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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93 | 141–133 | 51.5 | 11 | 3 | 1851 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 66 | 115–91 | 55.8 | 0 | 10 | 3 |
| Heroic | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
| Mono White Heroic | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
| Tokens | 28 | 54–38 | 58.7 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| Selesnya Tokens | 24 | 47–31 | 60.3 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| Mono Green Stompy | 12 | 23–15 | 60.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| White Weenie | 3 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Minotaurs | 4 | 9–8 | 52.9 | 0 | 1 | |
| Zombies | 17 | 26–22 | 54.2 | 0 | 3 | |
| Combo | 3 | 6–5 | 54.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Reanimator | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| New Perspectives | 2 | 5–3 | 62.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Control | 7 | 6–11 | 35.3 | |||
| Mono Black Control | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Grixis Control | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
| Galleon Control | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Dynavolt Tower | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Blue Madness | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Simic Madness | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Midrange | 8 | 11–9 | 55.0 | |||
| Graveyard Value | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Prophet Glare | 3 | 7–4 | 63.6 | |||
| Ramp | 7 | 3–12 | 20.0 | |||
| Cloudpost Ramp | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Gruul Post | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Aerial Modification
- Blind-Spot Giant
- Bound in Silence
- Cartographer's Survey
- Crush Underfoot
- Defiant Vanguard
- Elephant Ambush
- Fungal Plots
- Grave Bramble
- Greener Pastures
- Marshaling Cry
- Minotaur Skullcleaver
- Old-Growth Dryads
- Ramosian Revivalist
- Sages of the Anima
- Saproling Migration
- Spore Swarm
- Sporecrown Thallid
- Stinkdrinker Daredevil
- Sunder Shaman
- Sunrise Sovereign
- Surge Node
- Yavimaya Sapherd