No, your commander does not count as part of your deck when building a Commander deck.
No, the commander does not count as one of the 100 cards in a Commander deck.
The commander color identity of the deck I am currently building is blue and black.
In a planeswalker commander deck, the commander must be a planeswalker card. The deck must contain exactly 100 cards, including the commander. Only one copy of each card (except basic lands) is allowed. The deck can only use cards from the commander's color identity.
In MTG Commander format, the color rules for building a deck are that you can only include cards that are within the color identity of your commander. This means you can only include cards that are the same color as your commander, any color within your commander's color identity, or colorless cards.
In Magic: The Gathering, a colorless commander deck must have a colorless commander, and all cards in the deck must be colorless or have a colorless color identity. The deck can include artifacts, lands, and colorless creatures, but no cards with colored mana symbols.
In Magic: The Gathering, a Commander deck is specifically designed for the Commander format, which has its own rules and card restrictions. However, you can use the individual cards from a Commander deck to build a standard constructed deck, as long as you adhere to the deck-building rules of the standard format. Just make sure to follow the specific requirements regarding card legality and deck size for the format you are playing.
No, you cannot have a colorless commander in a Magic: The Gathering deck.
A Commander deck should have 99 lands.
A Commander deck typically includes 36 lands.
In MTG Commander, each deck has a color identity based on the colors of the cards in the deck. A card's color identity includes all colors in its mana cost and any color symbols in its rules text. Players can only include cards in their deck that match the color identity of their commander. This rule impacts deck building strategies by limiting the cards that can be included, requiring players to carefully choose cards that work well together within the color identity of their commander.
Color identity in MTG Commander decks is significant because it determines which cards a player can include in their deck. Each Commander has a specific color identity based on the colors of mana symbols in its casting cost and abilities. Players can only include cards in their deck that match the color identity of their Commander, which adds strategic depth and diversity to deck building.
A commander deck typically includes 35-40 lands.