Gladiator Beast Deck

This deck revolves around its namesake monsters, the Gladiator Beasts from the Gladiator's Assault expansion. It works as a flexible toolbox deck, mainly focusing on summoning the Gladiator Beast needed and then tagging, owing to the common effect of all Gladiator Beasts to return the attacking-attacked monster to the Deck and then Special Summon another, triggering its effect in the process. It is important to focus on supporting and defending the Gladiator Beasts in the early stages of a Duel due to their relatively low stats (although some of them makes an exception as quite impressive). The main strength of the deck lies in the Fusion Monsters available to it, which when Summoned can and often will dominate the field. A minor but mandatory add-on made of Elemental Hero Prisma and Elemental Hero Stratos, supported by at least one copy of Reinforcement of the Army, gives the necessary speed to quickly summon the needed Fusion Monsters.

While incredibly powerful and versatile, noted for many excellent results in many Shonen Jump Tournaments and also being the one that won the last World Championship, this deck has fallen from grace due to the new dominance of Teleport Dark Armed decks, being itself usually too slow and vulnerable to the new, fast and potent Synchro Monsters. This is, however, its only known weakness, and thus with the proper skill, needed to hand it, this deck can and often will be devastating.

Monsters

 * Elemental Hero Prisma(2)
 * Elemental Hero Stratos
 * Gladiator Beast Bestiari(3)
 * Gladiator Beast Darius(2)
 * Gladiator Beast Hoplomus
 * Gladiator Beast Laquari(2)
 * Gladiator Beast Murmillo
 * Gladiator Beast Equeste(2)
 * Gladiator Beast Retiari(3)
 * Sangan
 * Test Tiger(2)

Spells

 * Cold Wave(3)
 * Book of Moon(2)
 * Reinforcement of the Army(2)
 * Smashing Ground
 * Monster Reborn

Traps

 * Gladiator Beast War Chariot
 * Solemn Judgment(3)
 * Bottomless Trap Hole(2)
 * Mirror Force
 * Torrential Tribute
 * Trap Dustshoot

Extra Deck

 * Gladiator Beast Gyzarus(3)
 * Gladiator Beast Heraklinos(3)