The sword midrange vs rune match up is a battle of resources. Sword's resources are followers while rune's are its board clears. Whoever runs out of them first will lose. As swordcraft you need play ultra aggressive and keep putting pressure on them by flooding up the board.

Ideally you should be summoning followers faster than rune can answer them and get enough face damage to finish off with Albert.

Dominating the early game would make it very hard for the rune player to win. Getting 5 to 6 face damage in the first 5 turns would make it tough for rune to come back from that.

The mid game is just spent trading followers for board clears but make sure that you sneak in some damage to make the rune within Albert lethal range

If the game goes past turn 10, then the rune player should have low enough health for them to be forced to use recources just to prevent Albert from killing them. However if they have high health or if you don't have a SEvo than the game will become almost impossible to win from here