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, 6 days.
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 1065 | 1900–1777 | 51.7 | 27 | 261 | 34 |
Mono Black Aggro | 129 | 289–200 | 59.1 | 5 | 41 | 6 |
Heroic | 61 | 113–100 | 53.1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Mono White Heroic | 26 | 53–39 | 57.6 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 29 | 50–52 | 49.0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Boros Heroic | 2 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |||
Selesnya Heroic | 3 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
Red Deck Wins | 319 | 634–523 | 54.8 | 12 | 115 | 13 |
Mono Red Devotion | 4 | 14–9 | 60.9 | 0 | 3 | |
Proliferate Red | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |||
Goblins | 29 | 36–65 | 35.6 | |||
Tokens | 28 | 22–38 | 36.7 | 0 | 2 | |
Selesnya Tokens | 28 | 22–38 | 36.7 | 0 | 2 | |
Mono Green Stompy | 4 | 5–9 | 35.7 | 0 | 1 | |
White Weenie | 143 | 260–243 | 51.7 | 1 | 22 | 5 |
Odric Keywords | 9 | 5–13 | 27.8 | |||
Quest for the Holy Relic | 9 | 13–5 | 72.2 | |||
Soldiers | 20 | 27–47 | 36.5 | |||
Kithkin | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Elves | 67 | 85–141 | 37.6 | 0 | 9 | 2 |
Werewolves | 7 | 21–10 | 67.7 | |||
Minotaurs | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Warriors | 1 | |||||
Selesnya Little Kid | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Rogues | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Zombies | 43 | 98–68 | 59.0 | 3 | 19 | 1 |
Mono Red Swarm | 13 | 16–18 | 47.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Artifact Aggro | 147 | 252–233 | 52.0 | 6 | 42 | 4 |
Affinity | 16 | 21–34 | 38.2 | |||
Salvage Titan | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
Tempered Steel | 126 | 222–191 | 53.8 | 6 | 42 | 4 |
Mono Blue Architect | 3 | 8–3 | 72.7 | |||
Devoid Aggro | 2 | |||||
Mono Blue Aggro | 6 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |||
Illusions | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Voltron | 4 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Equipment Aggro | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Slivers | 11 | 5–14 | 26.3 | |||
Naya Zoo | 1 | |||||
Knights | 4 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |||
Cats | 12 | 21–18 | 53.8 | 0 | 4 | |
Mono White Cats | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Selesnya Cats | 10 | 20–17 | 54.1 | 0 | 3 | |
Rakdos Aggro | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Humans | 8 | 15–14 | 51.7 | 0 | 2 | |
Gruul Humans | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Selesnya Humans | 7 | 15–11 | 57.7 | 0 | 1 | |
Combo | 454 | 618–773 | 44.4 | 5 | 57 | 16 |
Storm | 69 | 43–139 | 23.6 | 0 | 2 | |
Hazoret Storm | 5 | 0–9 | 0.0 | |||
Simic Storm | 10 | 11–23 | 32.4 | |||
Stormpost | 10 | 5–22 | 18.5 | |||
Mono Blue Post Desire | 10 | 5–22 | 18.5 | |||
Izzet Storm | 8 | 4–16 | 20.0 | |||
Channel Storm | 12 | 12–28 | 30.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Reanimator | 6 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |||
Traditional Reanimator | 6 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |||
Biovisionary | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Dubious Challenge | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Maniac Combo | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Hypergenesis | 85 | 120–149 | 44.6 | 1 | 15 | 1 |
Myr Incubator | 9 | 8–15 | 34.8 | 0 | 1 | |
Combo Post | 6 | 4–14 | 22.2 | |||
Eggs | 76 | 116–127 | 47.7 | 3 | 20 | 4 |
Saffi Combo | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Quest for Ula's Temple | 10 | 15–23 | 39.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Breakfast | 123 | 223–184 | 54.8 | 0 | 12 | 9 |
Cephalid Breakfast | 123 | 223–184 | 54.8 | 0 | 12 | 9 |
Druid Cephalid Breakfast | 116 | 222–173 | 56.2 | 0 | 12 | 9 |
Oops All Lands | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | 0 | 2 | |
Polymorph | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Control | 432 | 624–764 | 45.0 | 4 | 49 | 14 |
Mono Black Control | 3 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Esper Control | 78 | 119–150 | 44.2 | 2 | 11 | 2 |
Demonic Rising | 30 | 57–52 | 52.3 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
Mono Blue Control | 11 | 2–18 | 10.0 | |||
Dimir Control | 25 | 39–32 | 54.9 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Azorius Control | 30 | 46–33 | 58.2 | 0 | 3 | |
Turbo Fog | 28 | 43–53 | 44.8 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
Izzet Control | 7 | 14–12 | 53.8 | 1 | ||
Mardu Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Mill | 9 | 5–19 | 20.8 | |||
Boros Control | 4 | 8–10 | 44.4 | |||
Cloudpost Control | 50 | 86–88 | 49.4 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Azorius Cloudpost Control | 15 | 26–18 | 59.1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Blackpost | 2 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 26 | 49–47 | 51.0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Dimir Cloudpost Control | 4 | 8–8 | 50.0 | |||
Mono White Cloudpost Control | 2 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
Grixis Control | 8 | 3–11 | 21.4 | |||
Cruel Control | 7 | 3–10 | 23.1 | |||
Stax | 50 | 82–112 | 42.3 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Pollute the Planet | 7 | 25–11 | 69.4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Jeskai Control | 23 | 34–38 | 47.2 | 0 | 5 | |
Dragon Control | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Runeflare | 7 | 2–10 | 16.7 | |||
Ponza | 3 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
Mono White Control | 16 | 34–29 | 54.0 | 1 | ||
Life is Ez | 12 | 28–23 | 54.9 | 1 | ||
Cycling Control | 12 | 6–21 | 22.2 | |||
Astral Slide | 10 | 5–19 | 20.8 | |||
Five Color Control | 23 | 35–35 | 50.0 | 1 | 10 | 1 |
Sultai Control | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Guildgate Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Bant Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Four Color Counter Ghazi | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Orzhov Control | 3 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Aggro-Combo | 124 | 185–243 | 43.2 | 4 | 21 | 1 |
Aristocrats | 45 | 93–93 | 50.0 | 3 | 13 | 1 |
Mono Black Aristocrats | 31 | 72–64 | 52.9 | 3 | 11 | |
Orzhov Aristocrats | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Abzan Aristocrats | 5 | 9–14 | 39.1 | 0 | 2 | |
Food | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Burn | 10 | 5–21 | 19.2 | |||
Infect | 26 | 22–55 | 28.6 | 0 | 2 | |
Golgari Infect | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Pummeler | 8 | 17–18 | 48.6 | |||
Hermit Humans | 26 | 42–39 | 51.9 | 1 | 6 | |
Combo Goblins | 5 | 5–8 | 38.5 | |||
Goblin Persist | 5 | 5–8 | 38.5 | |||
Aggro-Control | 335 | 535–615 | 46.5 | 2 | 25 | 16 |
Izzet Tempo | 28 | 47–58 | 44.8 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
Blue Madness | 74 | 99–122 | 44.8 | 3 | ||
Simic Madness | 73 | 99–120 | 45.2 | 3 | ||
Wizards | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
12 Pest | 4 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |||
Ninjas | 43 | 70–77 | 47.6 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Mono Blue Gush | 83 | 149–150 | 49.8 | 1 | 9 | 6 |
Izzet Spells | 66 | 119–122 | 49.4 | 1 | 9 | 3 |
Combo-Control | 36 | 32–86 | 27.1 | 0 | 2 | |
Cruel Combo-Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Battle of Wits | 7 | 8–22 | 26.7 | |||
Pickles | 4 | 1–7 | 12.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Displace Loop | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Familiars | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Curious Niv-Mizzet | 3 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
Mass Land Destruction | 3 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Wildfire | 3 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
Midrange | 574 | 778–1021 | 43.2 | 6 | 40 | 18 |
Temur Ascendancy | 12 | 5–29 | 14.7 | |||
Prophet Ascendancy | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
The Rock | 4 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |||
Abzan Midrange | 4 | 8–5 | 61.5 | 1 | ||
Jund | 22 | 31–39 | 44.3 | |||
Blink | 116 | 239–169 | 58.6 | 3 | 5 | 9 |
Wave Blink | 101 | 235–148 | 61.4 | 3 | 5 | 9 |
Cloudpost Wave Blink | 9 | 8–11 | 42.1 | |||
Azorius Wave | 87 | 219–130 | 62.8 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
Acid Trip | 3 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Anti-Persecution | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
Graveyard Value | 44 | 55–77 | 41.7 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Enchantments Matter | 4 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
Allies | 42 | 69–83 | 45.4 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Orzhov Allies | 27 | 34–54 | 38.6 | 1 | ||
Mardu Allies | 6 | 16–12 | 57.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Boros Allies | 3 | 6–5 | 54.5 | |||
Mono White Allies | 3 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
BRGW Allies | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
Treefolk | 12 | 20–17 | 54.1 | |||
Fake-Rack | 10 | 14–24 | 36.8 | |||
Mardu Midrange | 7 | 18–11 | 62.1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
White Jund | 2 | 6–3 | 66.7 | 1 | ||
Vampires | 13 | 17–23 | 42.5 | 0 | 1 | |
Mono Black Vampires | 5 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Rakdos Vampires | 7 | 13–17 | 43.3 | 0 | 1 | |
Elementals | 2 | 0–9 | 0.0 | |||
Rakdos Midrange | 8 | 10–15 | 40.0 | 0 | 2 | |
Big Red | 3 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
Mono Black Midrange | 80 | 135–140 | 49.1 | 3 | 24 | 1 |
Hellion Whip | 1 | |||||
Dimir Midrange | 19 | 28–34 | 45.2 | 2 | ||
Temur Energy | 10 | 22–16 | 57.9 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Angels | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Mono White Angels | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
Toughness Matters | 61 | 29–107 | 21.3 | |||
Lifegain Midrange | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Sultai Midrange | 11 | 7–19 | 26.9 | |||
Sultai Emerge | 5 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
Orzhov Midrange | 13 | 15–28 | 34.9 | 0 | 1 | |
Jeskai Midrange | 3 | 2–10 | 16.7 | |||
Zur the Enchanter | 1 | |||||
Ordealbreak | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
Clerics | 3 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
Artifact Midrange | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
Coinflips | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
Ramp | 656 | 1591–956 | 62.5 | 31 | 172 | 60 |
Rofellos Ramp | 630 | 1552–906 | 63.1 | 31 | 171 | 60 |
Channel-Rofellos | 611 | 1530–877 | 63.6 | 31 | 171 | 60 |
Cloudpost Ramp | 19 | 37–37 | 50.0 | |||
Greenpost | 3 | 6–5 | 54.5 | |||
Unclassified | 22 | 12–40 | 23.1 | |||
Commander | 5 |