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.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 23–42 | 35.4 | 1 | 1431 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Combo | 8 | 7–15 | 31.8 | |||
| Reanimator | 4 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
| Recurring Nightmare | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Fake-Twin | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
| Retraction Helix Combo | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
| Control | 11 | 16–17 | 48.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Boros Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Cloudpost Control | 6 | 16–8 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
| Azorius Cloudpost Control | 5 | 15–7 | 68.2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Stax | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Prison | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Enchantress | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 5 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
| Mass Land Destruction | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Jokulhaups Control | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Grixis Jokulhaups Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mardu Jokulhaups Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Midrange | 3 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Rakdos Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Big Red | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Argivian Phalanx
- Barrow Naughty
- Beaming Defiance
- Blade Sliver
- Feast of Sanity
- Fleshtaker
- Fury of the Horde
- Grey Host Reinforcements
- Hall of Tagsin
- Hateflayer
- Hooded Hydra
- Mind's Dilation
- Nahiri's Resolve
- Overwhelmed Archivist
- Picklock Prankster
- Rotisserie Elemental
- Seize the Storm
- Spell Stutter
- Spellrune Painter
- Stolen Vitality
- Vault Robber
- Venser, the Sojourner
- Voldaren Ambusher