What makes it so special? Would you believe me if I told you it's a play about two wandering old men who stand around on the side of a country road, confused and bickering, for two days, and nothing really happens? And that it's funny? Well, you should, 'cause that's the play. Many famous actors have played the lead roles of Estragon and Vladimir over the years I wish I could have been there to see Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen play them in 2009, or-my heart!-Robin Williams and Steve Martin back in 1988. Waiting for Godot is one of the most influential and important pieces of theatre in the last century, if not the most, in my humble opinion. Suffice it to say that Magic decks, particularly in the Commander format, are extremely flexible in providing us modes of expression that include creating unique tributes to movies, poems, books, paintings-or plays. I've spent a lot of time talking about the connection between Magic, art, and creative expression, and I won't rehash it here. You can skip to the decklist below if you'd like, but I promise you'll enjoy it more if you come to it with a better understanding of this stuff. The longer answer to why we're going to build an inefficient deck that can't cast its commander requires us to go into what Waiting for Godot is and how absurdism operates. Why? The short answer is that, for this deck, we're channeling Samuel Beckett's play, the poster child for absurdist theatre and art in general, the astoundingly bleak Waiting for Godot. How inefficient? Well, we won't be able to cast our commander. It actually takes effort to make a deck that is clunky and non-synergistic, which is what we're going to do today: we're going to make one of the most inefficient decks you've ever seen while being able to still pull out a win. This could be either good or bad depending on who you ask, but it's a phenomenon that is common in pods across the world. With every set comes a few cards that inevitably advance our decks' goals a little more efficiently than we were able to before, or start the wheels a'turnin' quicker than ever, so as time goes on, our Commander decks become more optimized, more efficient, and faster. With new Magic sets being released faster than Now That's What I Call Music albums-I think we're on #89 of that music series now, no joke-hundreds and hundreds of new cards are released into the card pool every year. Welcome to Flavor of the Month, where we build decks flavor first! Beckett's Absurdist Classic is Back, in Magic Form!

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