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.
Decks
Record
# Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
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140 | 253–197 | 56.2 | 11 | 10 | 1758 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
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Aggro | 35 | 78–58 | 57.4 | 0 | 6 | 4 |
White Weenie | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Soldiers | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Knights | 23 | 50–38 | 56.8 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
Humans | 11 | 26–18 | 59.1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Boros Humans | 8 | 19–14 | 57.6 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Orzhov Humans | 3 | 7–4 | 63.6 | 1 | ||
Combo | 10 | 12–15 | 44.4 | 1 | ||
Storm | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Izzet Storm | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
Necrotic Ooze Combo | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
"Twin" | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Ad Nauseam | 6 | 6–10 | 37.5 | |||
Control | 13 | 9–22 | 29.0 | |||
Dimir Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Turbo Fog | 8 | 8–15 | 34.8 | |||
Grixis Control | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Cruel Control | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
Stax | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
Aggro-Combo | 3 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
Trickbind Dreadnought | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
Aggro-Control | 37 | 59–47 | 55.7 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Izzet Tempo | 8 | 11–10 | 52.4 | |||
Ensoul Aggro-Control | 22 | 41–23 | 64.1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Azorius Tempo | 7 | 7–14 | 33.3 | |||
Combo-Control | 35 | 84–45 | 65.1 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
Mass Land Destruction | 22 | 55–25 | 68.8 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Jokulhaups Control | 22 | 55–25 | 68.8 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Jeskai Jokulhaups Control | 5 | 12–9 | 57.1 | |||
Temur Jokulhaups Control | 16 | 39–15 | 72.2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Greasefang | 13 | 29–20 | 59.2 | 0 | 1 | |
Midrange | 7 | 8–6 | 57.1 | 0 | 1 | |
Allies | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Azorius Allies | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
Orzhov Midrange | 4 | 4–4 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
Clerics | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 |