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 5 days, 13 hours.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 133 | 286–163 | 63.7 | 16 | 1922 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 35 | 77–39 | 66.4 | 5 | ||
| Heroic | 13 | 38–17 | 69.1 | 2 | ||
| Mono White Heroic | 12 | 36–15 | 70.6 | 2 | ||
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Red Deck Wins | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Red Devotion | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Tokens | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono White Tokens | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| White Weenie | 11 | 29–9 | 76.3 | 3 | ||
| Rogues | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Gruul Aggro | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |||
| Madness | 5 | 6–7 | 46.2 | |||
| Gruul Madness | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Knights | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo | 21 | 46–26 | 63.9 | 2 | ||
| Reanimator | 11 | 23–18 | 56.1 | |||
| Worldgorger Dragon | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 10 | 22–17 | 56.4 | |||
| Mono Black Reanimator | 10 | 22–17 | 56.4 | |||
| Oriss Genesis | 10 | 23–8 | 74.2 | 2 | ||
| Control | 13 | 27–20 | 57.4 | 2 | ||
| Demonic Rising | 12 | 25–17 | 59.5 | 2 | ||
| Dimir Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 6 | 11–8 | 57.9 | |||
| Aristocrats | 5 | 10–6 | 62.5 | |||
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Rakdos Aristocrats | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |||
| Hushnought | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 3 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
| Izzet Tempo | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Tempo | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Faeries | 2 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Burning Vengeance | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Midrange | 54 | 119–65 | 64.7 | 7 | ||
| Jund | 3 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
| Blink | 34 | 95–35 | 73.1 | 7 | ||
| Wave Blink | 34 | 95–35 | 73.1 | 7 | ||
| Azorius Wave | 11 | 29–11 | 72.5 | 2 | ||
| Orzhov Wave | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Abzan Wave | 22 | 66–23 | 74.2 | 5 | ||
| Graveyard Value | 4 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
| Rakdos Midrange | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Mono Black Midrange | 5 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
| Dimir Midrange | 3 | 5–5 | 50.0 | |||
| Clerics | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Simic Snow | 3 | 5–4 | 55.6 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Arcbound Ravager
- Blink of an Eye
- Champion of Wits
- Darksteel Colossus
- Forever Young
- Fumigate
- Glacial Fortress
- Glint Hawk
- Graven Cairns
- Ivory Mask
- Leaden Fists
- Legion's Initiative
- Mirror Entity
- Neutralize
- Pteramander
- Rally for the Throne
- Restoration Angel
- Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
- Shatter the Sky
- Staggering Insight
- Steel Leaf Champion
- Sunken Ruins
- Swarm Guildmage
- Tori D'Avenant, Fury Rider