You can cheat Absalom through Leader effect, so you have a reliable answer to remove the opponents Characters as long as you have the cost-reduction cards to put the target in range
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they also have a textured foil treatment too, making them feel extra special in addition to looking great
I dont know the Pauper card pool well enough to know what an artifact can do for a non-Affinity deck, but if you also play the basically free Arcums Astrolabe, you are getting to relevant artifact density for some small payoff
Full disclosure, I was absolutely stumped on how to approach this build
Rakdos Adventures The other side of the spectrum is the Rakdos Adventures build, which eschews Edgewall Innkeeper (obviously) but plays Lucky Clover