Volume 17 in the popular Yu-Gi-Oh! manga series following the adventures of Yugi Mutou as he uses games designed by Pegasus, to fight various villains.

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! On an airship flying high above Japan, Yugi fights for his life against Bakura's fiendish occult deck! When Bakura's Ouija Board spells out "DEATH," Yugi will be obliterated forever...and nothing can stop it! Then, Jonouchi fights Marik, the evil leader of the Ghouls! Or does he? Unbeknownst to our heroes, Marik has been impersonated by his henchman Rishid, a fanatic duelist with a deck full of Egyptian monsters, and a past as dark as Marik's own...