- Gladiator's Assault
- Phantom Darkness
- Light of Destruction
- The Duelist Genesis
- Cross Road of Chaos
- Crimson Crisis
Gladiator Beasts is a Yu-Gi-Oh archetype that mainly used "tagging" strategy. Most of Gladiator Beasts monster have an effect to return to the deck right after battle phase and then special summon another Gladiator Beasts monster (it called tag out), plus with this special summon they gained more power with their effect being activated.
Most of Gladiator Beast are fairly weak, most of their support cards are designed to either protect them during battle (thus ensuring they can return to the Deck to Special Summon another Gladiator Beast Monster) or return unwanted Gladiator Beast cards in the player's Hand or Graveyard to the Deck, where they can be brought out more readily by the effects of the others. Among gladiator beast (non-fusion), Gladiator Beast Octavius is the most powerful one with 2500 attack power.
To fuse Gladiator Beasts, the key monster and any other Gladiator Beasts must be on the field to Special Summon the monster. Fusions between Gladiator Beasts do not require Polymerization. Instead, the Fusion Material Monsters are returned from the Field to the Deck. For this reason, Fusion between Gladiator Beasts is considered a form of Contact Fusion (also called Fusion Tag). Also, nearly every card in the archetype is capable of being returned to the Hand, Field, or Deck from the Graveyard. Since nearly every card in this Archetype can be accessed at will by the user or recycled in some way, a Gladiator Beast Deck is probably the most flexible one can make, even more so than a Hero Deck, for while a Duelist may be able to fuse almost any combination of Heroes, he must still rely on acquiring a fusion card to conduct it. The Gladiator Beasts are a mix of destruction, aggro, and toolbox tactics, making them very aggressive, strategic and fast paced in a themed Deck. It is this versatility which landed this deck as one of the top decks in the Shonen Jump Circuit.
Main Article: Crystal Beast; Yu-Gi-Oh! Archetype Cards
