In all cases, its possible to build your deck to have an advantage in the tug of war (combine Flailing Soldier with Strip Mine, or play Drooling Ogre as a sideboard card against artifact-free decks), but in general, the winning move is to never play the game in the first place
Muxus, Goblin Grandee Muxus, Goblin Grandee is leveraged over Krenko, Mob Boss despite them both being a 4-of in Emma Handy's wonderful Goblin deck because without Muxus, the deck would not have a taller finisher when going wide, and thus it would flounder against stax effects that discourage attacking
Are you going to pick up any of the Fallout Commander Decks
Similarly, the difference in black borders on a real card (left) and a fake (right) are pretty striking when looking at the green dot on the card back, but that's just one thing we're interested in