Twelve year-old Davin Davara is having a pretty awesome weekend. Yesterday we interviewed him in the SHONEN JUMP Championship First-Timer article, where he shared his thoughts about his first-ever trip to a SHONEN JUMP Championship. He then went on to win the Dragon Duel tournament later that day, and just this afternoon he was one of four lucky Duelists selected by raffle to compete for a copy of “Dark End Dragon.” Davara defeated his first opponent in the “Dark End Dragon” playoffs, winning two Duels straight to move on to the finals.

His opponent? Former U.S. National Champion and SHONEN JUMP Championship winner Adam Corn. With Dueling prodigy Davara playing an aggressive Blackwing Deck, and Corn possibly packing his Lightsworn Vayu Deck, this was one Match we just had to feature. Read more…

Our final Match today features the LIGHT side of the Lightsworn against their DARK side, facing off for the title of SHONEN JUMP Championship winner. Morandice Black is playing a pure Lightsworn Deck, teching copies of “My Body As A Shield,” “Lightning Vortex,” and “Phantom of Chaos” in his Main Deck.

Bowling is playing a Twilight Deck with “Chaos Sorcerer” as his DARK monster of choice, plus “Burial From a Different Dimension” and “Shiny Black “C”.” The Sorcerers, Vortex, and “My Body As A Shields” should be especially good against a pure Lightsworn Deck, so they could be game-breakers. Read more…

Both Morandice Black and Henry Vi have made it here to the Top 4 with Lightsworn. One of these competitors was about to win a seat in the Finals and a copy of “Dark End Dragon.” The other would compete for a copy of Dark End in the third-place playoff. Read more…

In 2006, Ryan Spicer went undefeated in the Swiss Rounds of the first SHONEN JUMP Championship held in Austin! This weekend he’s repeated that feat, and now he’s three wins away from his second SHONEN JUMP Championship win. He’s playing the Alchemist / Chaos Deck he himself created.

But his opponent is Chris Bowling, another Texan great! The 2008 U.S. National Champion, Bowling finished 8-1 yesterday with his Twilight Deck. Of 3 Twilight Decks that made it to Day 2, Bowling is the only one still in contention. He teched two copies of “Shiny Black “C”” from Ancient Prophecy in his Main Deck, but those cards wouldn’t help him here. Read more…

Three Blackwing Decks made it to the Top 16 here, and right now we’re going to see two of them go head-to-head in a mirror Match! Benjamin Sager made waves yesterday as he included “Blackwing – Mistral the Silver Shield” in his Deck to secure a Day 2 finish, while Christian Lewis is packing Main Deck tricks like “Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer.” These Duelists duked it out yesterday in Round 6. Sager narrowly claimed victory, but Lewis was looking for a different outcome in this rematch. Read more…

For the ninth and final Round of this event, seated at Table 1 are two undefeated Duelists: Ryan Spicer and Andrew Fredella. Both are past SHONEN JUMP Championship winners, and Spicer is one of the ten bounty players in today’s event. Whoever won here would score 20 booster packs of Ancient Prophecy – either Spicer would keep his hoard or Fredella would walk away with a day’s worth of packs. Read more…

Lightsworn versus Blackwings may be the defining Match of this event, and we have an example of this head-to-head for this Match. Joe Torres is running Lightsworn, while Benjamin Sager is packing a teched out Blackwing build complete with “Blackwing – Mistral the Silver Shield.” “Mistral is Captain Amazing,” remarked Sager. “I can search all the way down the chain with “Black Whirlwind,” even Summoning Vayu to get Mistral. He’s a Tuner, he’s got 1800 DEF – it’s a great card.” Hopefully we’d see it in action here! Read more…

It’s Round 7, and both of these competitors are running Zombie Decks. Maurice Brantley is packing Destiny Hero Zombies, while his opponent, Tim Blair, is running Lightsworn Zombies, a Deck he insists isn’t very good but that remains undefeated with a 6-0 record. This one should be a lot of fun! Read more…

Joe Spanier is undefeated here in Round 6 with the DARK Zombie Deck we profiled earlier today. His opponent is former SHONEN JUMP Championship winner Andrew Fredella, who’s packing a Blackwing Deck that includes “Blackwing – Vayu the Emblem of Honor.” Both of these Decks are really well built, so it should be good to see them go head-to-head. Read more…

Last year at SHONEN JUMP Championship Houston, Jon Moore was victorious with a Six Samurai Deck. Today, Isaac Winslett is playing the same Deck, and is so far undefeated here in Round 4.

His opponent Rudy Maldonado hails from Del Rio, right here in Texas. He’s playing a “Blackwing – Vayu the Emblem of Honor” Deck that looks similar to the one that won in Orlando three weeks ago. Read more…