Bakugan Trading Card Game

Bakugan is a card game that is played with magnetic spring-loaded marbles. It was developed by Sega Toys and Spin Master.

It differs a bit from most trading card games in that it also includes miniatures and marbles, but since the cards themselves are still collectible and there are rare issues and such, I believe it would still technically count as a TCG.

If you're looking for a rundown on the toys and sets available, check out my hub on Bakugan Battle Brawler Toys

Bakugan can be played with 2-4 players. First you need your your Bakugan marbles and your cards. You will lay down a card (face down) in front of your opponent and they put a card down in front of you.

Then you each take turns shooting your Bakugan, once one lands on a card properly it will open. Play continues until 2 bakugan are on the same card. If both are yours, you win the card and you take it out of play. If only one is yours and the other belongs to your opponent, then you battle and will flip the card over.

There are different types of cards:

Normal cards which just have the sector bubbles on the side indicating how much your bakugan gain/ loses g-points depending on their attribute

Character cards which will have the name of a bakugan at the top and if one of those bakugans land on the card then their g-points are doubled

Command cards which have instructions at the bottom of the card indicating that there is something you have to do ( commands will vary.)

The point is to have more g- points than your opponent- say my pyros (red) bakugan has 300gs and my opponents haos (silver- white) bakugan has 350gs and they landed on the same card, we would flip it over and look on the left of the card where the sector bubbles are and find the red bubble and the white bubble.

Inside those bubbles there will be a number such as -50 or 100 this indicates the number of gs that you must add or takeaway from your Bakugan's power level. So if the card said in the red bubble: 100 than I would add 100gs to my bakugan's power making it 400gs. And if the white bubble indicated: -50 then you would take off 50gs form my opponent's bakugan, making it 300gs. S

Now it's 400 against 300 and mine's stronger so I take the bakugans and the card off the field and they're now mine, although I can't use the card again.

Play continues until 1 player runs out of Bakugan. And at the beginning of your turn it is your choice to put down another card on the field of not, but if you do put one down then one side of the card must always be touching a side of a card that is already on the field.

I hope that explains how to play the game, and don't worry it is easier to pick up how to do it when you actually have the cards and marbles in front of you.

If you want to see the various battle sets available, check out the Bakugan toys hub