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, 2 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53 | 111–94 | 54.1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1651 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 6 | 13–13 | 50.0 | |||
| Red Deck Wins | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Goblins | 2 | 5–4 | 55.6 | |||
| White Weenie | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Affinity | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Hardened Scales Affinity | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Combo | 14 | 35–16 | 68.6 | 2 | ||
| Storm | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
| Sultai Tendrils | 1 | 5–0 | 100.0 | 1 | ||
| Reanimator | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Recurring Nightmare | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Four Color Powerful Magic | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Necrotic Ooze Combo | 2 | 5–1 | 83.3 | 1 | ||
| Warp World | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Actual Warp World | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| New Perspectives | 2 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
| Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | |||||
| Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 1 | |||||
| Izzet Ascension | 5 | 12–7 | 63.2 | |||
| Nadu Combo | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Control | 8 | 21–14 | 60.0 | 1 | 2 | |
| Grixis Control | 2 | 7–4 | 63.6 | 1 | 1 | |
| Cruel Control | 2 | 7–4 | 63.6 | 1 | 1 | |
| Stax | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Pollute the Planet | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Jeskai Control | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Dragon Control | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Cycling Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Astral Slide | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Aggro-Combo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Aristocrats | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Burning Vengeance | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Midrange | 13 | 20–31 | 39.2 | 0 | 1 | |
| The Rock | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
| Grenzo | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Graveyard Value | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Mardu Midrange | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Big Red | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Dimir Midrange | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Sultai Midrange | 3 | 6–7 | 46.2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Sultai Emerge | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Hero of Precinct One | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Abzan Hero | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Wight Midrange | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Golgari Wight | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Ramp | 10 | 21–17 | 55.3 | |||
| Villainous Wealth | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Cloudpost Ramp | 4 | 13–7 | 65.0 | |||
| Greenpost | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Domain | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Summer Bloom Ramp | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Reclamation at Wake | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 |