Part of a collection of 3 Starter Decks: Yugi, Kaiba and Joey. They were designed to be easy to understand and balanced within each other. They share 11 generic cards, each with a specific functionality in order to give the decks a way out of roadblocks, as well as an introduction to each different card type. The shared cards are 4 Spell cards (Tribute to The Doomed, De-Spell, Monster Reincarnation and Banner of Courage) and 7 Trap cards (Jar of Greed, Dust Tornado, Trap Hole, Magic Jammer, Seven Tools of The Bandit and Birthright).
They're thematic to each duelist but some of their iconic cards are not present in order to balance these decks properly.
They were initially made to be a choice (between the 3) to the player, at the start of a videogame.
This is Yugi's Deck.
It contains more Spell cards than any other card type in the Deck, and consequently has a smaller Monster card line-up.
The card that was chosen to boost this Deck is Dark Hole, but cards like Brain Control and Swords of Revealing Light are not too left behind.
Its Side Deck has possible options for the player to switch around, in case the Banlist of the format hits this deck (respectively, Dark Hole, Brain Control and Magician of Faith) and a Ritual Monster of his own.