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.
-
How do I get started with Magic Online?
Check out the guide to Magic Online.
-
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.
-
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
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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, 6 days.
Decks
Sponsored by Cardhoarder
Leaderboard
Archetypes
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Izzet Spells | 26 | 44–56 | 44.0 | 2 |
| Druid Cephalid Breakfast | 22 | 41–41 | 50.0 | 2 |
| Esper Control | 18 | 40–34 | 54.1 | |
| Simic Madness | 16 | 22–26 | 45.8 | 1 |
| Demonic Rising | 14 | 30–24 | 55.6 | 3 |
| Mono White Heroic | 12 | 28–14 | 66.7 | 2 |
| Aggro | 8 | 11–24 | 31.4 | |
| Red Deck Wins | 28 | 45–44 | 50.6 | 1 |
| Proliferate Red | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |
| Mono Black Aggro | 16 | 31–30 | 50.8 | |
| Elves | 15 | 23–43 | 34.8 | |
| White Weenie | 8 | 15–13 | 53.6 | |
| Soldiers | 6 | 9–14 | 39.1 | |
| Zombies | 6 | 12–10 | 54.5 | |
| Werewolves | 3 | 10–5 | 66.7 | |
| Mono Red Swarm | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Selesnya Little Kid | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Selesnya Tokens | 8 | 5–11 | 31.3 | |
| Tempered Steel | 8 | 9–15 | 37.5 | |
| Dimir Control | 7 | 14–6 | 70.0 | |
| Jeskai Control | 7 | 10–12 | 45.5 | |
| Unclassified | 6 | 3–9 | 25.0 | |
| Combo | 5 | 2–9 | 18.2 | |
| Hypergenesis | 15 | 14–19 | 42.4 | |
| Eggs | 14 | 18–21 | 46.2 | 1 |
| Storm | 5 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |
| Izzet Storm | 3 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |
| Simic Storm | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Channel Storm | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Biovisionary | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Saffi Combo | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Orzhov Allies | 5 | 9–12 | 42.9 | |
| Stax | 5 | 8–10 | 44.4 | |
| Azorius Control | 4 | 9–3 | 75.0 | |
| Midrange | 4 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |
| Graveyard Value | 16 | 14–29 | 32.6 | |
| Jund | 8 | 15–13 | 53.6 | |
| Mardu Midrange | 3 | 9–5 | 64.3 | |
| Mono Black Midrange | 3 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |
| Toughness Matters | 2 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Abzan Midrange | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Artifact Midrange | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Blink | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Wave Blink | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |
| Azorius Wave | 4 | 9–3 | 75.0 | 1 |
| Dimir Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Sultai Midrange | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Mono Blue Gush | 4 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 4 | 5–10 | 33.3 | |
| Ninjas | 4 | 3–13 | 18.8 | |
| Combo-Control | 3 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |
| Battle of Wits | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |
| Life is Ez | 3 | 7–2 | 77.8 | 1 |
| Mardu Allies | 3 | 8–5 | 61.5 | |
| Affinity | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Aggro-Combo | 2 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |
| Infect | 5 | 1–12 | 7.7 | |
| Golgari Infect | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Burn | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |
| Aristocrats | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |
| Food | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |
| Hermit Humans | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |
| Goblin Persist | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |
| Izzet Tempo | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Mono Black Vampires | 2 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mono Blue Control | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| 12 Pest | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Blackpost | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |
| Cycling Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Astral Slide | 3 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |
| Dimir Cloudpost Control | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |
| Equipment Aggro | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |
| Five Color Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Mill | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Ramp | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |
| Cloudpost Ramp | 6 | 12–15 | 44.4 | |
| Greenpost | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Rofellos Ramp | 5 | 9–10 | 47.4 | |
| Channel-Rofellos | 113 | 280–125 | 69.1 | 15 |
| Traditional Reanimator | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |
| Turbo Fog | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 |