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, 3 days.
Play a league or tournament match.
Play in the league.
Person | Entries | |
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carmandor | 223 | |
murpady | 205 | |
wizzardofoz | 191 | |
jenkin5630 | 183 | |
gladiusintelis | 137 |
Play in an official Penny Dreadful tournament on gatherling.com
Person | Tournaments | |
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murpady | 52 | |
j_meka | 47 | |
shadowater0 | 44 | |
arcoverde | 43 | |
jaycearveduin | 37 |
Play the whole season without retiring an unfinished league run.
Have someone else register an exact copy of a deck you registered first.
Person | Decks | |
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murpady | 29 | |
gladiusintelis | 22 | |
bakert99 | 16 | |
carmandor | 15 | |
jenkin5630 | 14 |
Finish five-match league runs with three or more different archetypes in a single season.
Complete a 5–0 run in the league.
Person | Runs | |
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carmandor | 37 | |
murpady | 22 | |
placebo | 20 | |
_sunga_ | 20 | |
gladiusintelis | 14 |
Beat a player that's 4–0 in the league.
Person | Crushes | |
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carmandor | 9 | |
murpady | 5 | |
xqby | 5 | |
_sunga_ | 5 | |
jenkin5630 | 4 | |
madman_quail | 4 | |
placebo | 4 | |
ninstitute | 4 |
Win a tournament.
Person | Victories | |
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j_meka | 3 | |
-diamonddust- | 3 | |
murpady | 3 | |
duckoforegon | 3 | |
thyshuffler | 3 | |
shadowater0 | 3 | |
depressedduck | 3 | |
kalibak | 3 |
Reach the elimination rounds of a tournament playing the same archetype three or more times in a single season.
Beat a player in the knockout rounds of a tournament after losing to them in the Swiss.
Person | defeats avenged | |
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j_meka | 3 | |
murpady | 3 | |
_sunga_ | 3 | |
bakert99 | 2 | |
cody_ | 2 | |
fadetoblack1183 | 2 | |
nydethess | 2 | |
byvci | 2 | |
thyshuffler | 2 | |
arcoverde | 2 | |
gladiusintelis | 2 | |
kalibak | 2 |
Complete a 5–0 run in the league without losing a game.
Person | Runs | |
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placebo | 3 | |
bakert99 | 2 | |
eternalparadox38 | 2 | |
carmandor | 2 | |
ozizi | 2 |
Reach the elimination rounds of a tournament playing three or more different archetypes in a single season.
Have one of your decks recognised as the first of a new archetype.
Person | Archetypes | |
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wizzerinus | 2 | |
trevor3693 | 1 | |
back_alley_g | 1 | |
honorbound84 | 1 | |
lvg87 | 1 | |
mptn | 1 | |
bailite | 1 | |
xigotdeadx | 1 | |
flac0 | 1 | |
masunob | 1 | |
greenty | 1 | |
murpady | 1 |
Beat a player in the knockout rounds of a tournament after losing to them in the knockout rounds of an earlier tournament in the same season.
Person | grudges repaid | |
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shadowater0 | 7 | |
thyshuffler | 5 | |
j_meka | 2 | |
bakert99 | 2 | |
briar_moss | 2 | |
cody_ | 2 | |
nydethess | 2 | |
murpady | 2 |
Run a tournament for the Penny Dreadful community.
Top 8 the Penny Dreadful 500.
Win the Penny Dreadful 500.
Key
- 🏅 = earned