CP-001 Chakra Card: every promo version and how to get one

The NARUTO CARD GAME does not go on sale until June 2027. Bandai has named three Starter Decks and Booster Pack 01 for that month, but has published no set code, card list or price for any of them.

There is, however, CP-001, a Chakra card that has now been announced for seven separate giveaways on Bandai's NARUTO CARD GAME site, between July 30 and November 1, 2026, in five countries, under three different printed names. It is the first NARUTO CARD GAME card to exist as a physical object in public hands, and it is worth understanding exactly what it is before the resale listings get ahead of the facts.

What a Chakra card is

Bandai's game has five card types: Leader, Character, EX Character, Chakra and Summon. Chakra is the resource type. Every deck runs exactly five Chakra cards. Bandai's press release describes a deck as "a deck of 51 cards, 5 Chakra cards, and 1 Summon card," which this site reads as 1 Leader + 50 main deck + 5 Chakra + 1 Summon, or 57 cards in total.

Chakra is spent by flipping cards face-down to pay for Jutsu and Support abilities, and both revealed Leaders carry a [Recovery] ability that rests the Leader to flip all of your Chakra face-up again. It is a renewable pool with a tempo cost, not a resource you burn through. That is why five copies is enough for a whole game.

More on the type at Chakra cards, and the deck skeleton in the rules guide.

CP-001 itself carries one printed line of text. The sample images Bandai published for it, on its Yankee Stadium and New York Comic Con pages, show it under the card name: "When using Chakra, turn this card face-down." That is the flip described above, printed on the card. Whether CP-001 is legal in constructed play is not publicly known.

Every announced version

Three distinguishable printings of one card number, two tied to a specific event and one serving as the general convention handout, established before a single retail product exists.

The condition most people miss

At every convention stop, the card is not simply handed to anyone who plays. Bandai's wording is consistent across the Gen Con, NYCC, PAX Aus, SPIEL Essen, Paris Games Week and Lucca pages: 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 gifts.

BANDAI TCG+ is Bandai's card-game app. It handles event applications, check-in and match results across its TCG titles. Registering the NARUTO channel means:

1. Tap the TCG title at the top of the screen
2. Select NARUTO CARD GAME and press [Change]
3. Tap [Event Details] on the NARUTO TCG UPDATES CHANNEL, then [Confirm Event Series]
4. Tap [Apply], then [Confirm Contents and Apply]
5. Log in with a BANDAI NAMCO ID

Bandai is explicit that this channel "is not for event participation at a venue". It exists only to push updates. It is a marketing list that happens to gate a promo card.

The practical consequence: the barrier is an app install and an account creation. Do it before you travel, not in the queue on show-day Wi-Fi.

What changed between Gen Con and October

Three things, all of them worth knowing if you are planning around NYCC or PAX Aus.

Registration moved, and then moved again. Gen Con tutorial tickets were booked weeks ahead through the Gen Con events system. On September 2 the NYCC and PAX Aus pages both said registration "is planned to take place on-site on the day of the event." Between our September 2 and October 5 checks, both changed. At NYCC a tutorial session ticket is now required, distributed first-come, first-served each morning when the venue opens at BANDAI Namco Naruto Booth #3001; the sessions themselves are at BANDAI CARD GAMES Booth #2705. At PAX Aus registration is on BANDAI TCG+: it opened at 11:00 AM AEST on Sunday, September 20, and players may register for a maximum of one event.

The backpack is gone. The Gen Con gift set included a Special Backpack, distributed in limited quantities daily on a first-come basis. Neither October listing mentions one.

The playmat mechanism differs by stop. At Gen Con, completing a tutorial session earned a Purchase Voucher, valid on the event day only, for the NARUTO CARD GAME Official Playmat -Arriving in 2027- at $35 (+tax). The NYCC and PAX Aus pages list the same playmat at the same price, one per person, in limited quantities each day. NYCC now requires a retail ticket, distributed each morning at Booth #2705. PAX Aus enters session participants into a daily raffle for the opportunity to purchase one. Neither page states whether the mat is handed over at the show.

That $35 was the only price Bandai had published for anything connected to the NARUTO CARD GAME until October 13, 2026, when its Premier Demo Event page priced the Premium Card Collection vol.00 Chakra Set at $20 and the Official Playmat Naruto vs. Sasuke at $40.

The Yankee Stadium version is the odd one

The September 8 giveaway has none of the convention structure. No booth, no tutorial session, no TCG+ requirement, no survey. Bandai's announcement names the event NARUTO x YANKEES GAME NIGHT, gives Yankee Stadium and the date, states that a Chakra card featuring the Yankees logo will be distributed there, and points readers at the Yankees' own promotions schedule for anything else.

Be blunt about what that means: Bandai does not say who gets one. Not every ticket-holder, not a section, not the first n through a gate. It publishes no basis at all. If you have seen a quantity or an eligibility rule attached to this giveaway, it did not come from this page. Our full write-up covers what the announcement does and does not contain.

It is also the first NARUTO CARD GAME promotion aimed outside the hobby entirely, at a stadium crowd, nine months before there is anything to buy.

No other product code exists

This is the part that matters for anyone reading listings.

As of October 5, 2026, CP-001 is the only NARUTO CARD GAME product code Bandai has published. The revealed gameplay cards carry N- numbers (Naruto Uzumaki is N-001, Sasuke Uchiha is N-012), and those are reveal-order numbers, not set-scoped collector numbers. Bandai has announced:

• no set code, and no set name
• no card list, pack count or price for the three Starter Decks and Booster Pack 01 announced for June 2027
• no MSRP for any card product beyond the $35 convention playmat, the $20 Chakra Set vol.00 and the $40 Naruto vs. Sasuke playmat
• no rarity scheme, no reprint policy, and no statement on whether CP cards are constructed-legal

So a listing quoting a set code, a booster SKU or a box price is quoting something Bandai has not said. Our card list tracks every revealed card and its number; the release date page tracks the roadmap to June 2027.

October 5, 2026: TCGplayer. TCGplayer, a third-party marketplace and not Bandai, announced a NARUTO CARD GAME product line on its seller blog on September 22, 2026, saying promotional cards "distributed in earlier events (such as Gen Con 2026 and at Yankee stadium) can now be listed for re-sale". When we opened its catalog on October 5 it held two entries, Chakra Card (Gen Con) and Chakra Card (New York Yankees), both numbered CP-001 in a group TCGplayer labels Promotion Cards. Those names and that label are TCGplayer's, not Bandai's, and the un-suffixed CP-001 was not listed. What sits beside each entry is a seller's asking price, not a value, and we do not quote it. Full report: TCGplayer opens a NARUTO CARD GAME line.

Where the next chances are

The convention run continues through October, with NYCC and PAX Aus overlapping by three days, followed by SPIEL Essen and Paris Games Week (both October 22 to 25) and Lucca Comics & Games (October 28 to November 1). Bandai's pages for those three, dated September 4, 2026, each list the un-suffixed CP-001 Chakra Card as the tutorial session gift.

Then comes BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27, where Bandai's NARUTO site has dedicated pages for nine of the eleven cities: Jakarta (October 10 to 11, 2026), Manila (October 24 to 25), Bangkok (November 21 to 22), Hong Kong S.A.R. (November 28 to 29), Singapore (December 5 to 6), Kuala Lumpur (December 12 to 13), Taipei (December 19 to 20), Orlando (January 7 to 10, 2027) and London (January 15 to 17, 2027). Shanghai and Tokyo do not have one yet. None of the nine pages on Bandai's NARUTO site names CP-001 or any other participant gift. The Fest's own site does: as of October 5, 2026 its NARUTO CARD GAME pages for the seven Asian stops each list "CP-001 Chakra Card" as the prize for the Teaching Session (the two Traditional Chinese pages call it the commemorative item), with no version suffix and no stated condition, and note that prizes and prize eligibilities are subject to change without prior notice. Its Orlando and London pages say only that details will be updated in the future. Bandai's own roadmap then moves to in-store tutorial sessions at local game stores from January 2027, with the official site promising only "more info coming soon" in between.

Whether CP-001 continues at Orlando, London or the in-store sessions, or a CP-002 appears, has not been announced. The events page tracks every confirmed date, and how the October tutorial sessions work covers the operating details in full.

If you are trying to work out whether the game you are looking at is even Bandai's (there is a separate, unrelated Naruto TCG on sale right now), start with which is which or the full rundown of all five Naruto card lines.