In the second saga of the Yu-Gi-Oh! epic, Duel Monsters is the world's most popular collectible card game-but to Yugi, it's the most dangerous game of all! Entering the Duel Monsters world championship, Yugi fights ruthless opponents like game designer Maximillion Pegasus and teenage multimillionaire Kaiba Seto, hoping to discover the origin of the game...and his own powers! Contains the original storyline of the first season of Yu-Gi-Oh!, including scenes too startling for TV!

The diabolical Player Killer, a collectible-card-gaming assassin, challenges Yugi to a duel! In the shadow of the Castle of Dark Illusions card, an army of lurking monsters hungers to steal Yugi's life points...and, if he loses, his actual life! But across the ocean in Japan, an even greater gaming force has been awakened. Kaiba, Yugi's number one rival, is back. Back to reclaim his fortune...back to get revenge on Pegasus...and back to make sure that this time when he fights Yugi, he wins!