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“Naruto card game” does not describe one product. It describes five, made by four different companies across twenty years, and most of the confusion online comes from writing about them as though they were the same thing.
These guides are the evergreen half of this site. Where the news desk reports what changed on a given day, a guide answers a question that stays answered: what the game is, how a rule works, which line a card in your hand belongs to, what a rarity code means. Each one is revised in place when Bandai, Kayou or Cicaboom publish something new, and each carries the primary sources it was built from at the foot of the page.
Bandai's NARUTO CARD GAME does not release until Summer 2027, so much about it is still unknown. Where that is true, these guides say so rather than guessing.
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Twenty-nine numbered sets, four tournament packs, four tins and a promo pool, listed in release order with the years our archive records, plus the three things about this list that nobody can settle, including when the game actually ended.
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The two games share a publisher and a win condition, and almost nothing else that has been published. Here is the line-by-line comparison, with the Naruto side marked where Bandai has stated nothing at all.
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Two different companies are selling two different Naruto card games under names that are almost impossible to tell apart in a search box. One of them you can buy today. The other does not exist as a product yet.
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You can find NARUTO CARD GAME booster boxes listed for pre-order today, with prices attached. Bandai has not announced a booster box, a set code, or a price. Both of those sentences are true, and this page explains how.
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Twenty-three rarity codes, five box tiers, two rarity systems, and a set of English collector guides that cannot agree on what half the letters stand for. Here is our full chart, with Kayou's own names marked where we could verify them.
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Yes, and that is the easy half of the answer. Five separate Naruto card lines exist, made by four companies over twenty-four years, and the one most people are searching for does not go on sale until Summer 2027.
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Bandai's own title list names seven card games. One of them does not go on sale for another ten months. Here is the full roster, what each one runs on, and what the GUNDAM CARD GAME launch tells you about the shape of the NARUTO one.
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UNION ARENA carries dozens of anime licences and Naruto is not one of them, in English or in Japanese. Bandai's answer to Naruto was a standalone game with its own engine, and it does not arrive until Summer 2027.
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CP-001 is the only NARUTO CARD GAME card with a product code, nine months before there is a product. Four distributions have been announced across three months, and the conditions attached to each one differ.
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