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 8 weeks, 2 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 72–29 | 71.3 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 2040 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |||
| Red Deck Wins | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Gruul Aggro | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Control | 2 | 5–2 | 71.4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Demonic Rising | 1 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
| Dynavolt Tower | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 3 | 10–1 | 90.9 | 1 | ||
| Combo-Control | 7 | 19–9 | 67.9 | 0 | 4 | |
| Cruel Combo-Control | 7 | 19–9 | 67.9 | 0 | 4 | |
| Midrange | 7 | 16–8 | 66.7 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Jund | 2 | 5–3 | 62.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Blink | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Yisan-Prophet | 3 | 9–1 | 90.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Legends Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Boros Legends Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Ramp | 4 | 15–6 | 71.4 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Domain | 4 | 15–6 | 71.4 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Cards Played First
- Birds of Paradise
- Bloodshot Cyclops
- Borderland Behemoth
- Chromanticore
- Court Street Denizen
- Cragplate Baloth
- Death Cloud
- Disciple of Griselbrand
- Drannith Healer
- Drannith Stinger
- Dust Elemental
- Elvish Clancaller
- Engineered Plague
- Enigma Sphinx
- Fallen Ideal
- Flourishing Fox
- Footfall Crater
- Fracturing Gust
- Go for Blood
- Grand Warlord Radha
- Hamletback Goliath
- Horobi's Whisper
- Immaculate Magistrate
- Imposing Vantasaur
- Leyline of Anticipation
- Lightning Serpent
- Memory Leak
- Mirrorweave
- Necropotence
- Oketra the True
- Psychic Puppetry
- Putrid Imp
- Pyroclasm
- Run Wild
- Savai Thundermane
- Seismic Assault
- Skirge Familiar
- Skull Fracture
- Sleeper Dart
- Soul of New Phyrexia
- Spoils of the Vault
- Swans of Bryn Argoll
- Sylvan Library
- Tendrils of Corruption
- Thundercloud Shaman
- Totem-Guide Hartebeest
- Ulvenwald Tracker
- Valiant Rescuer
- Vitality Charm
- Wispweaver Angel
- Zenith Flare