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 8 weeks, 3 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77 | 61–97–1 | 38.6 | 1 | 7 | 1368 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 12 | 24–20 | 54.5 | 1 | 5 | |
| Heroic | 9 | 22–15 | 59.5 | 1 | 5 | |
| Mono Red Blitzkrieg | 9 | 22–15 | 59.5 | 1 | 5 | |
| Elves | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Artifact Aggro | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Boros Vehicles | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Voltron | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Combo | 6 | 4–9 | 30.8 | |||
| Reanimator | 3 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 3 | 2–4 | 33.3 | |||
| Warp World | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Actual Warp World | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Ominous Good | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Control | 16 | 10–15 | 40.0 | |||
| Esper Control | 4 | 4–2 | 66.7 | |||
| Mono Blue Control | 1 | |||||
| Mardu Control | 4 | 1–5 | 16.7 | |||
| Mill | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Enchantments Control | 1 | 3–1 | 75.0 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 2 | |||||
| Infect | 2 | |||||
| Aggro-Control | 3 | 5–3–1 | 62.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Izzet Tempo | 3 | 5–3–1 | 62.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Combo-Control | 12 | 3–17 | 15.0 | |||
| Curses | 1 | |||||
| Battle of Wits | 5 | 1–9 | 10.0 | |||
| Curious Niv-Mizzet | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Zur's Weirding | 2 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Mass Land Destruction | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Wildfire | 2 | 1–4 | 20.0 | |||
| Midrange | 20 | 11–28 | 28.2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Temur Ascendancy | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| The Rock | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Jund | 2 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Blink | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Graveyard Value | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Séance | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Enchantments Matter | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Hellion Whip | 3 | 3–8 | 27.3 | |||
| Lifegain Midrange | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Orzhov Midrange | 3 | 3–5 | 37.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Zur the Enchanter | 1 | |||||
| Ramp | 6 | 2–5 | 28.6 | |||
| Villainous Wealth | 2 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Reclamation at Wake | 3 | 0–2 | 0.0 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Cards Played First
- Afterlife
- Amass the Components
- Azor's Elocutors
- Blood Baron of Vizkopa
- Boggart Ram-Gang
- Call of the Full Moon
- Cartouche of Zeal
- Chancellor of the Spires
- Compulsive Research
- Consulate Dreadnought
- Consuming Aberration
- Consuming Fervor
- Daredevil Dragster
- Death Rattle
- Deny Reality
- Extract from Darkness
- Find // Finality
- Flayer of the Hatebound
- Fleetwheel Cruiser
- Gaze of Granite
- Giant Solifuge
- Ignorant Bliss
- Insidious Will
- Ishkanah, Grafwidow
- Izzet Charm
- Jori En, Ruin Diver
- Jungle Hollow
- Kazandu Refuge
- Kin-Tree Warden
- Leyline Prowler
- Magister Sphinx
- Maul Splicer
- Memory Erosion
- Mob Mentality
- Mossbridge Troll
- Offering to Asha
- Peacewalker Colossus
- Pull from the Deep
- Reaper of the Wilds
- Renegade Freighter
- Séance
- Seasons Past
- Siege Modification
- Speedway Fanatic
- Start Your Engines
- Tresserhorn Sinks
- Verduran Enchantress
- Veteran Motorist
- Vital Splicer
- Volcano Hellion