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Sep 8, 2012 -- 6:42AM, robvalue wrote:

Although beating the Suntail encounter is an easy enough way to unlock cards, I'd like to offer my own experience for anyone still unlocking cards. I have found the best opponents are:

• #1 Prodigal Pyromancer encounter
• #2 Discard / Rise from the Grave encounter
• #3 Howling Mine / Fog Bank / Mana Leak encounter 

Depending on which deck you are unlocking, I've found one of these to be a really quick way to win.  Get the premium unlocks first, then strip down to 60 cards using the cheapest possible cards you can, tuned to beat one of the encounters in particular. After each unlock or two, go back and take out the least appropriate or expensive cards to make wins even quicker. Some decks can work well against more than one of these, but here's my picks:

• Garruk: #3 Load up on trample creatures to go over the top of fog banks. Prey Upon cheaply kills them and Primal Bellow easily sneaks around the Mana Leaks.
• Liliana: #1 You have a million and one ways to kill the Pyros, often gaining life at the same time. Pump creatures quickly seal the game.
• Talrand: #2 Remove all creatures bigger than 3 power, and load up with as many non-creature spells as possible. He cannot raise anything decent or use your spells like Talrand's Invocation against you, and you easily out draw him. You can also bounce back what he steals to your hand.
• Yeva: #3 All you need is Taunting Elf . This will then force every Fog Bank to block him every turn, letting everything else through. He survives to do it all again over and over.
• Odric: #2 Like Talrand, focus on cheap creatures and token generating spells which cannot be used against you. Easy pickings.
• Jace: #2 Use pure mill strategy. Telemin Performance and Grindstone are instant win cards against this guy [thanks Splattercat!] Your creatures aren't scary to be used against you, some could even help ( Dreamborn Muse ).
• Exalted: #3 You can easily outspeed the Fog Banks with lots of quick creatures, and Tormented Soul wrecks him. Once unlocked Spirit Mantle is an easy win too.
• Goblins: #2 Concentrate on fast creatures, direct damage and removal. He can only raise feeble blockers which wil barely slow you down.
• Chandra: #2 Again lots of cheap creatures but mostly just direct damage which is of no use to the necromancer.
• Ajani: #1 Ajani's Pridemate owns him up, especially if it follows Soul Warden . It's almost unfair. Any toughness boosters put your creatures quickly out of reach, and life gain easily stops you from losing. Quickly he resorts to chump blocking.

Hope that helps someone out there!

Realize this is old but I think the best way to unlock Liliana is actually vs #3. Just throw both copies of Underworld Dreams in...you'll be glad you did Also, Odric vs #3 for the same reason you have Yeva listed. Odric works just as well against fogbanks as taunting elf and you will draw him soon enough with all the mines.