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, 4 days.
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Leaderboard
Archetypes
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | 5–0s |
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Midrange | 43 | 43–77 | 35.8 | |
Abzan Midrange | 61 | 92–95 | 49.2 | 3 |
Artifact Midrange | 51 | 73–82 | 47.1 | 5 |
Fires of Invention | 44 | 68–62 | 52.3 | 2 |
Blink | 31 | 61–29 | 67.8 | 5 |
Orzhov Blink | 114 | 300–121 | 71.3 | 21 |
Death Cloud | 31 | 44–57 | 43.6 | 1 |
Orzhov Midrange | 30 | 41–54 | 43.2 | 1 |
Big Red | 24 | 52–34 | 60.5 | 1 |
The Rock | 20 | 27–35 | 43.5 | |
Golgari Citadel | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |
Graveyard Value | 18 | 14–39 | 26.4 | 1 |
Toughness Matters | 14 | 19–29 | 39.6 | |
Selesnya Midrange | 11 | 6–14 | 30.0 | |
Temur Ascendancy | 10 | 9–16 | 36.0 | |
Elementals | 8 | 9–16 | 36.0 | |
Dimir Midrange | 7 | 9–10 | 47.4 | |
Legends Midrange | 7 | 11–15 | 42.3 | |
Orzhov Legends | 12 | 16–19 | 45.7 | |
Selesnya Legends | 7 | 10–9 | 52.6 | |
Mardu Legends | 3 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
Boros Legends Midrange | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
Naya Midrange | 7 | 11–9 | 55.0 | |
Sultai Midrange | 7 | 6–10 | 37.5 | |
Enchantments Matter | 6 | 6–10 | 37.5 | |
Jeskai Midrange | 6 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |
Grenzo | 5 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |
Jund | 5 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |
Rakdos Midrange | 5 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |
Heartless Summoning Stompy | 4 | 7–5 | 58.3 | |
Mardu Midrange | 4 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |
Allies | 3 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |
Esper Allies | 3 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |
Orzhov Allies | 2 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |
Adventures | 2 | 6–3 | 66.7 | |
Fake-Rack | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
Lifegain Midrange | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |
Mythic Colossification | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
Zur the Enchanter | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |
Anti-Persecution | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
Clerics | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
Mono Black Midrange | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
Necro Midrange | 64 | 98–72 | 57.6 | 5 |
Citadel Storm | 39 | 65–72 | 47.4 | 1 |
Aggro-Control | 36 | 59–45 | 56.7 | 1 |
Izzet Spells | 36 | 46–52 | 46.9 | 1 |
Ninjas | 11 | 14–10 | 58.3 | 1 |
Mono Blue Tempo | 8 | 6–9 | 40.0 | |
Izzet Tempo | 6 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
Azorius Tempo | 3 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |
Wizards | 3 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
Sultai Tempo | 2 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
Dimir Tempo | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
Dimir Faeries | 20 | 34–30 | 53.1 | 1 |
Ramp | 24 | 26–38 | 40.6 | |
Domain | 5 | 6–13 | 31.6 | |
Carth Superfriends | 4 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |
Applejacks | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |
Defenders | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
Combo | 21 | 9–42 | 17.6 | |
Midnight Mass | 80 | 155–89 | 63.5 | 15 |
Blazing Shoal Combo | 41 | 60–70 | 46.2 | 1 |
Restore Balance | 38 | 41–65 | 38.7 | 1 |
Hypergenesis | 20 | 31–32 | 49.2 | 2 |
Necro Combo | 16 | 23–21 | 52.3 | 1 |
Metalwork Colossus | 15 | 25–20 | 55.6 | |
Anvil Colossus | 10 | 16–9 | 64.0 | |
Tibalt's Trickery | 9 | 10–15 | 40.0 | |
Gyruda | 8 | 15–16 | 48.4 | |
Warp World | 8 | 7–14 | 33.3 | |
Belcher | 6 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |
Izzet Ascension | 6 | 2–9 | 18.2 | |
Maniac Combo | 6 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |
Soulflayer | 6 | 16–7 | 69.6 | |
Reanim8 Rack | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
Enduring Ideal | 5 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |
Calibrated Blast | 4 | 6–2 | 75.0 | 1 |
Seismic Swans | 4 | 2–9 | 18.2 | |
Storm Herald | 4 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |
Eggs | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
New Perspectives | 3 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |
Chain of Acid | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
Mono Green Stormless Storm | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
Polymorph | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
Possibility Storm | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
Dice Factory | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
Dredge | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
Dubious Challenge | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
Equipment Aggro | 16 | 35–25 | 58.3 | 1 |
Food | 16 | 19–31 | 38.0 | |
Aggro | 14 | 18–21 | 46.2 | |
Red Deck Wins | 60 | 77–80 | 49.0 | 5 |
White Weenie | 37 | 56–48 | 53.8 | 2 |
Soldiers | 4 | 12–7 | 63.2 | |
Kithkin | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
Goblins | 29 | 49–37 | 57.0 | 1 |
Knights | 21 | 35–27 | 56.5 | 3 |
Mono Green Stompy | 19 | 25–34 | 42.4 | |
Gruul Aggro | 16 | 20–25 | 44.4 | |
Elves | 14 | 13–25 | 34.2 | 1 |
Mono Red Eldrazi | 14 | 39–21 | 65.0 | |
AggroSlide | 12 | 13–19 | 40.6 | 1 |
Zombies | 11 | 10–19 | 34.5 | |
Artifact Aggro | 10 | 17–18 | 48.6 | 1 |
Affinity | 14 | 9–17 | 34.6 | |
Mono Blue Architect | 8 | 20–10 | 66.7 | 1 |
Tempered Steel | 8 | 8–14 | 36.4 | |
Rakdos Aggro | 9 | 11–13 | 45.8 | |
Rats | 8 | 7–17 | 29.2 | |
Pirates | 7 | 12–17 | 41.4 | |
Mono Black Aggro | 6 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
Legends Aggro | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |
Boros Legends Aggro | 50 | 103–78 | 56.9 | 4 |
Selesnya Legends Aggro | 4 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |
Tokens | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
Selesnya Tokens | 4 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |
Mono White Tokens | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
Humans | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
Boros Humans | 2 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
Selesnya Humans | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
Merfolk | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
Mono Red Swarm | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
Boros Heroic | 11 | 24–11 | 68.6 | 2 |
Mono Black Vampires | 11 | 7–22 | 24.1 | |
Astral Slide | 5 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |
Burn | 5 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |
Necro Burn | 33 | 37–63 | 37.0 | |
Combo-Control | 5 | 10–8 | 55.6 | |
Hive Mind | 31 | 47–44 | 51.6 | 1 |
Resurgent Belief | 23 | 30–42 | 41.7 | 1 |
Curses | 12 | 20–17 | 54.1 | |
Battle of Wits | 9 | 13–17 | 43.3 | |
Plasma Swans | 8 | 16–8 | 66.7 | 2 |
Hedron Alignment | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
Liliana's Contract | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
Control | 5 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |
Esper Control | 89 | 160–123 | 56.5 | 10 |
Seasons Past Control | 49 | 115–91 | 55.8 | 3 |
Dimir Control | 38 | 71–53 | 57.3 | 1 |
Azorius Control | 26 | 46–36 | 56.1 | 1 |
Ponza | 25 | 44–32 | 57.9 | 2 |
Dragon Control | 21 | 38–33 | 53.5 | 1 |
Stax | 13 | 18–17 | 51.4 | 1 |
Grixis Control | 11 | 7–22 | 24.1 | |
Cruel Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
Orzhov Control | 8 | 8–11 | 42.1 | |
Sultai Control | 6 | 10–12 | 45.5 | |
Prison | 5 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |
Enchantress | 47 | 79–62 | 56.0 | 4 |
Turbo Fog | 5 | 3–10 | 23.1 | |
Bant Control | 4 | 3–13 | 18.8 | |
Mill | 4 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |
Mono White Control | 4 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |
Life is Ez | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
Five Color Control | 3 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |
Five Color Collected Conjuring | 5 | 10–7 | 58.8 | 1 |
Last Stand Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
Mardu Control | 3 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |
Enchantments Control | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
Boros Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
Mono Blue Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
Selesnya Cats | 4 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
Traditional Reanimator | 4 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |
Grixis Reanimator | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
Wildfire | 4 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |
Borderpost Wildfire | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
Rakdos Aristocrats | 3 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
Boros Hero | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |
Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
Hateful Auras | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |
Illusions | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |
Orzhov Aristocrats | 2 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |
Wild Pair | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |
Abzan Aristocrats | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
Enigmatic Incarnation | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
Goblin Persist | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
Golgari Aristocrats | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
Izzet Blitzkrieg | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |
Mardu Aristocrats | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
Mono Black Aristocrats | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |
Naya Hero | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 |