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, 3 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 70–67 | 51.1 | 1 | 8 | 1400 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 6 | 19–11 | 63.3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mono Black Aggro | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Heroic | 4 | 13–6 | 68.4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mono White Heroic | 4 | 13–6 | 68.4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Elves | 1 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Combo | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Control | 5 | 5–11 | 31.3 | |||
| Mono Black Control | 2 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
| Azorius Control | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Adam's Ale | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Ponza | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 6 | 9–11 | 45.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Aristocrats | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Rakdos Aristocrats | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Burn | 5 | 9–10 | 47.4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Aggro-Control | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Izzet Spells | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Combo-Control | 5 | 10–13 | 43.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Cruel Combo-Control | 2 | 7–4 | 63.6 | 0 | 1 | |
| Solar Flare | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Mass Land Destruction | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
| Wildfire | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
| Borderpost Wildfire | 2 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
| Midrange | 4 | 6–6 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Blink | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Wave Blink | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Esper Wave | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Dimir Midrange | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Lifegain Midrange | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Ramp | 5 | 14–8 | 63.6 | 1 | 3 | |
| Cloudpost Ramp | 5 | 14–8 | 63.6 | 1 | 3 | |
| Greenpost | 5 | 14–8 | 63.6 | 1 | 3 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Academy Elite
- Agatha of the Vile Cauldron
- Amnesia
- Animal Magnetism
- Archon of Redemption
- Armada Wurm
- Athreos, God of Passage
- Bounty of the Hunt
- Calming Verse
- Chandra, Novice Pyromancer
- Corpse Knight
- Court Hussar
- Detainment Spell
- Deus of Calamity
- Diabolic Edict
- Don't Make a Sound
- Emancipation Angel
- Embraal Bruiser
- Enduring Angel
- Eternal Dominion
- Eye of the Storm
- Faerie Tauntings
- Fire Shrine Keeper
- Firespitter Whelp
- Gather Specimens
- Goblin Anarchomancer
- Groundbreaker
- Harvest Wurm
- Heat of Battle
- Hellkite Whelp
- Impassioned Orator
- Iname as One
- Innocuous Rat
- Jinxed Ring
- Karn's Temporal Sundering
- Krovikan Horror
- Kumena's Awakening
- Leonin Snarecaster
- Llawan, Cephalid Empress
- Magda, the Hoardmaster
- Mangara's Blessing
- Mass Hysteria
- Mind Slash
- Mist-Cloaked Herald
- Murder Investigation
- Pale Rider of Trostad
- Petravark
- Phyresis
- Pitiless Plunderer
- Psychic Miasma
- Reluctant Role Model
- Repeated Reverberation
- Resculpt
- Riftsweeper
- Ring of Gix
- Riverfall Mimic
- Sadistic Sacrament
- Searing Flesh
- Searing Rays
- Seer's Vision
- Sicken
- Skirk Shaman
- Soul Stair Expedition
- Storm Fleet Arsonist
- Sun's Bounty
- Surprise Deployment
- Thrull Retainer
- Tolarian Winds
- Trading Post
- Two-Headed Giant
- Venarian Glimmer
- Vexing Sphinx
- Wail of the Nim
- Wei Night Raiders
- Zombie Cannibal