In the 2nd Shared Deck match we played my Obyra (Faeries) deck - my bro got a good start with 3 Devils coming at me (created by a Scheme), and I wasn't able to contain the pressure.

In the 1st Shared Deck match we played my Toxic Ajani (Infect) deck, and I managed to bring my bro down with a surprise attack on my 4th turn, resulting in 11 poison counters for him.

.. Finally on one turn my bro got Paradox Engine and I think he was going to draw the rest of his deck and get any combos in there out, so I conceded

.. My Vanguard card was one that allowed me to sac a permanent to bounce a creature, but it was difficult to know when to use it, since I struggled keeping my permanents on the board.

In the duel with Vanguard I played Inspirit, the interesting 3-color version of my Charge deck, but as often, the game was a struggle against my bro's control - he played his Azami (Wizard) deck and got a wizard that was bouncing my permanents while at same time drawing lots of cards with Azami..

In the next 2 vs 2, the one with Bounties, I was able to destroy one of the opposing deck's all lands with my Omo (Merfolk) deck's good old Tsunami after turning them into Islands, but it quickly recovered and my bro's Emmara deck got to play without any disruption, so GG

It looked like my bro was about to win the 2 vs 2, but I got lucky and got the Steward of Solidarity - Intruder Alarm combo which in theory meant I got infinite creatures

..on 1 turn but didn't notice it. We played an extra 10 minutes but weren't able to find a winner, so it was draw

He only had 10 cards left in his library, so I might have had a chance to mill him as well.

Indeed I hope none of the times when I cast Tome Scour instead of Vantress Gargoyle were important...

... which ruined my combo since I was then losing 2 life for every card I was drawing. But thanks to good old Zuran Orb I managed to hang on until time ran out, so it was a draw

.. (both of us could cast our own copy of the commander though). For some reason the match went much better for my bro than for me, he got some great synergy running, while I ended the match with just a land. The mode was pretty cool though and looks like it will become one of our regulars!

My bro was playing 2 of his best control decks, Wrenn and Six and Dack Fayden, so I conceded after maybe 5 turns

Duel with shared deck without add-on: 1st ever match with this new mode, we were both playing my coin-flipping deck Yusri, so we drew from the same library and had a shared graveyard..

2 vs 2 with Vanguard: Different than previous game. My bro got suitable Vanguard cards for his decks, while my cards seemed to just make my decks worse. Sapling of Colfenor (my Treefolk & Shamans deck) got one that gave its creatures haste but it had to bounce a creature each turn.

My life total was getting low though but managed to tutor for Academy Manufactor which produced Food tokens from which I got more life. If we counted right, got 20 Squirrel tokens for each life in the end. 😄 But didn't have to wait until next turn for my kill because found Blasting Station too. GG..

..which meant I got a treasure token for each life I paid.
That allowed me to cast Fecundity as well so then I also drew a card for each life. I then cast Doubling Season, which made the whole thing harder to calculate - I think I got 2 treasure tokens, 4 squirrel tokens and one card for each life

2 vs 2 with Vanguard: my bro's 1st game with Vanguard. Vanguard cards didn't really make any mark, except maybe for the fact that my Fungus deck Chatterfang's card allowed it to start the game with 38 life. I started the 4th turn with Chatterfang and 1 Fungus out, and tutored out Warren Soultrader..