Adventure Battle Card

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Adventure Battle Card (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 Adventure Battle Card, JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken Adventure Battle Card) was a series of collectible cards from Bandai's Carddass vending machines. The first series was released in March 2007.

There are a total of eight series, with each set containing approximately 100 cards. An additional set with Tarot cards designed by Hirohiko Araki was also released.

There are five different type of cards: Hero card, Character card, Stand card, Event card, and Stage card.

Rules & Information

Deck Building Rule

When building a deck, the following rules must be adhered to:

• In a deck, the player needs 30 or more cards in their draw deck + 1 Hero Card
• For the same kinds of cards, the player is only allowed to put in 3 of a card with the same card name.

Card Descriptions

Sometimes, the card ability areas have names along with commas or slashes. It references whether or not you need two cards for an ability to happen, or just one.

• 「 , 」 Commas represent situations that need both cards/events to occur.
  • Example: If it shows 『Jonathan, Zeppelli』, it means that both these characters must be out for something to take place.
• 「 / 」 The slash means that either card needs to be in play for the effect to occur.
  • Example: When 『Jonathan/Zeppelli』 are out then it means that either Jonathan or Zeppelli need to be out for the effect to happen.

Card Symbols

• 《》: Card Name: The name of the CARD: e.g. 《Jotaro Kujo》
• 『』: Character Name: The name of the CHARACTER: e.g. 『Jotaro』
• 【】: Species: The card's SPECIES: e.g. 【人間 Human】 【吸血鬼 Vampire】

Special Ability and Stand Power Type Icons

• ◎: Ordinary Type Effect: In the battlefield, this effect type automatically activates. It is considered to be always on.
• ★: Void Type Effect: When you wish to use a void type ability, you must discard this card. You may use a void type on either you, or your opponent's turns.
• ◆: Action Type Effect (all): When you wish to use an action type ability (all, you, and opponent types), you must turn the card 90 degrees sideways. This action is called "exhausting a character" (called "tapping" or "bowing" in other CCGs) to show that they are "tired". Action type effect (all) may be used on either you, or your opponent's turns.
  • ▲: Action Type Effect (you): This effect type is played on your turn.
  • ▼: Action Type Effect (opponent): This effect type is played on your opponent's turn.

Gameplay

Game Setup

1. After placing the play sheets down so the middle stages are matching, place your Hero Card face-down under the #13 ("XIII") on the Life Gauge. Hand your deck of cards to your opponent and shuffle them. Then, hand them back.
2. Draw 6 cards to form your 'hand'.
3. Play "rock-paper-scissors" to see who goes first.
4. Flip your Hero card face-up under the #13 on the Life Gauge.

Turn Phases

There are 7 phases that each player must go through in order.

Reset Phase

This phase is only after your first turn. During this phase, you will flip face-up the lineage cards that you flipped face-down last turn. Also, any of your "exhausted" cards will be turned facing upwards (inexhausted).

Hand Refresh Phase

During this phase, you will add 1-2 cards to your hand. If, at the end of your turn, you have more than 7 cards, you must discard until you get 6. The player who starts the game first does not draw any cards. This is because you go first and it makes things a bit more even.

Lineage Phase

From your hand, choose one character card and place it to the far left side of your lineage area. This character will never battle. If placed in your lineage area, it only gives points to pay for characters for the battlefield area. So choose wisely. You may only place one lineage card a turn. When placing additional lineage cards in other turns, they are placed to the right of the last lineage card played. When paying for a character card, you use the lineage cards in order from left to right.

Stage Phase

Once the price is paid for the card, a stage may be placed in one of the stage areas. The stage areas are where battles will be fought. The first stage played from someone's hand must be played in the center stage area. Others may then be placed to the right or left of the first one. There are 3 stage areas. If all 3 areas are occupied by stage cards and you wish to play a 4th stage card, then you must choose one stage and discard that card (it goes in the owning person's discard pile) to replace it with yours. A card placed in any stage area takes effect immediately.

Battle Phase

Your characters attack your opponent in the battle phase.

Stand Attachment
At the start of the battle phase, a character that's on the battlefield may receive a Stand from your hand. Once you pay the attachment cost, you place the Stand under the character card (that's on the battlefield). During your opponent's battle phase, you may also put out a Stand. After they do so, you can pay the cost and attach a Stand to one of your characters.

Only one character may have a Stand attached to them at a time, and only one stand of a card number can be out at a time.

Attacking
During your turn, you may attack 1 stage area. Your characters attack your opponents through the stages.

Using Special Abilities
During the battle phase, characters can use their special abilities. Action type (◆/▲/▼) and void type (★) abilities (attackers and blockers) may now be used. They cause the character using the ability to "exhaust" and turn sideways. Ordinary type (◎) special abilities (during attacking and blocking) exhausts the character using the effect.

When action type special abilities are used, that character is exhausted. After a character is exhausted, when void type is used, that character is discarded.

Using Stand Powers
Action type (◆/▲/▼) Stand abilities and void type (★) Stand abilities (attackers and blockers) cause the character using the ability to "exhaust" and turn sideways. Ordinary type (◎) Stand abilities (during attacking and blocking) exhausts the character using the effect.

When action type Stand abilities are used, that character is exhausted. When a void type ability is used, that Stand is discarded. When a character has many options to choose from on their card and/or Stand, choose one ability to occur.

Appearance Phase

During this phase you may take characters from your hand and place them on the battlefield.

1. Appearing character cards of a specific 「Character Name」 may be placed out onto the battlefield only if there is not another card on your side with that particular character name.
2. Characters can only appear when their 「Appearance Cost」 has been paid.
3. Appearing characters come into play inexhausted.

You must pay for one character card at a time. You may, however, put more than one character card out during your appearance phase as long as you can afford to bring them out.

Once the appearance cost has been paid, the character card is placed onto the battle field.

End Phase

This is the end of your turn. Action type, void type, special abilities, stand abilities, and effect card effects all end. If at this time you have 7 cards or more, you must discard down to 6 cards. All extra cards are placed into the discard pile. This turn is now over, and your opponent begins their own 7-phase turn.

End of Game

A player loses when:

• Their life reaches 0 points.
• When their draw deck reaches 0 cards.

List of Cards

This section requires expansion.

Hero Cards
No.	Card Name	Appearance	Rarity	Effect		Image
J-001	Jonathan Joestar	Phantom Blood	ST	When you have three characters on your side, Jonathan gets 「P＋2, S＋2, T＋2」.
J-002	Dio Brando	Phantom Blood	ST	When you attack and damage your opponent with a character that is "Evil/Blood", recover 2 life points up to your maximum.
J-003	Joseph Joestar	Battle Tendency	ST	On your hand refresh phase, apart from your normally drawn cards, you may draw one extra card but you must then discard one card from your hand.
J-004	Kars	Battle Tendency	R	During your turn, all stages change to: ”Scale”： One character regardless of character level.
J-005	Jotaro Kujo	Stardust Crusaders	R	Once per turn, one of your characters with an attached Stand may perform an “action type” ability without “exhausting”.
Character Cards
No.	Card Name	Appearance	Rarity	Affiliation	Effect	Image
J-006	Jonathan Joestar	Phantom Blood	R	Ripple	◎ Discard one card from your hand to give this card 「S＋1」 for the rest of this turn.
J-007	Ripple Fighter Jonathan	Phantom Blood	U	Ripple	◎ When this character’s attack is blocked, by a character of 「level: 2」 or less, and this character is destroyed, the blocking card is destroyed as well.
J-008	Young Jonathan	Phantom Blood	C	Ally	◎ When this character attacks, he does not 'exhaust' afterwards.
J-009	William A. Zeppeli	Phantom Blood	C	Ripple	◆ One Ripple character gets 「S＋1」.
J-010	Jonathan & Zeppeli	Phantom Blood	U	Ripple	---
J-011	Robert E. O. Speedwagon	Phantom Blood	C	Ally	★ One ally on your side gains 「P＋1、S＋1」.
J-012	Erina Pendleton	Phantom Blood	C	Ally	★ Recover 2 life points. This effect can only be used at the beginning of the battle phase.
J-013	Danny	Phantom Blood	C	Ally	◎ When your hero card is Jonathan Joestar, this character has 「S＋1」.
J-014	Tonpetty	Phantom Blood	C	Ripple	---
J-015	Dire	Phantom Blood	C	Ripple	◎ When attacking, this character and one of the enemies get 「P－1」 until the end of the battle.
J-016	Straizo	Phantom Blood	C	Ripple	◎ When blocking, if this character’s attack power exceeds the enemy’s attack power, the opponent's life is decreased by the excess amount.
J-017	Joseph Joestar	Battle Tendency	R	Ripple	◎ When your lineage has a face-up Jonathan card, this character gets 「P＋1, S＋1, T＋1」.
J-018	Joseph's Clackers	Battle Tendency	C	Ripple	◆ One character gets 「level -1 (lowest 1), P－1」.
J-019	Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli	Battle Tendency	C	Ripple	▼Flip as many as you like. For each lineage 「Ripple」 flipped face-down, “exhaust” one level of the opponent’s 【Living Dead】 characters. This effect can only be used before your opponent declares an attack.
J-020	Joseph & Caesar	Battle Tendency	U	Ally	---
J-021	Elizabeth Joestar	Battle Tendency	R	Ripple	◆ When your lineage has 『Joseph/Caesar』 face-up, all Ripple allies at one stage get 「S＋2」.
J-022	Ripple Fighter Lisa Lisa	Battle Tendency	U	Ripple	---
J-023	Old Speedwagon	Battle Tendency	C	Ally	▲ Draw two cards.
J-024	Grandma Erina	Battle Tendency	C	Ally	▲ When you have Smokey on your side, your Joseph gets 「S＋1, T＋1」.
J-025	Rudol von Stroheim	Battle Tendency	C	Ally	---
J-026	Cyborg Stroheim	Battle Tendency	C	Ally	◆Flip as many as you like. For each lineage 「Ally」 flipped face-down, one of the opponent’s 【Living Dead】 characters gets 「P－1, S－1, T－1」.
J-027	Messina	Battle Tendency	C	Ripple	---
J-028	Loggins	Battle Tendency	C	Ripple	---
J-029	Suzi Q	Battle Tendency	C	Ally	◆ If your character card Joseph is destroyed, discard one card from your hand to place the Joseph into your hand instead of into the discard pile.
J-030	Smokey	Battle Tendency	C	Ally	◆ One character’s attack power is changed to 「S」.
J-031	Jotaro Kujo	Stardust Crusaders	R	Stand	◎ If this character has a Stand attached, you may discard one lineage card of your choice. For every lineage card you discard, this character gains 「P＋1, S＋1」.
J-032	Time Stopping Jotaro	Stardust Crusaders	C	Stand	◎ When this character is blocking DIO, you may discard 4 lineage cards to win the battle outright.
J-033	Mr. Joseph Joestar	Stardust Crusaders	U	Stand	◎ If your lineage chart has one face-up Joseph card, flip it face-down to give this character 「P＋1, T＋1」 for 1 turn.
J-034	Jotaro & Joseph	Stardust Crusaders	U	Stand	---
J-035	Noriaki Kakyoin	Stardust Crusaders	C	Ally	▼ When this character’s Stand has been attached, all enemies at one stage get 「S－1」.
J-036	Kakyoin's Wisdom	Stardust Crusaders	U	Stand	---
J-037	J. P. Polnareff	Stardust Crusaders	C	Ally	◎ When this character is blocking in battle, and loses, it is “exhausted” but not discarded.
J-038	Polnareff's Anger	Stardust Crusaders	U	Stand	---
J-039	Muhammad Avdol	Stardust Crusaders	C	Stand	◎ Regardless of a stage’s unique effects, this character always uses 「P」 to attack.
J-040	Iggy	Stardust Crusaders	C	Stand	▼ If a stage has a 「”Scale”: 4」 or more, it gets 「”Scale”－1」. This effect must be used before an opponent has declared an attack.
J-041	Dio Brando	Phantom Blood	U	Evil	◎ When this character uses 《Stone Mask》, place 《Stone Mask》 under this card. Until this character is discarded, the card stays attached and the effect continues.
J-042	Vampire DIO	Phantom Blood	R	Blood	◎ All 【Living Dead】 characters get 「P＋1」.
J-043	Young Dio	Phantom Blood	C	Evil	---
J-044	DIO's Head	Phantom Blood	U	Blood	◎ When this character is defeated, instead of discarding it place it face-up anywhere in your lineage chart.
J-045	Wang Chan	Phantom Blood	C	Blood	◆ When your DIO is discarded, discard one card from your hand and return DIO to your hand.
J-046	Jack the Ripper	Phantom Blood	C	Evil	◆ One enemy gets 「S－1」.
J-047	Dark Knight Bruford	Phantom Blood	C	Blood	◆ One enemy gets 「P－1, T－1」.
J-048	Tarkus	Phantom Blood	C	Blood	---
J-049	Undead Doobie	Phantom Blood	C	Blood	★ After taking damage from one attack, give your opponent half the damage you took (rounded down).
J-050	Page	Phantom Blood	C	Evil	◎ When any one of your 『Page/Jones/Plant/Bornnam』 characters attack or block, then the others may join as if they were all together one character. Every additional character card past the first gets 「P＋1」.
J-051	Jones	Phantom Blood	C	Evil
J-052	Plant	Phantom Blood	C	Evil
J-053	Bornnam	Phantom Blood	C	Evil
J-054	Living Dead Town Citizens	Phantom Blood	C	Blood	◎ If you have another 『Zombie』 character, this character can be placed onto the battlefield.
J-055	Living Dead Criminal	Phantom Blood	C	Evil	◎ If you have another 『Zombie』 character, this character can be placed onto the battlefield.
J-056	Living Dead Fighter	Phantom Blood	C	Evil	◎ If you have another 『Zombie』 character, this character can be placed onto the battlefield.
J-057	Straizo's Darkness	Battle Tendency	C	Blood	▲ Discard one 「Blood」 card from your lineage to discard one enemy character with a 「S：1 or less」. This effect is only available before declaring an attack.
J-058	Donovan	Battle Tendency	C	Evil	◎ When this character has an ally in one stage, this character gets 「S＋1」.
J-059	Wired Beck	Battle Tendency	C	Blood	▲ Your opponent discards one card from the top of their draw deck.
J-060	Santana	Battle Tendency	C	Pillar	◎ When attacking, this character and one of the enemies get 「P－1」 until the end of the battle.
J-061	Santana's Return	Battle Tendency	C	Pillar	▲ If the amount of attack power of an ally 【Pillar Men】 is greater than the attack power of the defending enemy, reduce the opponent’s life points by the difference.
J-062	Wamuu	Battle Tendency	C	Pillar	◆ One stage gets 「”Scale”＋2」.
J-063	Wamuu's Wind	Battle Tendency	U	Pillar	▲ If one enemy of 「T: 1」 or less has a level the same as the number of cards in the opponent’s hand, that enemy is discarded. This effect is only available before declaring an attack.
J-064	Esidisi	Battle Tendency	C	Pillar	---
J-065	Esidisi's Flames	Battle Tendency	C	Pillar	▲ One of your 【Pillar Men】’s attack power is changed to 「P」.
J-066	Kars	Battle Tendency	C	Pillar	◎ When this character is blocked, regardless of attack power, opponent's life decreases 10 points.
J-067	Ultimate Lifeform - Kars	Battle Tendency	R	Pillar	◎ This character negates the opponent’s use of 「character special abilities/opponent's event cards」.
J-091	Jonathan Joestar	Phantom Blood	U	Ally	◎ When this character is defeated in battle, the opponent discards the same amount of cards from their hand as this character’s current level.
J-092	Dio Brando	Phantom Blood	U	Evil	◎ Every time this character wins a battle or reduces the opponent’s life, take two cards from your discard pile, add them to your draw deck, and re-shuffle it.
Event Cards
No.	Name	Appearance	Rarity	Effect		Image
J-068	Sunlight Yellow Overdrive!!	Phantom Blood	C	One character’s attack power is changed to 「S」.
J-069	Another Ripple!	Phantom Blood	U	This card lasts for 1 turn. When an ally’s attack is not blocked, in addition to normal damage, reduce the opponent’s life further by the attack power of your character’s 「S」.
J-070	Metal Silver Overdrive!	Phantom Blood	U	Make one battle invalid. All attacking and blocking characters are sent back to their sides “exhausted”.
J-071	Zoom Punch!	Phantom Blood	C	In battle, one ally gains 「S＋2」.
J-072	Stone Mask	Phantom Blood	U	Give one of your 【Vampire】 characters 「P＋2, S＋1」.
J-073	Do you remember how many loafs of bread you have eaten in your life?	Phantom Blood	C	One character’s attack power is changed to 「P」.
J-074	Red Stone of Aja	Battle Tendency	U	Choose one of your face-up lineage cards (minimum of 1), discard it, and recover one life point for every card you do this to. This effect can only be used at the beginning of the battle phase.
J-075	Death Wedding Ring	Battle Tendency	U	This card lasts for 1 turn. This must be used on an enemy with an action ability that has not yet used it. This enemy character cannot use their「special ability/Stand power」(this effect cannot be interrupted), and this character must block if it can. This effect can only be used before declaring a block.
J-076	And time goes on	Battle Tendency	C	Rearrange your lineage cards in any order you wish.
J-077	I… I played another little trick on yoouu!	Battle Tendency	C	All characters use attack power 「T」 (you cannot use this in a battle where there are no characters).
J-078	Blood vessel needle attack!	Phantom Blood	C	Return 1-4 【living dead】 characters back to the draw deck and shuffle it. Your opponent then discards character(s) equal to the level of the amount discarded. (e.g: Three 【living dead】 discarded would be one level 3 character or three level 1 characters). This effect can only be used before declaring an attack.
Stand Cards
No.	Name	Appearance	Rarity	Stand Ability		Image
J-079	Star Platinum	Stardust Crusaders	R	▲ One of your characters with attached Stand gains: 「◎ When attacking, if the amount of your attack power is greater than the attack power of the defending enemy, reduce the opponent’s life points by the difference」. This effect can only be used before declaring a block.
J-080	Hermit Purple	Stardust Crusaders	U	▲ Choose one of your opponent’s lineage cards and flip it face-down.
J-081	Hierophant Green	Stardust Crusaders	C	▼ At one stage, return all enemies 「level: 1」 back to the battlefield “exhausted”. This effect can only be used before declaring a block.
J-082	Silver Chariot	Stardust Crusaders	C	▲ An ally with attached Stand gets 「P＋1, T＋1」.
J-083	Magician's Red	Stardust Crusaders	U	▲ 「Cost: OO」 When you pay the cost, one stage returns to the owner’s draw deck and is re-shuffled. This effect can only be used at the beginning of the battle phase.
J-084	The Fool	Stardust Crusaders	C	▲ You regain 1 life point. This effect can only be used at the beginning of the battle phase.
Stage Cards
No.	Name	Appearance	Rarity	Scale	Effect	Image
J-085	Joestar Mansion	Phantom Blood	C	4	"Ally" characters destroyed at a battle here are returned to the bottom of their draw deck.
J-086	City of Corpses	Phantom Blood	C	2	When defeating an enemy here, your opponent discards their top draw deck card.
J-087	Air Supplena Island	Battle Tendency	C	5	Attack power is decided by 「S」.
J-088	Windknight's Lot	Phantom Blood	C	3	【Living dead】 get 「P＋1」.
J-089	Room of Dragon Decapitation	Phantom Blood	C	4	Attack power is decided by 「P」.
J-090	Skeleton Heel Stone	Battle Tendency	C	6	When a 【Pillar Men】 defeats an enemy, the opponent's life decreases 2 points.
J-093	Mexico Test Site	Battle Tendency	C	5	Attack power is decided by 「T」.
J-094	Atlantic Ocean	Phantom Blood	C	3	【Living dead】 cannot attack or block here. 【Vampire/Pillar Men】 get 「P－1」.