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 1 week.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 68 | 191–115 | 62.4 | 4 | 27 | 2 | 2174 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 13 | 36–19 | 65.5 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Mono Green Stompy | 3 | 8–6 | 57.1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Elves | 10 | 28–13 | 68.3 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Combo | 3 | 7–7 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Jokulhaups Combo | 2 | 7–4 | 63.6 | 0 | 1 | |
| Soulflayer | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Control | 22 | 49–41 | 54.4 | 0 | 8 | |
| Esper Control | 7 | 11–10 | 52.4 | 0 | 1 | |
| Dimir Control | 2 | 6–5 | 54.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Grixis Control | 8 | 26–15 | 63.4 | 0 | 5 | |
| Stax | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Ponza | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Cycling Control | 2 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 22 | 74–33 | 69.2 | 2 | 13 | 1 |
| Izzet Spells | 22 | 74–33 | 69.2 | 2 | 13 | 1 |
| Combo-Control | 3 | 8–6 | 57.1 | |||
| Mass Land Destruction | 3 | 8–6 | 57.1 | |||
| Wildfire | 3 | 8–6 | 57.1 | |||
| Midrange | 5 | 12–9 | 57.1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Jeskai Midrange | 2 | 7–3 | 70.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Zur the Enchanter | 3 | 5–6 | 45.5 | 0 | 1 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
Cards Played First
- Balmor, Battlemage Captain
- Birthday Escape
- Cavalier of Gales
- Chart a Course
- Domestication
- Drana and Linvala
- Dream Eater
- Flay Essence
- Garruk, Primal Hunter
- Hearth Elemental
- Infernal Darkness
- Kothophed, Soul Hoarder
- Lorthos, the Tidemaker
- Meglonoth
- Misthollow Griffin
- Out of Air
- Phantom Interference
- Ral, Izzet Viceroy
- Scatter to the Winds
- Scroll of Isildur
- Spinerock Knoll
- Stoic Sphinx
- There and Back Again
- Workshop Warchief
- Zur's Weirding