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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | 134–59 | 69.4 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 2174 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 3 | 7–6 | 53.8 | 0 | 1 | |
| Tokens | 3 | 7–6 | 53.8 | 0 | 1 | |
| Orzhov Tokens | 3 | 7–6 | 53.8 | 0 | 1 | |
| Control | 4 | 5–3 | 62.5 | |||
| Mono Blue Control | 1 | 1–0 | 100.0 | |||
| Azorius Control | 3 | 4–3 | 57.1 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 40 | 116–46 | 71.6 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| Mono Blue Tempo | 36 | 110–41 | 72.8 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| Mono Blue Librarians | 32 | 98–35 | 73.7 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Izzet Spells | 3 | 4–4 | 50.0 | |||
| Dimir Tempo | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Midrange | 2 | 3–3 | 50.0 | |||
| Blink | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Dimir Midrange | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Ramp | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Field Ramp | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 |
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