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 11 weeks, 5 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | 71–88 | 44.7 | 2 | 1452 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 8 | 21–15 | 58.3 | |||
| Heroic | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Tokens | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Selesnya Tokens | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Elves | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
| Madness | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Gruul Madness | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Naya Zoo | 3 | 8–6 | 57.1 | |||
| AggroSlide | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Combo | 8 | 6–12 | 33.3 | 1 | ||
| Storm | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Simic Storm | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Maniac Combo | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Metalwork Colossus | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Izzet Ascension | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Breakfast | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
| Oops All Spells | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
| Gyruda | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Control | 5 | 7–10 | 41.2 | |||
| Mono Black Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Cloudpost Control | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Bant Control | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Pox | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 4 | 9–7 | 56.3 | |||
| Aristocrats | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Golgari Aristocrats | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Trickbind Dreadnought | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
| Mono Blue Dreadnought | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Hushnought | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Dimir Tempo | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 5 | 3–14 | 17.6 | |||
| Curses | 5 | 3–14 | 17.6 | |||
| Midrange | 10 | 11–18 | 37.9 | 1 | ||
| Selesnya Midrange | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Blink | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Naya Midrange | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Big Red | 4 | 9–8 | 52.9 | 1 | ||
| Jeskai Midrange | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Artifact Midrange | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Ramp | 7 | 13–11 | 54.2 | |||
| Rofellos Ramp | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Wild Pair | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Cloudpost Ramp | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Greenpost | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Defenders | 4 | 13–6 | 68.4 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Akki War Paint
- Barkform Harvester
- Batterbone
- Blade of Shared Souls
- Blight Pile
- Botanical Brawler
- Breach the Multiverse
- Burn Down the House
- Careful Cultivation
- Chatterstorm
- Gaea's Will
- Grab the Prize
- Guardian of the Great Door
- Haunted Screen
- Horn of Gondor
- Icon of Ancestry
- Intimidation Campaign
- Mirran Safehouse
- Norn's Wellspring
- Oltec Matterweaver
- Otterball Antics
- Ovika, Enigma Goliath
- Pixie Illusionist
- Plundering Barbarian
- Relic of Legends
- Rhox Pummeler
- Scour the Desert
- Scrapwork Rager
- Sculpted Perfection
- Shrike Force
- Soul of Eternity
- Take the Fall
- The Fair Basilica
- The Hunter Maze
- Three Tree Mascot
- Viridian Longbow
- Windrider Wizard