NRSA01 Heaven Scroll: the starter set, walked through

2025-09-15 · Narutodb · 4 min read

#NRSA01 #Set walkthroughs

NRSA01 (product model NR-RDIV-Z001-NA, released September 2025) is the first NA-print Kayou Naruto set. It sets the rarity slate that the rest of the NRSA mainline largely follows, and at $3.99 a pack and 24 packs to a box it's also the cheapest of the NRSA chapters to chase by box. If you're new to Kayou and trying to figure out which set to open into first, the answer is almost always this one.

This is the high-level walkthrough. We'll keep the chase-tier deep dives to their own posts.

The set, by the numbers

158 distinct card types, organized into ten rarity tiers:

• R (Rare). 50 cards. Story-arc recap composition, two per pack guaranteed.
• SR (Super Rare). 20 cards. Holo character portraits, one per pack.
• SSR (Super Special Rare). 24 cards. Holo action poses with prominent jutsu visualizations.
• UR (Ultra Rare). 15 cards. Top base-pack chase. Refined character profiles with dynamic staging.
• PTR (Poster Rare). 20 cards. Two per pack. Box-poster-style layout; the second guaranteed rare slot.
• PU (Parallel Universe). 8 cards. Foil parallel of selected base cards.
• MR (Miracle Rare). 6 cards. Mirror-foil cardstock with celestial framing.
• BP (Brush Rare). 7 cards. Ink-wash painting style. Multi-character story scenes.
• SP (Special). 4 cards. Stained-glass aesthetic. Character spotlight.
• SE (Special Edition). 4 cards. Ukiyo-e framed interlude scene. Multi-character ensemble.

There is no AR (Art Rare), no ASP, no ◇UR, no HR in NRSA01. Those rarity tiers debut in the later NRSA sets. NRSA01 is deliberately the simpler slate.

Pack composition

Two pack variants split 50/50 across the box (12 of each per 24-pack box):

1. 2R + 1SR + 3 (SR/SSR/UR) + 2PTR
2. 2R + 1SR + 3 (SR/SSR/UR/PU/MR/BP/SP/SE) + 2PTR

Both variants guarantee 2R, 1SR, 2PTR, and 3 cards from the upper-rarity slot. Only variant 2 can produce the chase-tier rarities (PU/MR/BP/SP/SE). Half the packs in a box are limited to the base rarities, which is part of what makes NRSA01's per-pack experience feel more accessible than later sets.

What chases this set

With no diamond tier and no serialized-print rarities, NRSA01's master-set math is dominated by the UR (15 cards) and PTR (20 cards) slates. Both are pack-pullable at meaningful rates, and the Monte Carlo simulator on the home page consistently identifies UR as the typical bottleneck, but a much shallower one than you'll see in NRSA02 or NRSA03.

Concretely: a typical NRSA01 master-set sim lands the mean cost around 2 to 3 boxes (P50), with the P90 case at roughly 4 boxes and the long-tail P99 cases approaching 6 to 7 boxes for the unlucky finishes. That's an order of magnitude friendlier than the NRSA03 ◇UR chase.

Notable cards

A few highlights worth knowing about as you open into the set:

• UR slate (15 cards) features the core Land of Waves cast: Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Kakashi, Zabuza, Haku, plus a handful of supporting characters. No NA-exclusive UR variants in this set.
• BP (7 cards) in NRSA01 leans into ink-wash group scenes from the arc. Visually distinctive.
• SE (4 cards) is the prestige tier here. Ukiyo-e framed ensembles. The most coveted of the four is usually the Team 7 ensemble.

Where to start

If you're new to Kayou Naruto NA and trying to decide where to begin: open one box of NRSA01. The slate is small enough that one box puts you most of the way through R/SR/SSR and gives you a representative sample of the upper-rarity slot. From there you can decide whether you want to push to a master set of NRSA01 (achievable) or jump to NRSA02 (longer arc, more chase tiers, harder).

If you already collect later sets and skipped NRSA01: the rarity slate is the most legible, the math is the most forgiving, and the artwork is some of the cleanest in the whole NA program. Worth circling back to.