Dreamhack Summer: A Look at RDU’s Decks
by JR Cook - 10 years ago show comments
Dreamhack Summer was the biggest Hearthstone tournament that the world has seen to date. With a 256 person open entry tournament and a 16 person group stage (4 of which were qualifiers from out of the BYOC with the other 12 being seeded invitees) along with a prize pool totaling $25,000, it’s no surprise that people have continued to talk about the tournament long after the last game has finished and the stream has ended. Over the course of the weekend and into this past Monday, we saw high tier play and some truly innovative decks. We’ve taken the last few days to show you the top 4 and their deck lists from this tourney and today we end it with the winner of the tournament.
Today we’re going to look at the grand finals winner of Dreamhack Summer, RDU, and his winning decks. Dreamhack Summer was a great event for Hearthstone which was unfortunately tarnished by some idiots on RDU’s friends list. Controversy aside, RDU won the event and these are the deck lists he used.
Freeze Mage
The Freeze Mage – the deck that is seeing lots of ladder play now after he completely destroyed Amaz in the finals with this deck. The funny thing is, this deck didn’t do so well in the rest of the tournament and only saw real success in the finals. The freeze mage is a tough deck to play as it’s all about being patient and also being a bit lucky as you need certain cards at the right time to pull it off. You need to be able to save your burn for your opponent, you need Alexstraza to get your opponent to 15 to finish them off turn 10 or 11. To get to that point you need to not only freeze your opponent’s minions from attacking you but also hopefully get an Ice Block to extend you one extra turn to finish off your opponent.
Needless to say though, the deck has rejuvenated interest in mage and made it at least somewhat viable again.
RDU Freeze Mage
Class: Mage
Cards sorted by Low Cost
Mage (21)
- Ice Lance x2
- Mirror Image x2
- Frostbolt x2
- Arcane Intellect x2
- Frost Nova x2
- Ice Barrier
- Ice Block x2
- Vaporize
- Fireball x2
- Blizzard x2
- Flamestrike x2
- Pyroblast
Neutral (9)
Midrange Shaman
Probably the most unique deck played in the top 4 after Amaz’s Priest deck. It’s a variation of the midrange shaman decks but it doesn’t use Unbound Elemental. The deck has staples such as Earth Shock, Lightning Bolt, Flametongue Totem, Feral Spirit, Hex, Lighting Storm, and Fire Elemental. It relies on controlling the board early and getting some of your heavy hitters out there to beat down your opponent. If you can combo Rockbiter Weapon with Al’Akir or Doomhammer then your opponent is going to have a bad time.
RDU Shaman
Class: Shaman
Cards sorted by Low Cost
Shaman (20)
- Earth Shock x2
- Lightning Bolt x2
- Rockbiter Weapon x2
- Flametongue Totem x2
- Feral Spirit x2
- Hex x2
- Lava Burst
- Lightning Storm x2
- Mana Tide Totem
- Doomhammer
- Fire Elemental x2
- Al’Akir the Windlord
Neutral (10)
- Argent Squire x2
- Bloodmage Thalnos
- Harvest Golem x2
- Chillwind Yeti
- Defender of Argus
- Azure Drake x2
- Argent Commander
Miracle Rogue
Oh look, it’s a miracle rogue deck. If you haven’t seen this by now then you haven’t played a single game of Hearthstone. Go download Hearthstone and play a game, now you know how this deck works as you watched your opponent draw and play about 20 cards while you sat there and read War and Peace.
RDU Miracle Rogue
Class: Rogue
Cards sorted by Low Cost
Rogue (22)
- Backstab x2
- Preparation x2
- Shadowstep x2
- Cold Blood
- Conceal
- Deadly Poison x2
- Blade Flurry
- Eviscerate x2
- Sap x2
- Shiv x2
- Fan of Knives
- Edwin VanCleef
- SI:7 Agent x2
- Assassin’s Blade
Neutral (8)
I am loving his shaman deck right now. I haven’t played as much as I like but lately I have been going flawless in ranked. Went from 15 no stars to 12 full stars before I had to stop. I don’t have Thalnos so I threw a kobald in there.