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 7 weeks, 5 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 91 | 242–182–5 | 57.1 | 7 | 34 | 2 | 1699 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 43 | 124–81–1 | 60.5 | 5 | 21 | 1 |
| Heroic | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mono White Heroic | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Red Deck Wins | 1 | 6–1 | 85.7 | 1 | 1 | |
| Goblins | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
| Tokens | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Selesnya Tokens | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| White Weenie | 32 | 96–59–1 | 61.9 | 4 | 18 | 1 |
| Odric Keywords | 32 | 96–59–1 | 61.9 | 4 | 18 | 1 |
| Selesnya Little Kid | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Zombies | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Affinity | 2 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Aggro | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Slivers | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Combo | 11 | 24–23 | 51.1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Reanimator | 5 | 12–10 | 54.5 | 1 | 1 | |
| Recurring Nightmare | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Jund Nightmare | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 4 | 10–8 | 55.6 | 1 | 1 | |
| Necrotic Ooze Combo | 3 | 10–4 | 71.4 | 1 | ||
| Hypergenesis | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Hyperwave | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Polymorph | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Control | 20 | 47–42–2 | 52.8 | 1 | 5 | |
| Mono Black Control | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Demonic Rising | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Dimir Control | 11 | 37–21–2 | 63.8 | 1 | 5 | |
| Azorius Control | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
| Adam's Ale | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Turbo Fog | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Grixis Control | 2 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
| Cruel Control | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Jeskai Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Dragon Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 3 | 5–8 | 38.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Aristocrats | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mardu Aristocrats | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Hermit Humans | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
| Cruel Combo-Control | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Battle of Wits | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Midrange | 11 | 27–21–2 | 56.3 | 0 | 6 | |
| Temur Ascendancy | 3 | 10–7 | 58.8 | 0 | 3 | |
| Selesnya Midrange | 5 | 13–8–2 | 61.9 | 0 | 3 | |
| Blink | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Wave Blink | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Azorius Wave | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Ramp | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Acidic Sliver
- Aetherling
- All Suns' Dawn
- An-Zerrin Ruins
- Angel of Glory's Rise
- Apocalypse Hydra
- Arbor Colossus
- Archetype of Endurance
- Aven Sunstriker
- Azure Mage
- Barbed Sliver
- Bathe in Light
- Black Knight
- Blinding Angel
- Bonesplitter Sliver
- Cadaver Imp
- Call of the Herd
- Captain of the Watch
- Celestial Crusader
- Charmbreaker Devils
- Clan Defiance
- Cleanse
- Clot Sliver
- Cloudblazer
- Combust
- Complete Disregard
- Consult the Necrosages
- Corpse Churn
- Counterflux
- Courageous Outrider
- Cranial Archive
- Cyclops of Eternal Fury
- Damping Matrix
- Darkheart Sliver
- Diluvian Primordial
- Diminishing Returns
- Disciple of Phenax
- Divine Sacrament
- Door to Nothingness
- Doorkeeper
- Douse
- Dream Cache
- Drown in Filth
- Eight-and-a-Half-Tails
- Elite Inquisitor
- Energy Storm
- Extinguish All Hope
- Eyes of the Wisent
- Far // Away
- Fathom Seer
- Firemind's Foresight
- Flashfreeze
- Flesh // Blood
- Frenzy Sliver
- Frost Lynx
- Gather the Pack
- Gelatinous Genesis
- Gemhide Sliver
- Ghostflame Sliver
- Gideon's Defeat
- Goblin Wardriver
- Goldnight Commander
- Grasslands
- Grixis Panorama
- Harmonic Sliver
- Hearthfire Hobgoblin
- Hired Torturer
- Homing Sliver
- Honden of Cleansing Fire
- Honden of Infinite Rage
- Honden of Life's Web
- Honden of Seeing Winds
- Hypnotic Siren
- Imposing Sovereign
- Insight
- Jarad's Orders
- Jareth, Leonine Titan
- Kapsho Kitefins
- Karn, Silver Golem
- Keeper of the Mind
- Kessig Malcontents
- Lavinia of the Tenth
- Leeching Sliver
- Legerdemain
- Liquimetal Coating
- Lone Rider
- Ludevic's Test Subject
- Man-o'-War
- Manic Vandal
- Manor Gargoyle
- Martyr of Frost
- Mass Polymorph
- Massive Raid
- Mayor of Avabruck
- Mesmeric Fiend
- Might Sliver
- Minister of Impediments
- Molder Slug
- Molten Birth
- Nature's Lore
- Nature's Ruin
- Necrotic Ooze
- Nekrataal
- Nephalia Drownyard
- Neurok Commando
- Nobilis of War
- Odric, Lunarch Marshal
- Odric, Master Tactician
- Omenspeaker
- Order of Whiteclay
- Pelakka Wurm
- Pestilence Demon
- Phantom General
- Phyrexian Devourer
- Phyrexian Etchings
- Pillar of Light
- Pitchstone Wall
- Plummet
- Predatory Advantage
- Punishing Fire
- Puppeteer Clique
- Questing Phelddagrif
- Quilled Sliver
- Radiant, Archangel
- Rage Nimbus
- Reach of Branches
- Reap Intellect
- Rhonas's Last Stand
- Riders of Gavony
- Riptide Pilferer
- Rites of Flourishing
- Ritual of the Machine
- Rogue's Passage
- Rolling Thunder
- Rugged Highlands
- Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
- Saheeli's Artistry
- Salt Marsh
- Savage Lands
- Scrabbling Claws
- Searing Spear
- Sek'Kuar, Deathkeeper
- Sign in Blood
- Silvos, Rogue Elemental
- Skinrender
- Sky Hussar
- Soul of Theros
- Spearbreaker Behemoth
- Sphere of Grace
- Spined Sliver
- Stonehorn Dignitary
- Strip Bare
- Stromkirk Noble
- Sudden Death
- Thassa's Rebuff
- Thorncaster Sliver
- Thoughtbind
- Tocatli Honor Guard
- Tradewind Rider
- Triskelion
- Tuktuk Scrapper
- Tuktuk the Explorer
- Two-Headed Sliver
- Vector Asp
- Vendetta
- Venom Sliver
- Vent Sentinel
- Viashino Heretic
- Ward Sliver
- Warmonger's Chariot
- Warped Landscape
- Woodlot Crawler
- Xathrid Necromancer