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 9 weeks, 3 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 41–50 | 45.1 | 2 | 1073 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 15 | 14–16 | 46.7 | |||
| Goblins | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Tokens | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Selesnya Tokens | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Green Stompy | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Elves | 3 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Werewolves | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Minotaurs | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Merfolk | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Devoid Aggro | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Cats | 3 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
| Selesnya Cats | 3 | 6–4 | 60.0 | |||
| Humans | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Selesnya Humans | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo | 3 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
| Jeskai Ascendancy | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Jokulhaups Combo | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Control | 4 | 6–5 | 54.5 | 1 | ||
| Mill | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Ponza | 3 | 6–4 | 60.0 | 1 | ||
| Aggro-Combo | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Aristocrats | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Burn | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mass Land Destruction | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Jokulhaups Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Jund Jokulhaups Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Midrange | 14 | 9–20 | 31.0 | |||
| Jund | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Graveyard Value | 3 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
| Séance | 3 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
| Mono Black Midrange | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
| Mono Black Devotion | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
| Hero of Precinct One | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Simic Snow | 4 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
| Coinflips | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Ramp | 2 | 8–2 | 80.0 | 1 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Bedrock Tortoise
- Bestial Bloodline
- Bilious Skulldweller
- Billiard Room
- Captive Audience
- Croaking Counterpart
- Dance of the Tumbleweeds
- Diamond Faerie
- Dual Casting
- Dungeon Crawler
- Embereth Veteran
- Enfeeblement
- Evolving Adaptive
- Furycalm Snarl
- Graceful Restoration
- Guardian of New Benalia
- Howling Moon
- In the Eye of Chaos
- Kaya, Intangible Slayer
- Llanowar Loamspeaker
- Map the Frontier
- Mesmeric Orb
- Molten Duplication
- Packsong Pup
- Professional Face-Breaker
- Redcap Gutter-Dweller
- Refute
- Riders of Rohan
- Scorching Shot
- Serpent of Yawning Depths
- Soul Partition
- Sun-Blessed Mount
- Surgical Skullbomb
- Théoden, King of Rohan
- Topiary Stomper
- Urza, Prince of Kroog
- Vermin Gorger