jaden/judai DOES own the e hero cards, he won terra firma in a tournament I believe. later he builds a deck around masked heroes because he wasn't the FIRST e hero user. he still uses e heroes.
In the manga, Judai uses the deck of his mentor Koyo Hibiki who was a pro duelist who won that card during a tournament. Later on, he believed he wasnt worthy to use his deck anymore due to circumstances and built a new deck for himself which were the masked heroes.
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