Gladiator Beasts 2018

what do: rescue animal/double summon -> dragacius -> pawnch -> darius + another GB (hopefully augustus, which summons another darius from hand) -> dragaycius -> whatever you can make with what's left over (andabatae if possible)

The deck "works" because the GB link monster, "drag-uh-kai-ass," sends GBs to the graveyard instead of back to the deck when summoned. You summon him with double-summon, a rescue animal, or whatever you can put on the field, then hit something with him, which should be easy (cant be destroyed by battle while attacking/cards can't be activated until end of damage step) use his effect to summon darius and augustus. On a good day, you will at this point have 5 GBs on the field (augustus, 2 darius, and the 2 GBs that went to the gy to summon dragonkrakkon) use a darius and the GB that THAT darius summoned (if you use the wrong one, the other GB gets shuffled into the deck and then you'll be sad), to reform dragaliscious, then fuse the other three to summon Andabatae, use him to summon gyzarius (pop 2 cards) then fuse those two into tamer editor. If you get to this point, you have options:

A: Use editor to summon gyzarius and pop 2 more cards

B: Summon Nerokius and xyz into zombiestein->pain gainer->seven sins (or some other rank 8, that one's just one of my favorites)

C: Summon heraklinos to lock down your opponent's spells/traps (wrecks house if you happen to also have a facedown war chariot)

 

problems:

If your opponent top decked one of their three ash-blossoms, your day is ruined.

If an effect is negated, then you probably have no field, because most of your costs shuffle your field into the deck.

usually can't do anything relevant until main phase 2, which means going first is painful.

If it bricks, it bricks hard.