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, 5 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76 | 71–153 | 31.7 | 1 | 1247 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 36 | 37–77 | 32.5 | 1 | ||
| Mono Black Aggro | 8 | 11–17 | 39.3 | |||
| Red Deck Wins | 7 | 15–12 | 55.6 | 1 | ||
| Goblins | 4 | 0–9 | 0.0 | |||
| Tokens | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Selesnya Tokens | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Mono Green Stompy | 3 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
| White Weenie | 3 | 3–9 | 25.0 | |||
| Merfolk | 3 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 3 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |||
| Affinity | 1 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Tempered Steel | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Boros Aggro | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo | 5 | 6–10 | 37.5 | |||
| Reanimator | 4 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 4 | 6–8 | 42.9 | |||
| Rakdos Reanimator | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Mono Black Reanimator | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
| Fake-Twin | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Control | 13 | 14–24 | 36.8 | |||
| Mono Black Control | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Turbo Fog | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
| Mill | 2 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Ponza | 5 | 10–8 | 55.6 | |||
| Sultai Control | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Pox | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 4 | 2–7 | 22.2 | |||
| Aristocrats | 3 | 2–6 | 25.0 | |||
| Mono Black Aristocrats | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Orzhov Aristocrats | 2 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
| Burn | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 5 | 3–7 | 30.0 | |||
| Lich Aggro-Control | 4 | 3–6 | 33.3 | |||
| Izzet Spells | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Midrange | 12 | 8–24 | 25.0 | |||
| Jund | 2 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
| Treefolk | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Mardu Midrange | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | |||
| Mono Black Midrange | 5 | 3–10 | 23.1 | |||
| Mono Black Devotion | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Ramp | 1 | 1–4 | 20.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Aven Trailblazer
- Conjurer's Ban
- Death's Approach
- Ferropede
- Gustcloak Harrier
- Heartwood Treefolk
- Herald of Secret Streams
- Lava Burst
- Mask of Intolerance
- Meandering Towershell
- Psychogenic Probe
- Scourge of the Nobilis
- Seed the Land
- Somberwald Dryad
- Sprite Dragon
- Temporal Extortion
- Territorial Roc
- Tideshaper Mystic
- Vampiric Embrace
- Wall of Stone