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 2 weeks, 3 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 106 | 261–139 | 65.3 | 1 | 19 | 1896 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 22 | 48–32 | 60.0 | |||
| Red Deck Wins | 5 | 9–6 | 60.0 | |||
| Proliferate Red | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Mono Green Stompy | 6 | 11–11 | 50.0 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 3 | 7–4 | 63.6 | |||
| Salvage Titan | 3 | 7–4 | 63.6 | |||
| Devoid Aggro | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Madness | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Rakdos Madness | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo | 11 | 31–12 | 72.1 | 2 | ||
| Storm | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
| Dragonstorm | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
| Reanimator | 7 | 21–8 | 72.4 | 1 | ||
| Worldgorger Dragon | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 6 | 18–6 | 75.0 | 1 | ||
| Rakdos Reanimator | 2 | 8–2 | 80.0 | |||
| Mono Black Reanimator | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Necro Combo | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Soulflayer | 2 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Control | 30 | 73–37 | 66.4 | 7 | ||
| Mono Black Control | 4 | 6–5 | 54.5 | |||
| Dimir Control | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Izzet Control | 4 | 9–3 | 75.0 | 1 | ||
| Mardu Control | 3 | 6–6 | 50.0 | 1 | ||
| Grixis Control | 7 | 19–8 | 70.4 | 2 | ||
| Cruel Control | 7 | 19–8 | 70.4 | 2 | ||
| Chandra Nalaar | 6 | 16–6 | 72.7 | 2 | ||
| Ponza | 2 | 5–1 | 83.3 | 1 | ||
| Pox | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 3 | 7–4 | 63.6 | |||
| Izzet Tempo | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Izzet Spells | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 3 | 9–6 | 60.0 | |||
| Mass Land Destruction | 3 | 9–6 | 60.0 | |||
| Wildfire | 3 | 9–6 | 60.0 | |||
| Midrange | 26 | 57–43 | 57.0 | 5 | ||
| Temur Ascendancy | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Blink | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Legends Midrange | 2 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |||
| Mardu Legends | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Naya Midrange | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Big Red | 9 | 30–10 | 75.0 | 3 | ||
| Mono Black Midrange | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Mono Black Devotion | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Party | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
| Fires of Invention | 3 | 7–6 | 53.8 | 1 | ||
| Simic Snow | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Death Cloud | 2 | 8–2 | 80.0 | 1 | ||
| Ramp | 11 | 36–5 | 87.8 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Rofellos Ramp | 6 | 25–1 | 96.2 | 4 | ||
| Cloudpost Ramp | 2 | |||||
| Greenpost | 2 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Abominable Treefolk
- Alms of the Vein
- Arvad the Cursed
- Boreal Centaur
- Conifer Wurm
- Corrupt
- Desert of the Fervent
- Dunes of the Dead
- Everflowing Chalice
- Fervent Denial
- Frostwalk Bastion
- Glacial Revelation
- Goblin Electromancer
- Gruul Signet
- Hellcarver Demon
- Icehide Golem
- Inexorable Blob
- Lightning Surge
- Magma Burst
- Marit Lage's Slumber
- Maulfist Revolutionary
- Mind Shatter
- Moonlight Bargain
- Olivia's Dragoon
- Overeager Apprentice
- Persecute
- Petradon
- Phyrexian Ironfoot
- Pith Driller
- Promise of Power
- Quenchable Fire
- Rage Extractor
- Rime Tender
- Rix Maadi, Dungeon Palace
- Sire of Insanity
- Sorin's Vengeance
- Sphinx of Uthuun
- Strength of Solidarity
- Thunderblade Charge
- Thundering Tanadon
- Veteran Adventurer
- Victimize
- Wanted Scoundrels
- Wayfarer's Bauble