NARUTO CARD GAME at NYCC 2026: tickets, booths 3001 and 2705, panel

New York Comic Con is the second stop on the NARUTO CARD GAME's pre-release tour and the first since the world debut at Gen Con. Bandai published its page for the show on August 7, 2026, and has since rewritten the part that matters most to anyone planning to play.

When we read the page on September 2 it said registration for the Tutorial Sessions was planned to take place on-site on the day. When we read it again on October 5 that line was gone, replaced by a ticket requirement, a second booth, a ticket for the playmat, an event map, a sticker giveaway and a panel. Bandai does not date its edits, and the page still carries its August 07, 2026 post date, so all we can say is that the change appeared between those two checks. This page describes the listing as it stands on October 5, 2026. The short version of what changed is in our news report.

At a glance

New York Comic Con's own site lists the show as October 08 to 11, 2026 at the Javits Center and describes the 2026 edition as its twentieth anniversary, pointing visitors to a tickets page for pricing and badge types. Its Maps and Hours page gives the show floor hours as 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Sunday. Bandai has not published session times of its own.

How to get into a session: two booths, in this order

The pitch is unchanged: join a Tutorial Session and learn how to play in a fun, immersive way. Admission to the session is free, over and above the badge. What changed is how you get a seat. Bandai's page now reads:

A tutorial session ticket is required to participate in a Tutorial Session. Tickets will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis each morning when the venue opens at [BANDAI Namco Naruto Booth #3001]. Please note that this is a different location from [BANDAI CARD GAMES Booth #2705], where the Tutorial Sessions will take place.

Put as a sequence for the morning:

1. Before you travel, register the NARUTO TCG UPDATES CHANNEL on BANDAI TCG+. It is the condition for the participant gifts and for the free sticker, and it needs a BANDAI NAMCO ID.
2. Bring your NYCC badge for that day. Bandai repeats that participation in any of the activities requires entry to New York Comic Con.
3. When the venue opens, go to BANDAI Namco Naruto Booth #3001, not to #2705. This is where tutorial session tickets are distributed, first-come, first-served, each morning.
4. If you also want the playmat, the retail ticket is at BANDAI CARD GAMES Booth #2705. It is a separate ticket at a separate booth, also distributed first-come, first-served each morning when the venue opens.
5. Play your session at BANDAI CARD GAMES Booth #2705. Bandai has not published session times, so check the time when you collect the ticket.
6. Complete the survey after the session. Only then, and only with the channel registered, are you eligible for the CP-001 Chakra Card and the Logo Sticker.

Bandai's phrase is "when the venue opens" and it gives no clock time. NYCC's own hours page lists the show floor as opening at 10:00 AM on all four days.

Both tickets are released at the same moment at two different booths. The page does not say how many of either are available per day, whether one person may collect both, or whether a tutorial ticket is for a set time. If you want the session and the playmat, you will have to decide which queue to join first, and Bandai offers no guidance on that.

The other conditions carry over unchanged from the earlier version of the page:

• Demo decks are not available to take home.
• One tutorial session per person across the whole of New York Comic Con.
• Participation prizes are limited to one per person regardless of how many sessions are reserved or attended.

As before, the New York listing drops one Gen Con rule: there is no mention of a closed room or a recording ban. It does not say recording is permitted either. It simply is not addressed.

The event map

The page now carries a map under the heading Event Map. It is a crop of the floor plan, not the whole building, and it shows the following and nothing more:

• Booth 2705, shaded orange, with the BANDAI CARD GAMES and NARUTO CARD GAME logos and the label "Retail Tickets will be distributed each morning."
• Booth 3001, shaded blue, with the BANDAI NAMCO logo and the label "Tutorial Session Tickets will be distributed each morning."
• Three neighbouring booths in grey: 2401 to the left of 2705, 2805 immediately to its right, and 3007 further right, above 3001.
• An area at the lower left marked WILL CALL & REGISTRATION.

The map carries no scale, no session times and no queue markings. For the full building, NYCC publishes its own downloadable maps on its Maps and Hours page.

The promo, and the app you need first

Two items go to Tutorial Session participants:

• CP-001 Chakra Card
• Logo Sticker

Note the naming. The Gen Con card was labelled Gen Con 2026 Ver. and the Yankee Stadium card is labelled New York Yankees Ver.; this one carries no version suffix at all, and the same un-suffixed name appears on the PAX Aus listing. Whether that means one shared convention printing or simply an unfinished product name, Bandai has not said. The versions are tracked on our CP-001 guide.

The condition attached to both items is the one worth acting on before you travel. Only participants registered to the NARUTO TCG UPDATES CHANNEL on BANDAI TCG+ who complete a survey after the session are eligible. BANDAI TCG+ is Bandai's card game app, the channel is a news feed rather than an event entry, and registering it requires a BANDAI NAMCO ID. Doing that at home is considerably less annoying than doing it in a convention hall on shared wi-fi. Our step-by-step guide to the channel walks through each screen.

Note that the channel is still not how you book a session. At New York the seat comes from the ticket handed out at booth #3001; the app only decides whether you leave with the gifts.

The sticker giveaway

The revised page adds a Giveaways section with one item, the Logo Sticker, and one line: register for the NARUTO TCG UPDATES CHANNEL on BANDAI TCG+ and receive a free sticker. That is listed separately from the participant gifts, so the sticker is the one item on the page that is not tied to playing a session.

The New York wording is narrower than the one Bandai uses elsewhere. The PAX Aus and Gen Con pages also offer the sticker for following one of Bandai's social channels; the New York page lists only the TCG+ registration. It does not say at which of the two booths the sticker is collected.

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 and available in limited quantities each day.

The revised page adds a gate. A retail ticket is required to purchase a Playmat, and those tickets are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis each morning when the venue opens at BANDAI CARD GAMES Booth #2705.

That is a different gate from Gen Con's. In Indianapolis the playmat was sold only to people holding a Purchase Ticket earned by completing a tutorial, and the ticket expired the same day. In New York the retail ticket is handed out at the booth in the morning, and the page does not connect it to the Tutorial Session at all. It does not say how many retail tickets there are each day or whether a ticket is valid only on the day it is issued. It also does not say whether you carry the mat out of the building or receive it in 2027, which the product name rather pointedly leaves open.

This was the only price Bandai had attached to anything in this game until October 13, 2026, when its Premier Demo Event page priced a $20 Chakra Set and a $40 playmat. The Starter Decks and Booster Pack 01 announced for June 2027 still have no set code or MSRP, which is why every "pre-order" listing you can find today is a placeholder. That argument is set out in full in our pre-orders guide.

The panel: NARUTO: What's Next?

The largest addition is not at either booth. Bandai's page now lists a panel:

Bandai's description, in full:

Join us for an exclusive look at what's next for NARUTO with our guests, voice actors Junko Takeuchi (Naruto Uzumaki) and Noriaki Sugiyama (Sasuke Uchiha)! Get the latest updates on the anime, the NARUTO CARD GAME, and other exciting new projects. Plus, be among the first to see the new roadmap for the future of the NARUTO universe!

The card game is one of three named subjects, alongside the anime and "other exciting new projects". Bandai's own welcome page has pointed at this show for some time: its Roadmap section reads "More new information will be revealed at New York Comic Con!", a line that was already there when we checked on September 2.

Bandai's page gives the day and the room and links to New York Comic Con's own listing for the rest. That listing carries the same description, puts the panel at 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM, and adds one line Bandai's page does not have: a "special door giveaway, while supplies last". It does not say what the giveaway is.

What the official NARUTO site adds

The franchise's own site, naruto-official.com, posted a news item dated 09/29/2026 about the same stage. It is not a Bandai card game page, and it carries a notice that some of its articles contain machine-translated text, so we quote it rather than paraphrase:

• The card game is on the agenda. The post says two things "have been revealed this time": the planned announcement of "world premiere information regarding a completely new anime", and the unveiling of "the latest information on the NARUTO CARD GAME", which it describes as "scheduled for release in 2027".
• The time, in two zones. "[Local Time] Saturday, October 10, 2026, 5:00 PM" to 6:00 PM, and "[Japan Time] Sunday, October 11, 2026, 6:00 AM" to 7:00 AM. Local time in New York is Eastern, and the hour matches NYCC's listing.
• A third guest. Alongside Junko Takeuchi and Noriaki Sugiyama it names "Tominaga (Executive Producer, Studio Pierrot / PIERROT FILMS), and more".
• A live stream. "A simultaneous worldwide live stream of this stage has been confirmed to start at 6:00 AM on Sunday, October 11th (Japan Time) on the official NARUTO / BORUTO YouTube channel". The link it gives is youtube.com/live/G2B8oLsZNeU.

So anyone without a seat, or without a badge, has an official way to watch. Bandai's card game page does not mention the stream. None of these pages says what the card game information is or what the roadmap covers, and we are not going to guess.

The listing is tagged Reservation Needed. NYCC's reservations page says every Empire Stage and Main Stage panel requires a reservation, that panel reservations operate first-come, first-served through its reservation site for anyone with an NYCC 2026 ticket assigned to their email address, and that they opened on September 10 at 12:00 PM ET. It asks reservation holders to head up to Level 5 at least 35 minutes before the start time. For those without one, it says there will be "very limited standby lines" for the Empire Stage and that standby is not guaranteed. We could not see from outside the reservation system whether seats for this panel remain.

One related item is on NYCC's schedule but not on Bandai's page: a NARUTO Signing with the same two voice actors on Saturday from 10:45 AM to 11:45 AM in Room 1A01, marked reservation required, with one signature per person on an item provided by VIZ. NYCC's reservations page says the entry period for signing reservations closed on September 16 and that there are no standby lines for those sessions. It is not a card game activity.

What is not here

The Gen Con set included a special backpack. The New York listing does not mention one. Bandai has not explained the difference; it is simply absent from the page.

Also absent, even after the rewrite: session times, the length of a session, the number of tutorial or retail tickets per day, and any indication of what the demo decks contain. The page closes with Bandai's standing note that the contents of the activities may change without notice, which the past month has shown is meant literally. Check Bandai's page again on the morning you go.

What the panel announced

The NARUTO: What's Next? stage on Saturday, October 10 delivered the card game news the official NARUTO site had promised: a June 2027 simultaneous worldwide release, three Starter Decks (Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, Gaara) and Booster Pack 01, "Enter: NARUTO UZUMAKI!" releasing together that month, a Studio Pierrot animated trailer, Premier Demo Events at stores from early 2027, a 1,000,000 demo deck campaign for Spring 2027, and a next reveal at Jump Festa on December 19 to 20. Bandai's report page followed on October 13. The full write-up is here.

Where this sits

New York Comic Con opens the busiest month of the pre-release tour. PAX Aus runs October 9 to 11 in Melbourne, overlapping by three days, which puts the game on two continents at once for the first time; Spiel Essen, Paris Games Week and Lucca follow. The convention phase runs into BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27, where NARUTO is confirmed at Orlando and London in January 2027, the same month in-store tutorial sessions begin, ahead of the June 2027 worldwide release.

Our report on the ticket change and the panel is here. The September write-up comparing the New York and Melbourne listings, since updated, is here, the confirmed mechanics are in the rules guide, and the full calendar is on the events page.