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, 4 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90 | 97–176 | 35.5 | 2 | 2 | 1291 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 48 | 71–82 | 46.4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Heroic | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Tokens | 3 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
| Mono White Tokens | 3 | 2–8 | 20.0 | |||
| White Weenie | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Zombies | 4 | 7–10 | 41.2 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 21 | 40–31 | 56.3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Affinity | 7 | 10–10 | 50.0 | |||
| Tempered Steel | 14 | 30–21 | 58.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Madness | 4 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
| Rakdos Madness | 4 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
| Voltron | 6 | 1–8 | 11.1 | |||
| Hexproof | 6 | 1–8 | 11.1 | |||
| Knights | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| AggroSlide | 4 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
| Rats | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
| Combo | 18 | 15–39 | 27.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Storm | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Izzet Storm | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Reanimator | 8 | 14–18 | 43.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Traditional Reanimator | 8 | 14–18 | 43.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Rakdos Reanimator | 8 | 14–18 | 43.8 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Maniac Combo | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Jeskai Ascendancy | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Four Color Jeskai Ascendancy | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Breakfast | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Oops All Spells | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Dredge | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Control | 6 | 1–14 | 6.7 | |||
| Dimir Control | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Cloudpost Control | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Blue Cloudpost Control | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Five Color Control | 3 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 9 | 7–22 | 24.1 | |||
| Aristocrats | 6 | 5–14 | 26.3 | |||
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Golgari Aristocrats | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Abzan Aristocrats | 4 | 3–9 | 25.0 | |||
| Infect | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Simic Infect | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Hushnought | 1 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 1 | |||||
| Ninjas | 1 | |||||
| Midrange | 7 | 2–18 | 10.0 | |||
| Fake-Rack | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Orzhov Midrange | 3 | 2–11 | 15.4 | |||
| Ramp | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Cloudpost Ramp | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Greenpost | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 |