Are old Naruto CCG cards going up in price? What the eBay listings say in October 2026

Search "Naruto cards going up" this month and you get a price guide, two YouTube titles and a forum post that say yes. Search "Naruto CCG completed sales" and you get single sales under $20. Both are real; they are mostly about different cards and different games. This piece puts the claims next to our own eBay index for Bandai's 2006 to 2013 Naruto CCG, scanned on October 27, 2026.

What people are hearing

TheLines, a betting and collectibles affiliate site, carries a Naruto page by Ijeoma Izuchukwu, fact-checked by Carson Mundy and "Last Updated at October 22, 2026", that opens with: "The price of Naruto cards has only been going in one direction lately: up!" Its five headline figures are a Kayou Uzumaki Naruto NRZ08-ASP-001 PSA 10 at "$20,000", a Kayou Ninja Age NRCCNA XR-001L5 BGS 10 at "$14,999", a "2010 Naruto CCG Set 19: Path of Pain, PSA 10" at "$8,993.88", a 2008 V Jump Festa Data Carddass at "$8,400" and an Itachi Uchiha PRN7 event promo PSA 10 at "$7,000". Two of the five are Kayou cards, one is a Carddass card, and none has a sale date or a listing link. The Path of Pain figure, attributed to an Australian collector with the odd cents explained as "a currency conversion fee", is the only one that concerns the 2006 to 2013 CCG, and we could not find it anywhere else. Treat it as uncorroborated until someone shows the sale.

price-base.com, a Japanese price-guide site, wrote on July 30, 2026 that "interest in the old NARUTO cards has risen since the new NARUTO card game was announced" (our translation). It names no old card and no price.

A Skool post by Zack Fair in the Card Flipping Loop community, dated June 28, after Bandai's June 18 announcement, says "I'm bullish on naruto currently", that two Kayou cards "have gone up in price" since the announcement, and that Bandai's old cards "already exist and they are going up as well but aren't as easily attainable." No cards or figures are in the text.

On YouTube, Kaizoku Ice TCG has a video titled "I Spent $100 on Naruto Cards... Now They're Worth $5,000" and the French channel EliasObnTv has "Naruto revient chez Bandai... et ces anciens items valent de l'or !" (these old items are worth gold). We could retrieve only the titles, not the cards or dates.

That is the whole case for "up": one undated price-guide line, one line about interest, one forum post and two video titles.

What our index shows

Our index re-checks each card's active eBay listings about weekly and records the asking price, the median of the five cheapest listings. It is not a sold price and it is not a value. A 30-day or 7-day change is reported only when both scans had at least three listings, and the 30-day comparison runs against our September 23 scan.

For the old CCG, more cards rose than fell over 30 days, but the median card did not move and the sample is 130 of 1,694. Over seven days, where the sample is 328 cards, more than half were flat. Of the 1,694 priced cards, 617 are listed under $5, 615 between $5 and $20, 320 between $20 and $50 and 142 at $50 or more. Kayou's 30-day sample is too thin to read (24 cards, and 21 of those fell); its 7-day figures, from 357 cards, show more fallers than risers. Mythos is split down the middle.

The cards that moved most in 30 days, limited to cards with at least three listings at both ends:

Read the listing counts. A card with three listings moves 80% when one seller relists. Sharingan Eye j007 went from a $51.52 median to $9.99 because cheap copies missing in September are back, not because anyone sold anything. The seven-day data has a sharper example: Sasuke Uchiha n020 from The Path to Hokage read $5,225 on October 22 and $450 on October 26, five listings each time: a 91% fall that is one five-figure listing dropping out of the cheapest five.

The most expensive old cards by asking price, with at least three listings:

None of the top three has a 30-day comparison, because none had three listings in September. The Path of Pain card TheLines may be pointing at, Pain (Deva Path), is asked at $2,000 with the cheapest copy at $1,050: a long way from $8,993.88, and nobody has to pay it.

What the sceptics say

narutotcgcards.com, a competing fan site, published a history of every Naruto card game on October 10, 2026 and put completed sales on it: "Here are three completed sales, all ungraded 1st Edition Gold Super Rares, shipping extra": Lightning Blade #US066 for $19.69, The Third Hokage #163 for $10.00 and Shadow Clone Jutsu #US001 for $8.25. Its reading: "Asking prices on eBay aren't sale prices", "There's a real market, but it's uneven" and "A game being cancelled doesn't make its cards valuable." No sale dates are given.

Hobby Card Index, in a hub last updated May 20, 2026, before Bandai's announcement, wrote: "For the Bandai CCG, the rough version is that most singles are bulk, a dollar or two, often less." Super Rares and popular characters "can reach the 10 to 50 dollar range", graded and sealed copies "sometimes into the low hundreds", and "the buyer pool is small so cards can sit for a long time." It calls the market "Thin, nostalgia-driven". Those bands match our distribution: more than a third of priced cards under $5, 142 of 1,694 at $50 or more.

gamertagmythras.com wrote on August 2, 2026: "If you are hoping the cards are a retirement plan: I am not going there, and neither should anyone selling you a price guide", while allowing that the 2027 game is "exactly the kind of event that moves an old market in an unpredictable direction."

The card that really moved: CP-001

The 2026 Naruto price story that has sold data behind it is a card from the game that has not launched. Bandai's CP-001 Chakra Card is the promo handed out at NARUTO CARD GAME tutorial sessions, starting at Gen Con in late July; our guide to every CP-001 version lists the distributions.

Even here the caveats are on the page: NarutoMarket's 22.8% rise is measured from four asking-price listings, Resell Calendar itself expected the 40,000-copy Yankees version and the NYCC version to come in far lower, and we found no post-NYCC sold data for the NYCC version anywhere. Resell Calendar's framing of the old game, on June 19, was that Bandai "ran a Naruto Collectible Card Game from 2006 to 2013, but that was a different era of the hobby."

If you have a box of old Naruto cards

Go by sale prices, not asking prices, and expect most of the box to be bulk. Are old Naruto cards worth anything? walks through identifying a card's line and reading its dated asking price; Where to buy and sell Naruto cards covers the marketplaces. The full old-CCG index, sortable by 7-day and 30-day change, is at /prices/naruto-ccg, and the weekly report tracks the three lines side by side.

We will revisit this when the 30-day sample is bigger and after Jump Festa on December 19 and 20. If the old cards start moving as a market, the figures above will show it. On October 27, 2026, they do not.