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.

How do I get started with Magic Online?

Check out the guide to Magic Online.
Which cards are legal?

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.
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
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.
How do I enter the league?

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.

Current League

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How do I enter a tournament?

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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What happens if a card goes above 2¢? How does rotation work? When is the next rotation? How long are cards legal for?

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 day, 21 hours.

Congratulations to vagstor, winner of The Penny Dreadful 500 (Season 35)

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Archetype Tree

Archetype	# Decks	Record	Win %	①	⑧	5–0s
Aggro	2879	5194–4663	52.7	32	247	128
Voltron	82	145–129	52.9	0	4	1
Hexproof	10	15–12	55.6	0	1
Equipment Aggro	23	34–36	48.6	0	2	1
Hateful Auras	48	93–79	54.1	0	1

Decks

Cards

Matchups

Archetype	Record	Win %
Aggro	31–29	51.7
Mono Black Aggro	2–1	66.7
Heroic	3–1	75.0
Mono White Heroic	0–1	0.0
Mono Red Blitzkrieg	2–0	100.0
Boros Heroic	1–0	100.0
Red Deck Wins	7–7	50.0
Tokens	0–1	0.0
Mono White Tokens	0–1	0.0
White Weenie	3–1	75.0
Quest for the Holy Relic	1–1	50.0
Elves	0–3	0.0
Werewolves	1–0	100.0
Selesnya Little Kid	1–0	100.0
Zombies	1–0	100.0
Merfolk	3–5	37.5
Artifact Aggro	6–6	50.0
Affinity	3–2	60.0
Salvage Titan	1–0	100.0
Tempered Steel	2–4	33.3
Voltron	2–2	50.0
Equipment Aggro	1–1	50.0
Hateful Auras	1–1	50.0
Knights	0–1	0.0
AggroSlide	2–1	66.7
Combo	15–29	34.1
Storm	5–11	31.3
Dragonstorm	1–2	33.3
Simic Storm	1–1	50.0
Grixis Tendrils	1–0	100.0
Izzet Storm	2–8	20.0
Reanimator	1–1	50.0
Traditional Reanimator	1–1	50.0
Necrotic Ooze Combo	1–2	33.3
Warp World	1–1	50.0
Temur Glimpse	1–0	100.0
Four Color Glimpse	0–1	0.0
Hypergenesis	0–3	0.0
Jeskai Ascendancy	0–2	0.0
Jeskai Jeskai Ascendancy	0–2	0.0
Myr Incubator	0–1	0.0
Heartless Summoning Combo	0–1	0.0
Taking Turns	1–1	50.0
Soulflayer	0–2	0.0
Reanim8 Rack	0–2	0.0
Breakfast	0–3	0.0
Oops All Spells	0–3	0.0
Dredge	1–1	50.0
Polymorph	1–0	100.0
Intruder Alarm	2–0	100.0
Restore Balance	1–0	100.0
Control	19–15	55.9
Mono Black Control	0–1	0.0
Esper Control	2–2	50.0
Mono Blue Control	0–2	0.0
Dimir Control	1–0	100.0
Azorius Control	1–4	20.0
Cawblade	0–1	0.0
Turbo Fog	0–2	0.0
Grixis Control	1–0	100.0
Stax	4–1	80.0
Ponza	3–2	60.0
Bant Control	2–0	100.0
Pox	3–0	100.0
Seasons Past Control	0–1	0.0
Prison	2–0	100.0
Enchantress	1–0	100.0
Aggro-Combo	16–11	59.3
Aristocrats	0–2	0.0
Rakdos Aristocrats	0–1	0.0
Boros Bombardment	0–1	0.0
Burn	5–2	71.4
Infect	1–0	100.0
Blazing Shoal Infect	1–0	100.0
Trickbind Dreadnought	8–4	66.7
Mono Blue Dreadnought	8–4	66.7
Hushnought	0–2	0.0
Liquimetal Fishing	1–0	100.0
Combo Goblins	1–1	50.0
Goblin Persist	1–1	50.0
Aggro-Control	9–2	81.8
Izzet Tempo	2–1	66.7
Ninjas	3–1	75.0
Izzet Spells	4–0	100.0
Combo-Control	9–11	45.0
Curses	3–2	60.0
Battle of Wits	0–1	0.0
Lich's Mastery	1–0	100.0
Solar Flare	0–2	0.0
Plasma Swans	0–1	0.0
Mass Land Destruction	2–5	28.6
Jokulhaups Control	2–5	28.6
Grixis Jokulhaups Control	0–2	0.0
Jeskai Jokulhaups Control	0–1	0.0
Temur Jokulhaups Control	0–1	0.0
Jund Jokulhaups Control	1–0	100.0
Mardu Jokulhaups Control	1–1	50.0
Resurgent Belief	3–0	100.0
Midrange	40–26	60.6
The Rock	1–0	100.0
Abzan Midrange	1–1	50.0
Selesnya Midrange	2–0	100.0
Selesnya Value Town	1–0	100.0
Jund	6–3	66.7
Blink	1–1	50.0
Fake-Rack	2–1	66.7
Mardu Midrange	2–0	100.0
Vampires	1–2	33.3
Mono Black Vampires	1–2	33.3
Rakdos Midrange	1–1	50.0
Big Red	0–1	0.0
Mono Black Midrange	10–7	58.8
Mono Black Devotion	3–1	75.0
Dimir Midrange	0–1	0.0
Toughness Matters	0–1	0.0
Lifegain Midrange	2–0	100.0
Martyr's Grace	2–0	100.0
Orzhov Midrange	1–1	50.0
Heartless Summoning Stompy	1–0	100.0
Party	1–0	100.0
Hero of Precinct One	2–3	40.0
Mardu Hero	0–1	0.0
Naya Hero	1–2	33.3
Boros Hero	1–0	100.0
Simic Snow	0–1	0.0
Artifact Midrange	1–0	100.0
Coinflips	1–0	100.0
Illness in the Ranks	1–0	100.0
Ramp	6–6	50.0
Rofellos Ramp	0–1	0.0
Wild Pair	0–1	0.0
Cloudpost Ramp	2–4	33.3
Greenpost	2–4	33.3
Defenders	1–0	100.0
Carth Superfriends	1–1	50.0
Applejacks	1–0	100.0