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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 94 | 101–163 | 38.3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1378 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 44 | 51–74 | 40.8 | 1 | 3 | |
| Heroic | 8 | 13–11 | 54.2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Mono White Heroic | 8 | 13–11 | 54.2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Red Deck Wins | 7 | 10–12 | 45.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Goblins | 2 | 0–7 | 0.0 | |||
| Tokens | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Mono White Tokens | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| White Weenie | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Zombies | 2 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Merfolk | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 3 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Affinity | 3 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Knights | 6 | 9–10 | 47.4 | |||
| AggroSlide | 13 | 15–25 | 37.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Combo | 12 | 17–24 | 41.5 | 1 | ||
| Storm | 1 | |||||
| Dimir Tendrils | 1 | |||||
| Reanimator | 10 | 17–22 | 43.6 | 1 | ||
| Traditional Reanimator | 10 | 17–22 | 43.6 | 1 | ||
| Mono Black Reanimator | 10 | 17–22 | 43.6 | 1 | ||
| Metalwork Colossus | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Control | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Cloudpost Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Azorius Cloudpost Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Ponza | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 5 | 2–9 | 18.2 | |||
| Burn | 5 | 2–9 | 18.2 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 10 | 9–16 | 36.0 | |||
| Izzet Tempo | 4 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |||
| Mono Blue Tempo | 5 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
| Dimir Tempo | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo-Control | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mass Land Destruction | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Wildfire | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Thryx-Wildfire | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Midrange | 19 | 19–36 | 34.5 | 0 | 2 | |
| Fake-Rack | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mono Black Midrange | 11 | 14–18 | 43.8 | 0 | 1 | |
| Necro Midrange | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Mono Black Devotion | 6 | 9–9 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Hero of Precinct One | 5 | 0–12 | 0.0 | |||
| Orzhov Hero | 4 | 0–10 | 0.0 | |||
| Ramp | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Cloudpost Ramp | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Greenpost | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 |