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 5 days, 16 hours.
Decks
Record
| # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 139 | 177–234 | 43.1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1507 |
Achievements
Archetype Tree
| Archetype | # Decks | Record | Win % | ① | ⑧ | 5–0s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aggro | 18 | 31–30 | 50.8 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Red Deck Wins | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Goblins | 2 | 0–5 | 0.0 | |||
| Elves | 11 | 25–16 | 61.0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Artifact Aggro | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
| Affinity | 3 | 4–5 | 44.4 | |||
| Madness | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Golgari Madness | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Combo | 42 | 74–72 | 50.7 | 2 | ||
| Storm | 6 | 8–7 | 53.3 | |||
| Citadel Storm | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| High Tide | 1 | 2–2 | 50.0 | |||
| Reanimator | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Traditional Reanimator | 1 | 1–3 | 25.0 | |||
| Myr Incubator | 1 | 0–4 | 0.0 | |||
| Eggs | 2 | 1–6 | 14.3 | |||
| Blazing Shoal Combo | 3 | 3–4 | 42.9 | |||
| Breakfast | 2 | 5–3 | 62.5 | 1 | ||
| Oops All Spells | 2 | 5–3 | 62.5 | 1 | ||
| Oops All Lands | 7 | 18–13 | 58.1 | |||
| Dredge | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Ad Nauseam | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Tibalt's Trickery | 1 | 3–2 | 60.0 | |||
| Restore Balance | 8 | 18–9 | 66.7 | 1 | ||
| Gyruda | 5 | 12–11 | 52.2 | |||
| Belcher | 1 | 1–2 | 33.3 | |||
| Control | 51 | 47–77 | 37.9 | 1 | 2 | |
| Cloudpost Control | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Mono White Cloudpost Control | 1 | 1–1 | 50.0 | |||
| Pox | 23 | 15–35 | 30.0 | |||
| Prison | 27 | 31–41 | 43.1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Enchantress | 16 | 27–26 | 50.9 | 1 | 2 | |
| Aggro-Combo | 2 | 2–3 | 40.0 | |||
| Burn | 1 | 0–2 | 0.0 | |||
| Infect | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Simic Infect | 1 | 2–1 | 66.7 | |||
| Aggro-Control | 5 | 5–9 | 35.7 | |||
| Izzet Tempo | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Dimir Tempo | 4 | 5–6 | 45.5 | |||
| Combo-Control | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Mindcrank | 1 | 4–1 | 80.0 | |||
| Midrange | 11 | 6–17 | 26.1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Graveyard Value | 4 | 1–8 | 11.1 | |||
| -1/-1 Counters | 1 | 0–3 | 0.0 | |||
| Fake-Rack | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Dimir Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Lifegain Midrange | 1 | 0–1 | 0.0 | |||
| Artifact Midrange | 3 | 5–3 | 62.5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Ramp | 9 | 8–25 | 24.2 | |||
| Rofellos Ramp | 2 | 4–6 | 40.0 | |||
| Cloudpost Ramp | 7 | 4–19 | 17.4 | |||
| Greenpost | 7 | 4–19 | 17.4 |