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Dreamhack Summer: A Look at RDU’s Decks

by - 10 years ago

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.

RDU

 

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)

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)

Neutral (10)

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)

Neutral (8)


JR Cook

JR has been writing for fan sites since 2000 and has been involved with Blizzard Exclusive fansites since 2003. JR was also a co-host for 6 years on the Hearthstone podcast Well Met! He helped co-found BlizzPro in 2013.


0 responses to “Dreamhack Summer: A Look at RDU’s Decks”

  1. Narf says:

    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.