Find a few friends with whom you can play your first Naruto Card Battle games to learn the basics and develop your skills.
Visit your local hobby or card store to find Naruto cards and game accessories and add your name to the store's contact list so you can stay informed about tournaments in your area.
Visit Bandai's Naruto CCG website to read and absorb the game manual and see the flow of the game in a demonstration video (see Resources below). You can safely download the manual as a .pdf file and print it for later reading.
Learn the anatomy of a Naruto card so that you can immediately spot key information such as symbol, card type, effect, combat attribute and degree of rarity.
Assemble a deck of 40 Naruto cards in front of you and trade cards in and out to make the best deck possible.
Limit the deck to a maximum of 25 ninja cards with no more than 3 copies of any single card. You always need to have ninja cards in play, so it is wise to include a full complement of 25 ninja cards rather than to begin play with too few of them.
Include several low Entrance Cost ninja so that your opponent is not able to defeat you in the first 5 turns. A card's Entrance Cost is printed as a green graphic on the card's right side below the picture.
Fill out the deck with a mix of Jutsu, Mission and Client cards to create powerful combinations with your ninja, and an appropriate but limited balance of chakra symbols.
Check with your local hobby store to find a tournament near you and get a flyer with all the necessary information and directions.
Bring everything you need to play including your deck, game mat, turn markers, coins and money for registration.
Check in with the "Meijin" who is handling tournament registration. Claim your Naruto CCG promotional card if one is available and get ready to rumble!