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 1 week.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 65–12 | 84.4 | 9 | 2478 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 9 | 21–5 | 80.8 | 3 | ||
| Heroic | 2 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Mono White Heroic | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Boros Heroic | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Goblins | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Legends Aggro | 3 | 15–0 | 100.0 | 3 | ||
| Boros Legends Aggro | 3 | 15–0 | 100.0 | 3 | ||
| Permanent Vacation | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Combo | 9 | 32–3 | 91.4 | 6 | ||
| Reanimator | 6 | 17–3 | 85.0 | 3 | ||
| Living Death | 6 | 17–3 | 85.0 | 3 | ||
| Excruciator Combo | 3 | 6–2 | 75.0 | 1 | ||
| Actual Twin | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
| Izzet Twin | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
| Nadu Combo | 2 | 10–0 | 100.0 | 2 | ||
| Aggro-Control | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Azorius Tempo | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Hive Mind | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Midrange | 4 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |||
| Blink | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
| Vampires | 1 | 2–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Fires of Invention | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Wight Midrange | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Golgari Wight | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Ramp | 2 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
| Cloudpost Ramp | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Simic Post | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Applejacks | 1 | 3–0 | 100.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
- Ashling, Flame Dancer
- Astral Steel
- Battery Bearer
- Behind the Mask
- Body Snatcher
- Brokers Ascendancy
- Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer
- Cascade Bluffs
- Case of the Gateway Express
- Case of the Gorgon's Kiss
- Case of the Uneaten Feast
- Crackling Club
- Cruelclaw's Heist
- Cunning Coyote
- Deathbloom Ritualist
- Desperate Bloodseeker
- Drag the Canal
- Dreamtide Whale
- Elspeth Tirel
- Enterprising Scallywag
- Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald
- Feather of Flight
- Fight Rigging
- Frantic Scapegoat
- Fuss // Bother
- Gempalm Incinerator
- Gixian Puppeteer
- Haytham Kenway
- Hew the Entwood
- Inventor's Axe
- Jerren, Corrupted Bishop
- Kayla's Command
- Kor Spiritdancer
- Lamplight Phoenix
- Lazav, Wearer of Faces
- Levitating Statue
- Liliana, Untouched by Death
- Maestros Ascendancy
- Nurturing Pixie
- Nylea, God of the Hunt
- Ominous Roost
- Optimistic Scavenger
- Patchwork Crawler
- Path to Exile
- Pearl-Ear, Imperial Advisor
- Persist
- Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd
- Pile On
- Quirion Beastcaller
- Regal Bunnicorn
- Requisition Raid
- Rosheen, Roaring Prophet
- Saradoc, Master of Buckland
- Seasoned Warrenguard
- Secret Passage
- Shardmage's Rescue
- Shriveling Rot
- Sigarda, Host of Herons
- Sram, Senior Edificer
- Starving Revenant
- Strength of Isolation
- Sublime Archangel
- Taigam, Ojutai Master
- Tempted by the Oriq
- Terror Tide
- Thalia's Geistcaller
- Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
- Under the Skin
- Volatile Stormdrake
- War Squeak
- Widespread Thieving
- Will, Scion of Peace