Card Tips:Gladiator Beast Octavius
- This card can be searched by any "Gladiator Beast" monster (except "Andal", "Essedarii", "Heraklinos", "Octavius", "Torax", and another copy of itself), "Test Panther", "Test Tiger", "Gladiator Rejection", "Swallow's Nest", "Tri-Brigade Airborne Assault", "Kittytail, Mystical Beast of the Forest", "Tri-Brigade Shuraig the Ominous Omen", "Swallow's Cowrie", "Floowandereeze & Eglen", "Ninjitsu Art of Transformation", "Animadorned Archosaur", "Dwarf Star Dragon Planeter", "Shadow's Light", "Chaos Zone", "Additional Mirror Level 7", "Witch of the Black Forest", and other generic searchers.
- This card can be Tribute Summoned with one Tribute using "Kaiser Sea Horse" and "The First Monarch".
- You can Special Summon this card with "Gladiator Beast Darius" from the Graveyard to avoid "Octavius'" negative effect.
- If you do not mind discarding cards for "Octavius'" effect, a great card to combo with it is "Forced Requisition".
- Remember: you can Special Summon this card from your Deck by the effect of ANY Gladiator Beast.
- This card is best summoned with "Gladiator Beast Secutor", alongside "Gladiator Beast Bestiari" or "Gladiator Beast Laquari", so that you can tag him back into the deck for a fusion monster.
- Use this card instead of "Gladiator Beast Bestiari" to blow-up dangerous cards like "Bottomless Trap Hole" that can banish your "Bestiari".
- After your "Gladiator Beast Gyzarus" conducts battle, you can activate its effect and return it to the Extra Deck to Special Summon 2 copies of this card, activate their effects to destroy 2 of your opponent's Spell or Trap cards, and then overlay them to Xyz Summon "Number 11: Big Eye" or any other Rank 7 Xyz Monster, bypassing the drawbacks of this card.
- Alternatively, you can Special Summon 2 copies of this card for an Xyz Summon using the effect of "Gladiator Beast Secutor".
