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 8 weeks, 5 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56 | 189–70 | 73.0 | 3 | 19 | 12 | 2085 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 48 | 162–58 | 73.6 | 3 | 19 | 10 |
| Mono Black Aggro | 2 | 8–2 | 80.0 | |||
| Heroic | 42 | 146–49 | 74.9 | 3 | 18 | 10 |
| Mono White Heroic | 36 | 134–40 | 77.0 | 3 | 16 | 9 |
| Azorius Heroic | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 5 | 12–8 | 60.0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Mono Green Stompy | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| White Weenie | 3 | 5–5 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Control | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Mono Black Control | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Ponza | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 5 | 15–6 | 71.4 | 2 | ||
| Burn | 5 | 15–6 | 71.4 | 2 | ||
| Midrange | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Cards Played First
- Ardent Recruit
- Armored Ascension
- Army Ants
- Asylum Visitor
- Bonds of Faith
- Built to Last
- Claws of Wirewood
- Coalition Flag
- Consuming Vapors
- Crown of Awe
- Deadeye Tormentor
- Death Spark
- Desert of the Indomitable
- Distortion Strike
- Earnest Fellowship
- Expedition Envoy
- Flashfires
- Gelid Shackles
- Goblin Bushwhacker
- Goblin Chainwhirler
- Goblin Grenade
- Gryff's Boon
- Hanweir Militia Captain
- Hidetsugu's Second Rite
- Isamaru, Hound of Konda
- Jinxed Choker
- Launch the Fleet
- Leonin Sun Standard
- Lupine Prototype
- Magus of the Tabernacle
- Memnite
- Pale Recluse
- Plargg, Dean of Chaos
- Prison Term
- Reckless Bushwhacker
- Repulse
- Rhonas's Monument
- Scalding Tongs
- Sedge Troll
- Seekers' Squire
- Shefet Monitor
- Spirit Bonds
- Steel of the Godhead
- Sunlance
- Sunscorched Desert
- Throne of the God-Pharaoh
- Undying Evil
- Wily Goblin
- Wojek Siren