The Gladiator Beasts looks like futuristic versions of the ancient Roman Colosseum slave-warriors, and consist of many different Attributes and Types. The types consist of Beasts, Beast-Warriors, Winged-Beast, Dinosaurs, one Rock, one Aqua, two Fish and one Reptile. With a few exceptions, all non-Fusion "Gladiator Beasts" but "Gladiator Beast Secutor", "Gladiator Beast Tygerius" and "Gladiator Beast Andal" have an effect to return to the Deck during the end of a Battle Phase when it battled, and then to Special Summon another "Gladiator Beast" Monster to replace it (this is also known as Tagging Out). The newly Special Summoned "Gladiator Beast" Monsters usually gain another effect when Special Summoned in this way. Despite their Special Summoning abilities, many "Gladiator Beast" Monsters have low ATK and/or DEF stats which are compensated for by their support cards.
In addition to "tagging out" "Gladiator Beasts", "Gladiator Beasts" have four Fusion Monsters, three of which require a specific "Gladiator Beast" monster and either one or two other "Gladiator Beast" monsters on the field (depending on the Fusion monster being summoned), at which point the "Gladiator Beast" monsters can be returned to the Main Deck to Special Summon the appropriate "Gladiator Beast" Fusion Monster. The monsters used for the Special Summoning of these "Gladiator Beast" monsters ("Gladiator Beast Gaiodiaz", "Gladiator Beast Heraklinos", "Gladiator Beast Essedarii" and "Gladiator Beast Gyzarus") can be used as Fusion Material monsters while Face-up or Face-down on the field, and with the exception of "Gladiator Beast Heraklinos" and "Gladiator Beast Essedarii", the "Gladiator Beast" Fusion monsters can be returned to the deck in the same way as normal "Gladiator Beast" monsters after they've battled (although they cannot summon the specific "Gladiator Beast" monster required for their summoning). "Gladiator Beast" Fusion monsters, because they do not require a Spell card to Special Summon them, are considered Contact Fusion Monsters.
Also, nearly every card in the archetype is capable of being returned to the Hand, Field, or Deck from the Graveyard, whether using the "Gladiator Beast" monsters themselves or using their support cards. The "Gladiator Beast" deck includes a mix of destruction, aggro, and toolbox cards and tactics. It is this versatility which landed this deck as one of the top decks in the Shonen Jump Circuit.
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