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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 79 | 50–160 | 23.8 | 1 | 1042 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 7 | 12–8 | 60.0 | 1 | ||
| Mono Black Aggro | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| White Weenie | 2 | 5–2 | 71.4 | 1 | ||
| Quest for the Holy Relic | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
| Knights | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
| AggroSlide | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Combo | 31 | 7–66 | 9.6 | |||
| Storm | 7 | 0–13 | 0.0 | |||
| Song Storm | 7 | 0–13 | 0.0 | |||
| Jeskai Ascendancy | 12 | 5–30 | 14.3 | |||
| Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 5 | 4–17 | 19.0 | |||
| Fake-Twin | 5 | 2–11 | 15.4 | |||
| Naya Fake-Twin | 5 | 2–11 | 15.4 | |||
| Metalwork Colossus | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Eggs | 3 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Dredge | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Control | 3 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Mill | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Cloudpost Control | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Dimir Cloudpost Control | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Bant Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 7 | 4–12 | 25.0 | |||
| Burn | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Trickbind Dreadnought | 5 | 4–10 | 28.6 | |||
| Hushnought | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 4 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |||
| Spirits | 4 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |||
| Azorius Spirits | 4 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |||
| Combo-Control | 7 | 2–25 | 7.4 | |||
| Battle of Wits | 7 | 2–25 | 7.4 | |||
| Midrange | 7 | 5–15 | 25.0 | |||
| Abzan Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Jund | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Graveyard Value | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Orzhov Midrange | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Fires of Invention | 2 | 1–7 | 12.5 | |||
| Ramp | 13 | 13–24 | 35.1 | |||
| Defenders | 6 | 8–10 | 44.4 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
- Bee Sting
- Feast on the Fallen
- Flamekin Brawler
- Green Dragon
- Harmattan Efreet
- Headlong Rush
- Lavakin Brawler
- Mawcor
- Pious Kitsune
- Possessed Centaur
- Ridgetop Raptor
- Rimewind Cryomancer
- Scavenging Scarab
- Security Blockade
- Shinen of Life's Roar
- Shoreline Raider
- Slayer's Cleaver
- Spellbinder
- Tanglewalker
- Viashino Bladescout
- Witch-Maw Nephilim
Cards Played First
- Bee Sting
- Containment Breach
- Cubwarden
- Divine Light
- Electric Revelation
- Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
- Feast on the Fallen
- Flamekin Brawler
- Green Dragon
- Guardian of Pilgrims
- Harmattan Efreet
- Headlong Rush
- Hunt for Specimens
- Huntmaster Liger
- Hussar Patrol
- Lavakin Brawler
- Lore Drakkis
- Mawcor
- Nykthos Paragon
- Patron of the Kitsune
- Pest Summoning
- Pious Kitsune
- Possessed Centaur
- Regal Leosaur
- Regeneration
- Replicating Ring
- Ridgetop Raptor
- Rimewind Cryomancer
- Roil Eruption
- Scavenging Scarab
- Security Blockade
- Shinen of Life's Roar
- Shoreline Raider
- Slayer's Cleaver
- Soldevi Machinist
- Song of Creation
- Spellbinder
- Spirit of the Aldergard
- Tanglewalker
- Tend the Pests
- Viashino Bladescout
- Weaponize the Monsters
- Witch-Maw Nephilim