Editing Battle Card (Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam)

'''Battle Cards''' are items introduced in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam]]'', being the spiritual successor to the [[Badge#Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story / Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey|Badge]] [[Badge#Mario & Luigi: Dream Team|system]] in the [[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story|previous]] [[Mario & Luigi: Dream Team|games]]. They are used in battle and have a plethora of effects: examples include temporarily boosting a certain stat, healing the party, reducing a specific group of enemy's Level, dealing damage to a specific group of enemies and boosting [[Experience Point|EXP]] and [[Coin]]s earned at the end of the battle.

In the menu, the player can set up a deck from their Battle Card collection from the Battle Card option. A deck can only contain 10 cards: no more, no less. First, the player can only make a deck, but as they collect more Battle Cards, they can store three decks, and, by changing them, they can even make unfinished ones (that cannot be used in battle). From this menu, the player can also delete the currently set Battle Cards, restore the deck to how it was last time the player edited it, or let the game complete the deck by picking random Battle Cards.

When a deck is set up, it appears in the Touch Screen in battle. Their effects can be used in exchange of [[Star Point]]s: up to 20 of them can be obtained at once (30 with a [[Rank|Rank-Up Bonus]]). Each card uses a different amount of Star Points, from just one to over a dozen of them (this amount can also be reduced by one with a Rank-Up Bonus). Star Points are obtained by attacking enemies, and obtaining ranks like Great and Excellent gives more of them at once: however, ordinary attacks can only add up to about a third of a Star Point, while [[Bros. Attacks]] and [[Trio Attacks]] can grant up over one Star Point and a half. If a player does not want to use a card, they can turn it over to discard it.

Various [[Clothing|Gear]] helps the player gather Star Points. Filler Gloves (and Filler Gloves DX) increase the Star Points the player obtains after any attack. Counter Change Gloves make the player obtain Star Points when countering enemy attacks, while Filler Brooches give Star Points whenever a Lucky Hit is scored and Filler Wears (and Filler Wears DX) give Star Points whenever the user takes damage. Paper Mario also has his own variants of these Gears, but he does not seem to be able to wear Counter Change Gloves, and Filler Wear (DX) is called Boost Wear (DX).

After Battle Cards are introduced, Shiny Battle Cards can be dropped by enemies at anytime. The player can learn about their effect by talking to the rightmost Toad in a Card Shop, who refers to them as "sparkle cards."

'''Character Cards''' are a system similar to Battle Cards, but work with [[amiibo]]. To get started, one must first get a '''? Card'''. ? Cards come in two variations: LV 1 ? Cards and LV 2 ? Cards. The second type is rarer but produces stronger cards. They are rarely dropped by enemies or alternatively bought for 200 and 800 [[Coin]]s, respectively, in a Card Shop from Toads that have a dialogue box with a ? Card in it. ? Cards can also be sold, for the same price the can be bought for, to the aforementioned Toads. From the menu, the player can make a random Character Card of the ? Card's level by scanning an amiibo. In battle, the player can scan an amiibo, pick a card and use it. That amiibo character cannot be used again until the battle ends, limiting the player to 6 Character Cards per battle. The player cannot get doubles of the same card: every ? Card is guaranteed to grant a new card. Once all cards of the same level are obtained, the player also cannot make another for that amiibo.

Two variations of them exist. The first is '''Duo Character Cards'''. If the game alerts the player they can make one by saying "Now's Your Chance!", they can scan a different character amiibo (no data is written on it) and the card is obtained. They feature an artwork of two characters at once. If the player does not have another amiibo, they can cancel the creation with {{button|3ds|B}}. If they make a combination that does not lead to any Duo Character Card, the card making is canceled. Bowser does not appear in any LV 1 Duo Character Cards (except for its own), while only Mario, Luigi and Bowser are guaranteed to star in an amiibo's LV 2 Duo Card: Yoshi, Peach and Toad are present sparingly.

'''Sparkle Character Cards''' are stronger version of Character Cards, but are made differently. If the player has two amiibo of the same character and both of them have at least one shared Character Card, they can both be scanned to make a card with the same effect, but that also grants Star Points (two for LV 1 Cards, four for LV 2 Cards and five for {{conjectural|Extra Card}}), and register it on both amiibo. They are shiny too, making them similar to Shiny Battle Cards. However, the player can only make one Sparkle Character Card per day.

During the boss fight against [[Ludwig|Ludwig von Koopa]] and [[Larry|Larry Koopa]] in [[Twinsy Tropics]] and [[Neo Bowser Castle]], he has his own Battle Card decks that he uses to aid himself and Larry in the battle. Both [[Koopalings]] also have a personal Star Points counter (called Dark Star Points in-game), which works similarly to the player's: if the player fails to dodge enemy attacks and gets hit, the counter goes up. Battle Cards are used automatically as the needed Dark Star Points are reached; their effects include raising one of their stats or disabling some of the player's attacks temporarily. At the start of the battle and after any card is played, a dialogue plays, alerting the player of the next card's effect and the number of Dark Star Points needed. All Battle Cards are used in a precise order, and when the last Battle Card is used, Ludwig starts the cycle over by drawing the first card of the deck. Ludwig does not use any more battle cards once Larry is defeated.

'''First battle'''<br>

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[[Morton|Morton Koopa Jr.]] also uses his magic to mess with the player's Battle Deck. All their cards become Battle Cards with Morton's emblem over them. They cost 2 Star Points, but the game obscures their effect. Once used, they either deal everyone 60 damage, drain all of the player's Star Points, or give the player either a Max Mushroom, Max Nut, or Max Candy. Character Cards cannot be used while fighting Morton.

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===Luigi===

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|Restores 30% of the user's BP.

===Peach===

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===Yoshi===

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===Toad===

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===Bowser===

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|Ita=Carta Scontro

|ItaM=Battle Card

|Spa=Carta de combate

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