange | 10 | 5–18 | 21.7 | |
| Death Cloud | 9 | 11–24 | 31.4 | |
| Hero of Precinct One | 8 | 12–8 | 60.0 | 1 |
| Mardu Hero | 22 | 38–19 | 66.7 | 1 |
| Five Color Hero | 7 | 6–10 | 37.5 | |
| Boros Hero | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Naya Hero | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Orzhov Hero | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Jund | 8 | 8–20 | 28.6 | |
| Naya Midrange | 8 | 7–23 | 23.3 | |
| Enchantments Matter | 7 | 9–13 | 40.9 | |
| Grenzo | 4 | 7–6 | 53.8 | |
| Party | 4 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |
| Selesnya Midrange | 4 | 1–10 | 9.1 | |
| Lifegain Midrange | 3 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |
| Martyr's Grace | 26 | 45–35 | 56.3 | 3 |
| Mythic Colossification | 3 | 6–4 | 60.0 | 1 |
| The Rock | 3 | 7–2 | 77.8 | |
| Golgari Citadel | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Clerics | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Heartless Summoning Stompy | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Jeskai Midrange | 2 | 5–2 | 71.4 | |
| Mono Black Midrange | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Mono Black Devotion | 3 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |
| Allies | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Azorius Allies | 6 | 10–10 | 50.0 | 1 |
| Orzhov Allies | 3 | 11–4 | 73.3 | 1 |
| Anti-Persecution | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Illness in the Ranks | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Mono White Heroic | 32 | 69–42 | 62.2 | 3 |
| Jokulhaups Control | 28 | 56–39 | 58.9 | 2 |
| Mardu Jokulhaups Control | 46 | 75–59 | 56.0 | 5 |
| Grixis Jokulhaups Control | 41 | 79–51 | 60.8 | 3 |
| Temur Jokulhaups Control | 35 | 75–48 | 61.0 | 1 |
| Jeskai Jokulhaups Control | 21 | 37–19 | 66.1 | 4 |
| Jund Jokulhaups Control | 6 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |
| WUBR Jokulhaups Control | 4 | 7–12 | 36.8 | |
| Ramp | 25 | 30–45 | 40.0 | 1 |
| Summer Bloom Ramp | 6 | 5–11 | 31.3 | |
| Applejacks | 5 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |
| Defenders | 3 | 4–11 | 26.7 | |
| Cloudpost Ramp | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Greenpost | 19 | 37–36 | 50.7 | |
| Gruul Post | 6 | 14–8 | 63.6 | |
| Simic Post | 5 | 14–9 | 60.9 | |
| Golgari Post | 4 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |
| Arcum's Not Astrolabe | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Domain | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Astral Slide | 23 | 32–31 | 50.8 | 1 |
| Rakdos Madness | 14 | 28–21 | 57.1 | 2 |
| Boros Heroic | 13 | 23–15 | 60.5 | 2 |
| Aggro-Control | 11 | 18–21 | 46.2 | |
| Mono Blue Tempo | 28 | 55–28 | 66.3 | 3 |
| Mono Blue Librarians | 5 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |
| Mono Blue Faeries | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Izzet Tempo | 14 | 22–21 | 51.2 | |
| Izzet Spells | 10 | 22–16 | 57.9 | |
| Ninjas | 10 | 12–16 | 42.9 | |
| Dimir Tempo | 7 | 10–13 | 43.5 | |
| Blue Madness | 6 | 16–9 | 64.0 | |
| Simic Madness | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Ensoul Aggro-Control | 6 | 13–10 | 56.5 | |
| Sultai Tempo | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Wizards | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Combo-Control | 9 | 9–17 | 34.6 | |
| Mindcrank | 32 | 52–42 | 55.3 | 5 |
| Curses | 23 | 59–37 | 61.5 | 2 |
| Battle of Wits | 11 | 13–31 | 29.5 | |
| Resurgent Belief | 7 | 8–14 | 36.4 | |
| Plasma Swans | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |
| Cruel Combo-Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Hive Mind | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Pickles | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Shared Fate | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Zur's Weirding | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Jeskai Jeskai Ascendancy | 9 | 18–24 | 42.9 | |
| Combo | 8 | 3–12 | 20.0 | |
| Hypergenesis | 20 | 31–39 | 44.3 | 1 |
| Chain of Acid | 10 | 12–16 | 42.9 | |
| Ad Nauseam | 9 | 16–14 | 53.3 | |
| Storm | 9 | 10–15 | 40.0 | |
| Dimir Tendrils | 83 | 133–143 | 48.2 | 2 |
| Dark Tide | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Izzet Storm | 39 | 59–67 | 46.8 | 2 |
| Grixis Tendrils | 17 | 24–35 | 40.7 | |
| Song Storm | 10 | 13–11 | 54.2 | |
| Hazoret Storm | 9 | 12–12 | 50.0 | |
| Simic Storm | 9 | 19–9 | 67.9 | 2 |
| Citadel Storm | 6 | 8–16 | 33.3 | |
| Paradoxical Outcome Storm | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Polymorph | 7 | 9–18 | 33.3 | |
| Blazing Shoal Combo | 6 | 9–9 | 50.0 | 1 |
| Izzet Ascension | 6 | 6–14 | 30.0 | |
| Belcher | 4 | 10–7 | 58.8 | |
| Gyruda | 4 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |
| Intruder Alarm | 4 | 4–10 | 28.6 | |
| Restore Balance | 4 | 9–7 | 56.3 | |
| Reanimator | 3 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |
| Recurring Nightmare | 51 | 97–79 | 55.1 | 2 |
| Dragon Nightmare | 3 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |
| Dimir Cycling Reanimator | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Traditional Reanimator | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Dimir Reanimator | 4 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
| Mono Black Reanimator | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Soulflayer | 3 | 6–6 | 50.0 | |
| Calibrated Blast | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
| Dice Factory | 2 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |
| Dubious Challenge | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |
| Fake-Twin | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |
| Naya Fake-Twin | 3 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |
| Metalwork Colossus | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Anvil Colossus | 11 | 19–16 | 54.3 | |
| Upheaval Colossus | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Retraction Helix Combo | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |
| Warp World | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
| Four Color Glimpse | 14 | 18–25 | 41.9 | |
| Actual Warp World | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Combo Post | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Enduring Ideal | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
| Necrotic Ooze Combo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Oops All Lands | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |
| Seismic Swans | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Storm Herald | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Dirty Kitty | 6 | 9–8 | 52.9 | 1 |
| Aggro | 4 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |
| Elves | 42 | 72–71 | 50.3 | 1 |
| Red Deck Wins | 38 | 82–43 | 65.6 | 3 |
| White Weenie | 30 | 61–43 | 58.7 | 2 |
| Chroma White | 3 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |
| Quest for the Holy Relic | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
| Soldiers | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Mono Black Aggro | 28 | 51–46 | 52.6 | |
| Merfolk | 13 | 6–16 | 27.3 | |
| Mono Green Stompy | 12 | 16–18 | 47.1 | |
| Boros Aggro | 11 | 16–13 | 55.2 | |
| Knights | 7 | 15–10 | 60.0 | |
| Slivers | 7 | 15–10 | 60.0 | |
| Goblins | 5 | 5–13 | 27.8 | |
| Rogues | 5 | 12–8 | 60.0 | |
| AggroSlide | 4 | 7–4 | 63.6 | |
| Rakdos Aggro | 4 | 9–9 | 50.0 | |
| Rats | 4 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |
| Zombies | 4 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |
| Gruul Aggro | 3 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Selesnya Little Kid | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Tokens | 3 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |
| Mono White Tokens | 10 | 16–11 | 59.3 | |
| Orzhov Tokens | 3 | 10–5 | 66.7 | |
| Selesnya Tokens | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Humans | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Voltron | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Hexproof | 10 | 18–19 | 48.6 | |
| Equipment Aggro | 3 | 2–9 | 18.2 | |
| Artifact Aggro | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Affinity | 36 | 47–58 | 44.8 | |
| Hush-finity | 15 | 24–27 | 47.1 | 1 |
| Tempered Steel | 15 | 32–26 | 55.2 | |
| Mono Blue Architect | 6 | 11–10 | 52.4 | |
| Cats | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Mono Red Swarm | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Shamans | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Familiars | 4 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |
| Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 4 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |
| Wildfire | 4 | 7–7 | 50.0 | |
| Borderpost Wildfire | 6 | 8–8 | 50.0 | |
| Aggro-Combo | 3 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |
| Burn | 24 | 36–47 | 43.4 | 1 |
| Hushnought | 17 | 27–27 | 50.0 | 1 |
| Trickbind Dreadnought | 15 | 25–18 | 58.1 | |
| Mono Blue Dreadnought | 46 | 106–63 | 62.7 | 5 |
| Izzet Dreadnought | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Infect | 9 | 7–11 | 38.9 | |
| Simic Infect | 63 | 111–97 | 53.4 | 3 |
| Blazing Shoal Infect | 15 | 19–31 | 38.0 | |
| Golgari Infect | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
| Liquimetal Fishing | 3 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |
| Aristocrats | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 9 | 14–15 | 48.3 | 1 |
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 8 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |
| Rakdos Aristocrats | 6 | 8–11 | 42.1 | |
| Abzan Aristocrats | 4 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |
| Mardu Aristocrats | 3 | 7–5 | 58.3 | |
| Boros Bombardment | 2 | 8–2 | 80.0 | |
| Golgari Aristocrats | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |
| Mono Black Vampires | 3 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |
| Unctus | 3 | 7–8 | 46.7 | |
| Fight Rigging | 2 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
| Illusions | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Jund Carth | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Azorius Heroic | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Azorius Control | 120 | 159–158 | 50.2 | 6 |
| Cawblade | 4 | 8–7 | 53.3 | 1 |
| Ponza | 41 | 37–74 | 33.3 | 1 |
| Stax | 24 | 26–42 | 38.2 | |
| Dimir Control | 22 | 36–42 | 46.2 | 1 |
| Pox | 15 | 17–26 | 39.5 | |
| Esper Control | 12 | 22–27 | 44.9 | |
| Runeflare | 11 | 6–19 | 24.0 | |
| Grixis Control | 9 | 18–21 | 46.2 | |
| Cruel Control | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |
| Izzet Control | 9 | 8–11 | 42.1 | |
| Boros Control | 8 | 12–15 | 44.4 | |
| Bant Control | 6 | 9–7 | 56.3 | |
| Enchantments Control | 6 | 13–5 | 72.2 | |
| Five Color Control | 4 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |
| Five Color Collected Conjuring | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Last Stand Control | 1 | 3–0 | 100.0 | |
| Mono Blue Control | 4 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |
| Mono White Control | 4 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |
| Life is Ez | 21 | 18–19 | 48.6 | 1 |
| Guildgate Control | 3 | 3–12 | 20.0 | |
| Mill | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |
| Prison | 3 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |
| Enchantress | 15 | 27–25 | 51.9 | |
| Seasons Past Control | 3 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |
| Turbo Fog | 3 | 2–9 | 18.2 | |
| Cloudpost Control | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |
| Mono White Cloudpost Control | 15 | 13–27 | 32.5 | |
| Azorius Cloudpost Control | 7 | 16–12 | 57.1 | |
| Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 6 | 12–12 | 50.0 | |
| Blackpost | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Orzhov Control | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
| Jeskai Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Enigmatic Incarnation | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Orzhov Legends | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 |