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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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 14 weeks, 5 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 74 | 164–82 | 66.7 | 9 | 30 | 4 | 2155 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 6 | 22–9 | 71.0 | 2 | 5 | |
| AggroSlide | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Legends Aggro | 5 | 19–7 | 73.1 | 2 | 4 | |
| Boros Legends Aggro | 5 | 19–7 | 73.1 | 2 | 4 | |
| Combo | 11 | 13–11 | 54.2 | 0 | 2 | |
| Storm | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Necro Combo | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mono Green Stormless Storm | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Metalwork Colossus | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Anvil Colossus | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Izzet Ascension | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Tibalt's Trickery | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Belcher | 2 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Midnight Mass | 3 | 5–2 | 71.4 | |||
| Control | 33 | 89–41 | 68.5 | 6 | 17 | 1 |
| Dimir Control | 2 | 2–2 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Azorius Control | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Mardu Control | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Mono White Control | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Cycling Control | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Astral Slide | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Orzhov Control | 24 | 80–31 | 72.1 | 6 | 15 | 1 |
| Prison | 2 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Enchantress | 2 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Aggro-Combo | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Burn | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Necro Burn | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Izzet Spells | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Combo-Control | 5 | 15–5 | 75.0 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Battle of Wits | 1 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
| Resurgent Belief | 4 | 11–3 | 78.6 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Midrange | 13 | 17–9 | 65.4 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Blink | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Allies | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Orzhov Allies | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Mono Black Midrange | 9 | 15–7 | 68.2 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Necro Midrange | 9 | 15–7 | 68.2 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Ordealbreak | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Enigmatic Incarnation | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Fires of Invention | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Ramp | 4 | 2–5 | 28.6 | 0 | 1 |
Cards
Colors Played
Head to Head
Seasons
Unique Cards Played
- Cosmic Epiphany
- Cyclone
- Gavony Trapper
- Geth, Thane of Contracts
- Haunted Library
- Invulnerability
- Kheru Dreadmaw
- Laboratory Drudge
- Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
- Llanowar Envoy
- Meteor Swarm
- Mount Velus Manticore
- Mystic Skull
- Nightfire Giant
- Nova Pentacle
- Rimewind Taskmage
- Sharae of Numbing Depths
- Steamcore Scholar
- Tenth District Hero
- The Dragon-Kami Reborn
- Woodland Acolyte
Cards Played First
- Abuelo, Ancestral Echo
- Academy Loremaster
- Banish into Fable
- Banishing Slash
- Behold the Unspeakable
- Besotted Knight
- Borne Upon a Wind
- Bramble Familiar
- Brokers Charm
- Burning Sun's Fury
- Callous Bloodmage
- Charming Prince
- Chupacabra Echo
- Clay-Fired Bricks
- Cloudsteel Kirin
- Coastal Bulwark
- Conduit of Worlds
- Converter Beast
- Cosmic Epiphany
- Curse of Silence
- Cyclone
- Debt to the Kami
- Destroy Evil
- Doomskar
- Dreadhound
- Echoing Decay
- Energy Refractor
- Extinction Event
- Extraplanar Lens
- Fallaji Archaeologist
- Flooded Grove
- Floriferous Vinewall
- Flourishing Bloom-Kin
- Flow of Knowledge
- Gavony Trapper
- Geth, Thane of Contracts
- Gifts Ungiven
- Glimpse of Nature
- Grabby Giant
- Guardian of Ghirapur
- Halo Scarab
- Haunted Library
- Helping Hand
- Hidden Courtyard
- Hidden Necropolis
- Honeymoon Hearse
- Hurkyl, Master Wizard
- Ill-Timed Explosion
- Invulnerability
- Kaya, Orzhov Usurper
- Kaya's Guile
- Kess, Dissident Mage
- Kheru Dreadmaw
- Laboratory Drudge
- Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
- Leyline of Abundance
- Llanowar Envoy
- Ludevic, Necrogenius
- Make Your Move
- Mechanized Warfare
- Meteor Swarm
- Mizzix's Mastery
- Mount Velus Manticore
- Mu Yanling, Sky Dancer
- Mystic Skull
- Needlethorn Drake
- Nightfire Giant
- Nova Pentacle
- Over the Edge
- Papercraft Decoy
- Phosphorescent Feast
- Power Artifact
- Proft's Eidetic Memory
- Queen Kayla bin-Kroog
- Radiant Epicure
- Restless Vents
- Rimewind Taskmage
- Sauron, the Dark Lord
- Sharae of Numbing Depths
- Shield-Wall Sentinel
- Snapdax, Apex of the Hunt
- Soul Search
- Spell Queller
- Spring-Loaded Sawblades
- Steamcore Scholar
- Stern Lesson
- Sunbird Standard
- Tenth District Hero
- The Dragon-Kami Reborn
- The Elder Dragon War
- The Witch's Vanity
- Thing in the Ice
- Uncharted Haven
- Vengeful Devil
- Voracious Hydra
- Weakstone's Subjugation
- Witness Protection
- Woodland Acolyte