I picked up the Duel Decks Anthology, which has reprints of the first four Duel Decks, as well as a recent Duel Deck, Jace Vs Vraska.
This product does not contain the Jace vs. Vraska Duel deck. I am not sure if you're saying it does or that you picked it up in addition to Anthologies but to be clear Anthologies only contains the 4 Original Duel Decks (Goblins vs. Elves, Jace vs. Chandra, Divine vs. Demonic and Garruk vs. Liliana).
I did however mean to include Anthologies in my post as well, for around $100 you will get 8 very playable decks that can make for a lot of great gameplay.
The one card in Boss Sligh that will be a little pricey is Stoke the Flames (around $5 each), you could sub it with Lightning Strike but the 1 extra damage from Stoke can really mean a lot. The $20 playset of Stoke makes up the majority of the maindeck cost because most of the other cards are commons and uncommons that run $1 or less.. Sideboard cards you might want to leave out are Goblin Rabblemaster (around $15 each) and Eidolon of the Great Revel (around $6 each).
EDH seems like a very complex format to start someone on. There are so many interactions that lead to truly puzzling rules questions. I like the idea of B/W Warriors in standard I think that deck runs right around $30-40. You could also build something like a mono G ramp deck for pretty cheap maybe around $50-60. They are pretty easy to learn and tend to do things that a lot of newer players like to do like pump out a huge beast quickly and beat down. You can also do mono R aggro for super cheap, also known as "Boss Sligh" (link here http://sales.starcitygames.com//deckdatabase/displaydeck.php?DeckID=74326) if you leave out a couple of the expensive sideboard options the deck would run you less than $40. Those three decks alone would get you all playing and would make for some pretty interesting gameplay among yourselves and if you wanted to you could all go to an FNM and at least bring decks that can keep up. Boss Sligh just won my FNM last night.
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This product does not contain the Jace vs. Vraska Duel deck. I am not sure if you're saying it does or that you picked it up in addition to Anthologies but to be clear Anthologies only contains the 4 Original Duel Decks (Goblins vs. Elves, Jace vs. Chandra, Divine vs. Demonic and Garruk vs. Liliana).
I did however mean to include Anthologies in my post as well, for around $100 you will get 8 very playable decks that can make for a lot of great gameplay.