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 12 weeks, 6 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 37–27–4 | 57.8 | 6 | 2 | 1603 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 3 | 5–1 | 83.3 | |||
| Heroic | 2 | 5–1 | 83.3 | |||
| Mono White Heroic | 2 | 5–1 | 83.3 | |||
| Red Deck Wins | 1 | |||||
| Mono Red Devotion | 1 | |||||
| Control | 5 | 6–11–1 | 35.3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mono Black Control | 3 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |||
| Grixis Control | 2 | 4–4–1 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Cruel Control | 2 | 4–4–1 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Aggro-Combo | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
| Aristocrats | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
| Combo-Control | 2 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
| Mass Land Destruction | 2 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
| Wildfire | 2 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
| Borderpost Wildfire | 2 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
| Midrange | 6 | 16–9–3 | 64.0 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| Vampires | 3 | 8–4–1 | 66.7 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Mono Black Vampires | 3 | 8–4–1 | 66.7 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Aquastrand Spider
- Baloth Pup
- Bandage
- Big Game Hunter
- Call the Bloodline
- Cephalid Shrine
- Chlorophant
- Coat of Arms
- Cytoplast Root-Kin
- Daily Regimen
- Deadeye Navigator
- Death Ward
- Demystify
- Descendants' Path
- Dissipation Field
- Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
- Eland Umbra
- Enshrouding Mist
- Faith Unbroken
- Feast of Blood
- Freewind Falcon
- Glaring Aegis
- Gnat Miser
- Guul Draz Assassin
- Heal
- Honored Hierarch
- Illusory Angel
- Indulgent Aristocrat
- Indulgent Tormentor
- Inspire Awe
- Inspiring Call
- Kavu Predator
- Kinjalli's Sunwing
- Kithkin Armor
- Limited Resources
- Luminescent Rain
- Magmatic Insight
- Malakir Bloodwitch
- Mending Hands
- Military Intelligence
- Mortal Obstinacy
- Nimbus Wings
- Pain Seer
- Protean Hydra
- Renegade Krasis
- Reverent Hunter
- Rot Shambler
- Rushing River
- Sage Owl
- Sangromancer
- Sanity Grinding
- Seize the Initiative
- Shadowfeed
- Shielded Passage
- Shieldmate's Blessing
- Siegehorn Ceratops
- Simic Initiate
- Smite
- Sphinx's Tutelage
- Spike Rogue
- Sprite Noble
- Stampede
- Stave Off
- Succumb to Temptation
- Traveling Plague
- Unlicensed Disintegration
- Urge to Feed
- Vampire Cutthroat
- Voice of All
- Wasp Lancer
- Wildsize
- Wirewood Pride