faq

For casual play, you can just shuffle the Missions you have and draw randomly from there.

In competitive play, each player brings 3 different missions together with their deck. You then create a Mission deck putting 2 random missions per player, alternated, so that the top one (Mission D) is from the player with the Edge at the start of the game. 

No, those Missions don’t exist until their round comes and they are in play

Normally this isn’t possible because you cannot on purpose play or activate effects to move a Character with the same name as another in the same Mission. If any other effect forces you to have two Characters with the same name in the same Mission, discard the new one without applying the effects and without considering it defeated. 

Yes, but then you can’t play it anymore in that mission as long as the Character with the same name is there.

No, you need to have at least 1 total Power to win and score a Mission.

When you actually have more Power than the opponent in that mission. In case of a tie, the player currently holding the Edge is winning the mission at that moment.

Like Normal effects, Instant effects are optional unless indicated differently. Continuous effects are always active.

As for Upgraded characters, it goes as it is, so Character on top, attachment under it. 

Same rules for take control apply. You can reveal and attach it to your character, if requirements are met. If the controller loses control, the attachment goes back to the owner's side, where if there is a character that can receive it the owner can attach it, Otherwise it is discarded. 

Yes, it counts adding with the printed power and power tokens.

Yes, you can always upgrade a character with a higher cost version.

Yes, you can. Playing a card from Hidden condition is like playing it from hand, but locked to that Mission only.

Whenever a card leaves play, for example by being defeated or taken back to hand, all cards under that specific card are discarded.

No, you can't use controlled characters to upgrade or be upgraded. 

Yes, you can decide not to activate it, even if it is an effect that modifies the Main effect. For example, you can Upgrade NARUTO Rasengan and decide only to hide the enemy characters.

Enemy means on the opponent’s side. All opponent’s characters are considered Enemy Characters.

Friendly means on your side. Your Characters are considered Friendly to all your other Characters. A character isn't a Friend of itself ;)

No, it has the same effect. The definitions will be aligned in future reprints.

Yes, it becomes Friendly while under your control. If it leaves play, for example being defeated or taken back to hand, it goes back to their owner keeping the current state, for example defeated or in hand.

The effect is applied to all of them at the same time. Effects that modify the Power of the Characters would be applied again after your Kabuto’s effect is fully resolved.

So in the example in the question, if you can’t hide a character A with higher power than Kabuto, because it is strengthened by another card B’s continuous effect, when with the Kabuto effect you hide the B card that is strengthening A, you can’t now hide also A, because they all get hidden at the same time. 

You count only the last opponent’s turn, so if you take multiple turns, you can’t move anybody with Shikamaru - Shadow Possession Jutsu.

No, you must apply them in order from top to bottom. That's why sometimes the upgrade/ambush effects are in different positions. 

Yes

No, Chakra +x is a keyword in the glossary of the rulebook. It is a static effect that provides x additional Chakra at the start of the round. You don't get anything when you play the card. 

We strongly suggest to use dice or counters ONLY to show Power tokens, to avoid confusion with static power boosts. Power tokens can be manipulated, static effects can't.  If you want to keep track also of the static ones, use a different kind of tokens

The weakest character is the one with the lowest Power, while the strongest character is the one with the highest Power. Most effects target a single weakest or strongest character. If multiple characters are tied, you may choose which one is affected. Other effects target all the weakest or all the strongest characters. In that case, if there are multiple tied targets, the effect applies to all of them.

Check the number and expansion on the bottom of the card: cards with the same collection number count as the same card so you can’t have more than 2 of the same one in your deck, even if the illustration is different.

You can put a hidden character in play only from your hand with the standard action, paying 1, or through an effect that allows you to do so specifically. You can reveal and play in their mission a character that is already hidden in that mission.

A Hidden Character is a normal Character with cost 0 and Power 0, without any Keyword or Faction. They can normally receive Power Tokens.

Characters with Power Tokens keep them if they change state between Hidden and not Hidden

No, they are 0 cost 0 power cards with no faction nor keywords. 

You stop drawing even when an effect asks you to do so.

You cannot reorganise your discard pile. If an effect puts multiple cards in the discard pile, the decider of the effect decides in which order they get defeated, so the order the cards enter the discard pile.

When not specified, it means “ from hand”.

You must have at least 30 cards. You can have as many cards as you want, as long as you can easily shuffle and manage your deck without help and without delaying the match. 

“If able” refers to the whole effect, so if there are targets you must choose and defeat, if there are no targets you can play it anyway. For example, if you upgrade and you have a friendly character but there is no enemy character in the mission, you still defeat yours.

No, if you can, you have to play a character. You can’t decide to ignore parts of the effect

Yes, you can play it from hidden, because revealing a hidden card into a mission is considered to play it. No, you cannot move it around, as hidden characters can be revealed and played only in their mission, unless specified otherwise. “Anywhere” is meant to reinforce the fact you don’t have to play the summon only in the mission where you play Jiraiya.

No, this effect is not optional, please read it as the opponent MUST draw/gain chakra. We will fix it in further reprints.

To play an upgrade you pay the difference between the previous character and the one you play. So you should pay 2. That cost gets reduced by 1 by Kurenai, so you end up paying 1. If you have additional reductions, it could end up upgrading for free (you don’t get Chakra back for over-discounting).

Yes, Kurenai doesn’t say “friendly”. Same works for some other Characters, like Sakura - Genin of team 7

Yes, if not specified differently they do, if they have the required condition: for example, if you play Sakon (Black Seal), and you want to copy an ambush effect, you must play it while hidden. If you want to copy an Upgrade effect, you must play as Upgrade. If a character has an UPGRADE that modifies another effect, you can't copy that part because it does nothing by itself. 

For all purposes that card is considered to be under your control like for the Take Control effects. This works also for all effects that allow you to use your opponent's card.

It says you must move, if able. In this case you are not able, so NARUTO stays

in Sasuke’s Mission.

They are the Decider and can discard in the order they like, it doesn’t say randomly.

It has the same effect as a “ move to this mission” effect. It is the only card that shows “move in” instead of “move to”, it will be made more consistent on all further cards.

No, please consider it as a "continuous" effect. MAIN ⧗ If there is an enemy Jutsu character in this mission, you can play this character while hidden paying 4 less

Genma's trigger says "if a friendly character WOULD be defeated or hidden". It means all your characters are going to be defeated or hidden, including Genma. When that is happening, Genma triggers and being more recent, he can sacrifice to save one friendly leaf village character. 

Static effects apply at the same time to the Core stats of the card, so the Protect the Leader mission sees Temari as a 2 Power card, and doesn't give her the bonus. She is a 4 Power card in that case. If she had 2 power tokens, she would receive the Protect the Leader bonus and become a 7 Power card. 

No, bonuses to power written on the cards are not related to Power tokens, they are static effects always active. Power tokens are gained by Powerup effects and are removed at the end of the round.

When a hidden card is defeated it gets revealed and put into the discard pile. Tsunade in this case changes the fact it goes to hand instead of the discard pile, but the card still gets revealed. 

No you don't, you just pay 0.