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, 6 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 73 | 120–130 | 48.0 | 4 | 5 | 2387 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 29 | 60–41 | 59.4 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Heroic | 12 | 30–17 | 63.8 | 2 | ||
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 12 | 30–17 | 63.8 | 2 | ||
| Red Deck Wins | 5 | 9–5 | 64.3 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 3 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
| Salvage Titan | 3 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
| Humans | 9 | 20–12 | 62.5 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Gruul Humans | 9 | 20–12 | 62.5 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Combo | 25 | 36–51 | 41.4 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Storm | 8 | 13–12 | 52.0 | 1 | ||
| Hazoret Storm | 8 | 13–12 | 52.0 | 1 | ||
| Reanimator | 5 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 5 | 4–8 | 33.3 | |||
| Grixis Reanimator | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Turntimber Ranger | 6 | 13–15 | 46.4 | 0 | 2 | |
| Retraction Helix Combo | 6 | 6–16 | 27.3 | |||
| Control | 5 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |||
| Esper Control | 3 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Grixis Control | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
| Cruel Control | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Burn | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 4 | 5–8 | 38.5 | |||
| Wizards | 4 | 5–8 | 38.5 | |||
| Midrange | 9 | 13–20 | 39.4 | |||
| Legends Midrange | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Big Red | 6 | 12–13 | 48.0 | |||
| Hellion Whip | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Adeliz, the Cinder Wind
- Banishing Knack
- Bar the Door
- Bone Shards
- Corridor Monitor
- Eureka
- Fractal Summoning
- Gaddock Teeg
- Garrison Cat
- Ghalta, Primal Hunger
- Ghoulcaller's Harvest
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Herald of Hadar
- High Tide
- Hurly-Burly
- Ichorid
- Kudo, King Among Bears
- Lead the Stampede
- Locthwain Gargoyle
- Mercurial Transformation
- Rapacious One
- Redcap Melee
- Sandstorm Salvager
- Satyr's Cunning
- Selfless Savior
- Shield Mate
- Slip Out the Back
- Soul-Guide Lantern
- The Underworld Cookbook
- Thousand-Year Storm
- Vampire Opportunist
- Venerated Loxodon
- Vengeful Dead
- Vigorous Charge
- Vilis, Broker of Blood
- Whipflare