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 3 days, 2 hours.
Congratulations to vagstor, winner of The Penny Dreadful 500 (Season 35)
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 120 | 188–117 | 61.6 | 2 | 12 | 2101 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 4 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 4 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Tempered Steel | 4 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Combo | 45 | 96–43 | 69.1 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| Storm | 5 | 13–3 | 81.3 | 1 | ||
| Dragonstorm | 5 | 13–3 | 81.3 | 1 | ||
| Jeskai Ascendancy | 4 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Five Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Metalwork Colossus | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
| Anvil Colossus | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
| Eggs | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Izzet Ascension | 17 | 56–13 | 81.2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Soulflayer | 4 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
| Reanim8 Rack | 3 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
| Breakfast | 11 | 18–11 | 62.1 | 2 | ||
| Oops All Spells | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Neoform Hermit | 10 | 17–10 | 63.0 | 2 | ||
| Control | 4 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Mill | 3 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Ponza | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 41 | 50–40 | 55.6 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Aristocrats | 35 | 50–33 | 60.2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 35 | 50–33 | 60.2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Infect | 3 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Simic Infect | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Blazing Shoal Infect | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Trickbind Dreadnought | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Dreadnought | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 4 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Zur's Weirding | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Mass Land Destruction | 3 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Wildfire | 3 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Borderpost Wildfire | 3 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Midrange | 21 | 30–21 | 58.8 | 2 | ||
| The Rock | 3 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
| Golgari Citadel | 3 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
| Blink | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Wave Blink | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Azorius Wave | 3 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Allies | 11 | 23–9 | 71.9 | 2 | ||
| Orzhov Allies | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Mono White Allies | 9 | 21–7 | 75.0 | 2 | ||
| Fires of Invention | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Hero of Precinct One | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Orzhov Hero | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Clerics | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Ramp | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Domain | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 |