NARUTO CARD GAME at Lucca Comics & Games 2026: tutorials and CP-001

Bandai now has a page for the NARUTO CARD GAME at Lucca Comics & Games. It is titled Lucca Comics & Games Event Information and dated September 4, 2026, the same day as the pages for SPIEL Essen and Paris Games Week. When this page was first written, on September 2, Lucca was a roadmap line, Lucca Comics & Games 2026 (Italy / October 28 to November 1, 2026), and nothing more. That line now carries an Event Information link.

The Lucca page is built from the same template as the other two European pages, and it is shorter than both. What it leaves out is noted below.

At a glance

Where: a square, not a hall

Bandai's Location field reads Piazza Santa Maria, Lucca, Italy. There is no pavilion or stand number on its page.

The festival's own map adds one. The official 2026 map on the Lucca Comics & Games site, as we read it on October 5, has an entry labelled Pad. Santa Maria 1 - Naruto Card Game, with the address Piazza Santa Maria 1. Its neighbours on the map are numbered Santa Maria 2 to 5 and carry other names.

The same map has a separate entry labelled Palestra Ducale Maria Luisa - Bandai/Bandai Namco. Bandai's NARUTO CARD GAME page does not mention it, and names the piazza as the location for this stop.

The session

The wording matches every other stop: "Join our Tutorial Session, and learn how to play in a fun, immersive way." Admission is free, and "participation in any of the activities will require entry to Lucca Comics & Games."

The sign-up method is deferred:

Information on how to participate in the Tutorial Sessions will be announced at a later date. Please stay tuned for further updates.

That was still the wording on October 5. The conditions printed on the page:

• Demo decks are not available to take home.
• One session per person. "You may only participate in 1 tutorial session throughout Lucca Comics & Games."
• One prize per person, "regardless of the number of tutorial sessions reserved or attended."

No session times, no session length and no capacity are given.

The gift: CP-001, and the condition on it

The Participant Gifts list has one item, the CP-001 Chakra Card, with the condition Bandai attaches at every stop:

Only participants registered to the "NARUTO TCG UPDATES CHANNEL" on TCG+ and who complete a survey after the Tutorial Session are eligible to receive the above items.

BANDAI TCG+ is Bandai's card game app, and the channel is a news subscription that Bandai says "is not for event participation at a venue". Logging in to register needs a BANDAI NAMCO ID. The Lucca page does not link to the registration instructions, which the Essen and Paris pages do; they are on Bandai's TCG+ page.

The card has no version suffix, and the sample image is the same file Bandai uses on its other autumn event pages. The printings are tracked in the CP-001 guide.

No Logo Sticker on the Lucca page

This is the difference between Lucca and the other two European stops. The SPIEL Essen and Paris Games Week pages each end with a Giveaways section offering a free Logo Sticker to anyone who follows a Bandai social channel or registers the TCG+ channel. The Lucca page has no Giveaways section, no Logo Sticker in its gift list and no sticker image.

Bandai does not say why, and the absence of a line is not an announcement. What can be stated is that, as the page stood on October 5, the one free item listed for Lucca is CP-001, and it requires a session.

The playmat

The NARUTO CARD GAME Official Playmat -Arriving in 2027- is listed at an MSRP of $35 (+tax), "Limited to one item per person. Available in limited quantities each day." The price is printed in US dollars. The page gives no euro figure.

How to buy it was published by October 14, 2026: "Playmat purchase tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis, with reservations opening one week before each event day. Each ticket reserves a time slot to purchase one playmat on site. Players may reserve a maximum of one playmat during the event." Tickets for October 28 release on October 21, for October 29 on October 22, and so on; the page links a Playmat Ticket Page.

Registration, as published October 14

"Registration will take place on TCG+, and the registration page can be accessed via the button below. Tutorial Sessions will open for registration on a first-come, first-served basis at 11:00 AM CEST on Wednesday, October 14." Players may register for a maximum of one event, and "any attempts to circumvent this limit will result in exclusion from all demo events." The page now also lists a Logo Sticker giveaway.

Still unannounced

• Session times, length and capacity.
• A price in euros for the playmat.
• The language of the sessions. The page does not say.

Bandai's homepage schedule still labels October 28 to November 1 "Tutorial Sessions planned", and the event page ends with the notice that "the contents of the activities may change without notice."

The festival itself

Everything here comes from Lucca Comics & Games' own sites, read in Italian.

The festival's mark for this edition is on Bandai's key visual: the logo beside Naruto and Sasuke reads LUCCA60.

Lucca Crea describes the festival as "più di un festival: è una missione culturale multisfaccettata incentrata sul fumetto e sul gioco": more than a festival, a cultural mission built around comics and games. Lucca Crea is itself "società interamente di proprietà del Comune", a company wholly owned by the municipality. The show is run by the city, not by a trade fair operator.

The 2026 edition site shows ticket availability day by day. When we read it on October 5 its counter showed October 28, October 29 and November 1 as "Disponibili", available, and October 30 and 31 as "Affrettati", hurry. The main site points visitors to a vademecum covering tickets and passes, free admission, partnerships and parking. A Campfire programme in specialty shops across Italy runs from September 14 to October 10. Daily opening hours were not on the pages we read.

Where this sits

Lucca closes the European run. SPIEL Essen and Paris Games Week both run October 22 to 25, and Lucca opens three days after they close, for five days. The three Bandai pages are compared line by line in our write-up of the European stops.

Before them come New York Comic Con, October 8 to 11, and PAX Aus, October 9 to 11. After Lucca the next European date on our calendar is BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 in London, January 15 to 17, 2027, ahead of the June 2027 worldwide release.

The events page carries the full calendar, rules covers how the game is played, and the pre-orders guide explains why the June 2027 products still have no price.