Dispatches
Events
Bandai has published the operating details for its next two NARUTO CARD GAME stops: booth #2705 at the Javits Center, on-site registration, one session per person, and a promo card you only get if you have installed an app and filled in a survey.
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Promos
Bandai is putting a NARUTO CARD GAME Chakra card into a Major League Baseball stadium on September 8. It is the third version of CP-001 to be announced in six weeks, and the first NARUTO CARD GAME promo handed out somewhere that has nothing to do with tabletop gaming.
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Retail
The trade plumbing for a game that does not exist yet. Bandai's retailer page names sixteen official distributors across North America, Europe, Oceania, Latin America and the Middle East, and confirms that stores cannot order anything yet.
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Guide
Registering the NARUTO TCG UPDATES CHANNEL on Bandai's BANDAI TCG+ app is the documented condition for the CP-001 promo at New York Comic Con and PAX Aus. It takes five taps and a BANDAI NAMCO ID. Here is what each screen looks like, and what the app deliberately does not do.
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Events
Bandai's eleven city festival runs from October 2026 into early 2027. The NARUTO CARD GAME now has a dedicated page for seven stops: Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, Hong Kong S.A.R., Singapore, Orlando and London. Kuala Lumpur, Taipei, Shanghai and Tokyo still have none.
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Gen Con
The first people outside Bandai are playing the NARUTO CARD GAME this week in Indianapolis. Tutorial sessions run through August 2, they're free, and everyone who sits down walks away with CP-001, the first Chakra card ever printed.
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Reveal
Bandai put the NARUTO CARD GAME's rules, its first cards and a full pre-release roadmap into public view on July 29: five card types, a 57-card deck (1 Leader, 50 main deck, 5 Chakra, 1 Summon), Leaders on 15 Life, and a Chakra system that refreshes instead of burning out.
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Gen Con 2026
The full card reveal lands July 29, and the first public tutorial sessions run at Gen Con Indianapolis July 30 to August 2. Here's exactly what's happening, when, and how to get a seat.
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News
On the day the NARUTO CARD GAME was announced, Bandai published three sentences from Masashi Kishimoto and a drawing of Naruto and Sasuke each holding a card. Both still sit on the game's homepage, and both are still the only direct word from the author about the project.
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Announcement
Bandai Card Games has revealed a brand-new NARUTO CARD GAME: a competitive strategy TCG launching worldwide in 2027, with a special illustration from Masashi Kishimoto marking the announcement.
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