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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | 63–41 | 60.6 | 2 | 2 | 1742 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Voltron | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Hexproof | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Combo | 3 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Reanimator | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Dimir Reanimator | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Ad Nauseam | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Control | 16 | 19–15 | 55.9 | 1 | ||
| Esper Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Azorius Control | 4 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Cloudpost Control | 9 | 13–8 | 61.9 | 1 | ||
| Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 9 | 13–8 | 61.9 | 1 | ||
| Sultai Control | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 21 | 35–20 | 63.6 | 0 | 2 | |
| Trickbind Dreadnought | 21 | 35–20 | 63.6 | 0 | 2 | |
| Mono Blue Dreadnought | 21 | 35–20 | 63.6 | 0 | 2 | |
| Combo-Control | 2 | 5–1 | 83.3 | 1 | ||
| Plasma Swans | 2 | 5–1 | 83.3 | 1 | ||
| Midrange | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Abzan Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Jund | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Cards Played First
- Bind the Monster
- Blossoming Calm
- Chandra, Fire Artisan
- Counterspell
- Curious Obsession
- Delver of Secrets
- Dire Fleet Daredevil
- Dispel
- Flame Blitz
- Flame Sweep
- Frantic Inventory
- Glorybringer
- Growth Spiral
- Heart of Yavimaya
- Jace, Memory Adept
- Lava Coil
- Metamorphic Alteration
- Miscast
- Mystic Gate
- Ponder
- Pongify
- Protean Thaumaturge
- Ratchet Bomb
- Ray of Frost
- Reins of Power
- Runed Halo
- Sweltering Suns
- Temple of Enlightenment
- Thraben Inspector
- Tormod's Crypt
- Wilderness Reclamation