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, 4 days.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 | 104–30 | 77.6 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 2174 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| AggroSlide | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Combo | 1 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
| Actual Twin | 1 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
| Izzet Twin | 1 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
| Control | 9 | 31–8 | 79.5 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Azorius Control | 9 | 31–8 | 79.5 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Cawblade | 8 | 26–8 | 76.5 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Aggro-Control | 15 | 59–16 | 78.7 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| Mono Blue Tempo | 12 | 48–11 | 81.4 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| Mono Blue Librarians | 11 | 44–10 | 81.5 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| Izzet Spells | 3 | 11–5 | 68.8 | 1 | 1 | |
| Combo-Control | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
| Battle of Wits | 2 | 4–2 | 66.7 | 0 | 1 | |
| Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Rakdos Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 |
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