I think I play the normal way pretty much, except for ability cards. I play that you can have as many ability cards as you want, of any style. It makes the game way more fun and interesting, more like the show, if you can use as many abilities.Oh, and I play where you can have 1-3 bakugan and you loose when you loose 500(or more) points(points as if my bakugan has 700G and I beat a bakugan with 500G, the other player looses 200 points for that battle, kinda like in the show).