The basics: Leader, 5 Chakra, 1 Summon

Each player has a Leader with 15 LIFE, 5 Chakra cards to pay costs and 1 Summon to bring Characters into play.

The Naruto Card Game revolves around a Leader. The Leader stays in play all game, has 15 LIFE and sets the deck's color: every other card must match it.

Next to the deck sit two special piles: 5 Chakra cards and 1 Summon. Chakra is the resource: you flip a card face-down to pay a cost. The Summon is rested to bring a Character into play.

The Leader also has a [Recovery] effect: from turn two it rests and flips all Chakra face-up again. That is the game's basic rhythm: spend, recover, spend again.