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.
-
How do I get started with Magic Online?
Check out the guide to Magic Online.
-
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.
-
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
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 133 | 159–179 | 47.0 | 10 | 1499 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 73 | 114–87 | 56.7 | 9 | ||
| Mono Black Aggro | 4 | 8–8 | 50.0 | |||
| Heroic | 1 | |||||
| Mono White Heroic | 1 | |||||
| Red Deck Wins | 21 | 44–20 | 68.8 | 6 | ||
| Mono Red Devotion | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Proliferate Red | 2 | 9–1 | 90.0 | 1 | ||
| Tokens | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono White Tokens | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Green Stompy | 7 | 11–10 | 52.4 | |||
| White Weenie | 3 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
| Elves | 3 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Selesnya Little Kid | 3 | 10–5 | 66.7 | 1 | ||
| Zombies | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Merfolk | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
| Mono Red Swarm | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
| 8 Whack | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 9 | 5–12 | 29.4 | |||
| Affinity | 3 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
| Tempered Steel | 5 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
| Mono Blue Aggro | 3 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Illusions | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Voltron | 5 | 4–7 | 36.4 | |||
| Hexproof | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
| Hateful Auras | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Knights | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Rakdos Aggro | 2 | 6–1 | 85.7 | 1 | ||
| Humans | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Orzhov Humans | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Mono Red Eldrazi | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo | 14 | 13–24 | 35.1 | |||
| Storm | 2 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
| Dragonstorm | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Hypergenesis | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Breakfast | 3 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |||
| Cephalid Breakfast | 3 | 5–7 | 41.7 | |||
| Druid Cephalid Breakfast | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Belcher | 7 | 7–9 | 43.8 | |||
| Control | 4 | 0–6 | 0.0 | |||
| Turbo Fog | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Grixis Control | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 8 | 5–13 | 27.8 | |||
| Burn | 5 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |||
| Infect | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Mono Black Infect | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Pummeler | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 4 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Azorius Skies | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Blue Madness | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Simic Madness | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Tetsukotog | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 2 | 5–3 | 62.5 | 1 | ||
| Battle of Wits | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Hive Mind | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
| Midrange | 21 | 18–33 | 35.3 | |||
| Temur Ascendancy | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Abzan Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Graveyard Value | 4 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
| Elementals | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Rakdos Midrange | 1 | 3–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Mono Black Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Lifegain Midrange | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Orzhov Midrange | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Neoform | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Temur Neoform | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Fires of Invention | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Illness in the Ranks | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Ramp | 7 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |||
| Rofellos Ramp | 3 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
| Wild Pair | 3 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
| Cloudpost Ramp | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Eldrazipost | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Greenpost | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Domain | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 |