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Animation: Kakashi Hatake sits face-down as a hidden character with 0 Power. You pay his printed cost of 4 Chakra to reveal him, the card flips face-up, and his AMBUSH effect fires: POWERUP 2, raising his Power from 3 to 5.
The surprise reveal
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Fires only when you reveal this character from hidden, never when it is played face-up from your hand.
AMBUSH 2.
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Animation: Rock Lee has a printed Power of 4. A POWERUP 3 effect drops three Power tokens onto him one at a time, raising his Power to 5, 6 and then 7. In the End phase all Power tokens are removed and he is back to 4.
Stack Power tokens
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Put X Power tokens on a character, on this one unless the card says otherwise.
MAINPOWERUP 1 on each other character in this mission.
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Animation of this site's EXHAUST shorthand, which is not an official keyword: you start the Round with 7 Chakra, spend 3 to play Rock Lee and 1 to play a card hidden, and those orbs move to an exhausted tray. In the End phase the 3 unspent Chakra are discarded, so nothing carries over.
Our shorthand for spending Chakra
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This site's shorthand for spending Chakra. Exhausted Chakra is gone for the rest of the Round.
Exhaust 4 Chakra: flip the hidden card face-up.
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Mission Log
Our rollout to Bandai’s global launch of the Naruto Card Game · June 2027
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Phase 1 · Q4 2026
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Phase 2 · Q1–Q2 2027
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Deck Builder
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Phase 3 · June 2027
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