Gladiator Beast Gaiodiaz¶

Edisonformat.net (Revised, Post-UTW Rulings)¶

Source: https://edisonformat.net/card?name=Gladiator%20Beast%20Gaiodiaz

Edison-Accurate PSCT¶

Gladiator Beast Spartacus” + 1 “Gladiator Beast” monster Ⓢ Must first be Special Summoned (from your Extra Deck) by shuffling the above cards you control into the Deck (You don’t use “Polymerization”). ① If this card destroys a monster by battle and sends it to the GY: Your opponent takes damage equal to that monster’s original DEF. ② At the end of the Battle Phase, if this battled: You can shuffle it into the Deck; Special Summon 2 “Gladiator Beast” monsters from your Deck.

Card Rulings¶

• “Battling” requires this card to be involved in Damage Calculation (If this card’s attack is negated, the ② effect can’t activate).

• If multiple “Gladiator Beast” effects are activated at the end of the Battle Phase, they don’t go on the same Chain (they each activate, one after another, each on their own Chain).

• If this card was originally Special Summoned by its own procedure, it can still later be Summoned by card effects.

Edisonformat.com (Historical, Pre-UTW Rulings)¶

Source: https://www.edisonformat.com/rulings

Card Text¶

“Gladiator Beast Spartacus” + 1 “Gladiator Beast” monster Ⓢ This card can only be Special Summoned from your Fusion Deck, by returning the above cards you control to the Deck. (You do not use “Polymerization”.) ① When this card destroys a monster by battle and sends it to the Graveyard, inflict damage to your opponent equal to the DEF of the destroyed monster. ② At the end of the Battle Phase, if this card attacked or was attacked, you can return it to the Fusion Deck to Special Summon 2 “Gladiator Beast” monsters from your Deck, except “Gladiator Beast Spartacus”.

Card Rulings¶

• The Ⓢ Special Summon Condition restricts how this card is Summoned from the Extra Deck.

  • This Summon does not start a Chain.

  • This Special Summon is not a Fusion Summon, it can be performed under “Non-Fusion Area”.

  • Once properly Summoned, Gaiodiaz can be Special Summoned from the Graveyard (by “Gladiator Beast Darius”) or from removed from play (by “Return from the Different Dimension”).

  • Face-up & face-down Fusion Material Monsters you control may be used to Summon this card. Face-down materials must be revealed before shuffling them into the Main / Extra Deck.

  • A “Gladiator Beast” Fusion Monster may be used as the second Fusion Material Monster.

    • You cannot return your only copy of “Gladiator Beast Gaiodiaz” to the Extra Deck as Fusion Material to Special Summon that same copy of Gaiodiaz to the field.

• The ① mandatory Trigger Effect activates in Substep 7 - End of the Damage Step.

  • This monster must be face-up on the field in order to activate this effect.

• The ② optional Trigger Effect may be activated if this card was engaged in Damage Calculation.

  • Returning the “Gladiator Beast” monster to the Deck is a cost.

    • You can shuffle your opponent’s “Gladiator Beast” (that you obtained by “Brain Control”) into their deck and Special Summon a different named “Gladiator Beast” from yours.

  • You must have 2+ “Gladiator Beasts” in your Deck not named “Gladiator Beast Spartacus” to activate & resolve this effect.

  • You cannot activate this effect if your “Gladiator Beast” monster that battled was flipped face-down during the Battle Phase (even if it is flipped face-up before the end of the Battle Phase).

  • “Royal Oppression” and “Divine Wrath” can be chained to this effect. The effect will be negated, but the “Gladiator Beast” monster will not be destroyed because it is in the Deck.

  • If 2 or more “Gladiator Beast” battled this turn, their effects will activate and resolve separately.

    • They are not combined onto the same Chain.

    • The turn player may resolve ALL their “Gladiator Beast” monsters’ tag-out effects before their opponent is allowed to activate any of their own “Gladiator Beast” tag-out effects.

  • If a “Gladiator Beast” monster’s attack is stopped (by “Gravity Bind”) or is negated (by “Negate Attack”), that “Gladiator Beast” cannot activate its effect at the end of the Battle Phase.