One thing for sure, you can't have a deck that counters every deck, and there's always some decks that counter your deck. And even if you have a deck that has an answer for everything, you still need draw power and draw luck to get the exact answer the moment you need it.
The pilot is important, but luck is just as important, if not more. You can't control how your deck is being shuffled and for god knows why all your early game cards could be at the bottom of your deck at the beginning. So if you ask me, in order of importance, I think DECK comes first, and then your LUCK, and finally the PILOT. That's why the same deck can be powerful and still suck, because you need a good player and LOTS of luck. Some players don't want to acknowledge the luck factor because they want to feel superior in terms of skills, but as I said you can be a very skilled player but you can't beat the game engine if your early game cards are all shuffled to the bottom of your deck. You can have a lot of early game cards to counter this, but then your late game will suffer. You can have something like
Glass Chalice of Knowing, but it comes at the cost of tempo and card slots, and limited to Priests.
The best way to counter everything imho, is to just suck up losses and know that they are part of the game, and to be the best player, well, you need the perfect/near-perfect deck, practice a whole lot and TONS of luck.
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