Your First Steps in Karuta

Learn how to start playing Karuta, drop and grab cards, explore your collection, and use essential commands.

Welcome to Karuta! This Discord-based card game lets you collect characters from anime, manga, video games, and more. As you progress, you'll discover trading, customization, working, clans, and plenty of other features.

This guide will help you get started with your first cards and essential commands.

01 Getting Started With Karuta

Before collecting cards, you'll need to register with Karuta.

▸ Verifying your account:

Follow Karuta's instructions to complete verification.

Once verified, you're ready to begin collecting!

02 Dropping Your First Cards

Dropping generates a selection of random cards that players can attempt to grab.

▸ How to drop cards:

When you use this command, Karuta displays cards that you and other players can attempt to collect.

• Dropping does not automatically give you a card.
• You must wait for your drop cooldown before dropping again.
• Some servers only allow drops in designated channels.

03 Grabbing Cards

When a card drop appears, you can attempt to grab one of the available cards.

▸ How to grab a card:

1. Wait for a card drop to appear.
2. Look at the available cards.
3. Press the button corresponding to the card you want.
4. If successful, the card is added to your collection.

▸ Understanding grab priority:

Players generally receive priority when grabbing cards from their own drops. However, other players can also attempt to grab them.

Learn more in ☾ Cooldowns, Server Drops & Reminders.

04 Viewing Your Collection

Once you've grabbed your first card, you can find it in your collection.

▸ Opening your collection:

Your collection displays the cards you own, along with their unique card codes.

▸ Viewing an individual card:

Example: kv abc123

Replace abc123 with the code of the card you want to inspect.

We'll explore sorting, filtering, and organizing cards in ♤ Cards & Collections.

05 Managing Your Wishlist

Your wishlist tracks characters you want, while Wishwatch helps you catch them in drops.

▸ Adding Characters
Full Command: k!wishadd <name>
Shortcut: kwa <name>

▸ Removing Characters
Full Command: k!wishremove <name>
Shortcut: kwr <name>

▸ Viewing Your Wishlist
Full Command: k!wishlist
Shortcut: kwl

▸ Using Wishwatch
Full Command: k!wishwatch
Shortcut: kww

Use Wishwatch in the channel where you want to monitor drops.

Learn more about wishlists in ♤ Understanding Prints, Editions & Wishlist.

06 Essential Karuta Commands

Karuta commands are entered into Discord channels where the bot is available.

▸ Useful beginner commands:

▸ Need help finding commands?

You don't need to memorize every command immediately. You'll become familiar with the ones you use most often as you play.