Elemental Alignment

The Naruto CCG has five basic Elemental Alignments: Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, and Lightning. Each Element has a different playstyle and strengths and weaknesses.

For the purposes of deck building and play, Elemental Alignment had to be taken into consideration. The Hand Cost of higher level Ninjas can only be paid by sending cards of the same Element to the Chakra Area. If the player did not have a card with the same symbol in their hand, they would be unable to play that Ninja.

Likewise, Jutsus often required players to discard cards from their Chakra Area that had the same symbol.

Trivia

 * Since the Naruto CCG was released in 2006, the official Elemental Alignment of many of the characters had not officially been revealed in the manga. As such, characters are sometimes assigned Elements that were revealed later to be wrong, such as Sakura being Wind when the manga later reveals she is Fire.