NARUTO CARD GAME releases June 2027: three starter decks, Booster Pack 01 and a million demo decks

For sixteen months the release of the NARUTO CARD GAME was a season. On Saturday, October 10, 2026, Naruto's birthday, Bandai took the Empire Stage at New York Comic Con for the NARUTO: What's Next? panel, and the season became a month: June 2027, worldwide, with the launch products named for the first time. A press release went out the same evening, and on October 13 Bandai posted a report page in all four of its site's languages.

Everything below is from those pages and the press release. Where Bandai's own sources differ in wording we say so. Where Bandai has not said something, we say that too, because the gaps are where the guesswork on other sites begins.

June 2027, simultaneous worldwide

The press release says the game "will launch simultaneously worldwide in June 2027." The report page says a new trailer "along with the June 2027 official release schedule" was announced at New York Comic Con, and the Japanese page puts it as 2027年6月に全世界同時発売. Bandai's homepage, which had read "Arriving in Summer 2027" since July 29, now reads Arriving in June 2027, and its schedule strip marks 2027/06 as the Scheduled Release.

No day is given. Our release date page now carries June 2027 and will carry the day when Bandai publishes one.

The trailer was "animated by Studio Pierrot, the studio behind NARUTO and NARUTO: SHIPPUDEN". It is on YouTube as the NARUTO CARD GAME Special Animated Trailer. Bandai's page describes it as a teaser; it does not claim the trailer shows gameplay, and we are not going to read cards off animation frames.

The launch products

Three Starter Decks, releasing in June 2027. Bandai's words: "These 3 pre-constructed decks, themed around Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and Gaara, contain all the cards you need to start the game, letting you enjoy them right out of the box. With different leaders at the helm, you'll use the unique skillsets of your Ninjas, and your own game winning strategy, to battle with an opponent!"

Two of the three Leaders are already on our card list: Naruto Uzumaki (N-001) and Sasuke Uchiha (N-012), the two Leaders Bandai revealed on July 29 and the two decks used at every tutorial session so far. A Gaara Leader has not been shown. Whether the June decks contain the same N-001 and N-012 cards, or new versions, is not stated. Deck codes such as ST-01 have appeared in trade press; they are on no Bandai page we can find, so we do not print them.

Booster Pack 01, "Enter: NARUTO UZUMAKI!", "releasing with the 3 Starter Decks", will "feature many beloved characters from both NARUTO and NARUTO: SHIPPUDEN." The card game site prints the title as "Enter: NARUTO UZUMAKI!" in its heading and "Enter: UZUMAKI NARUTO!" in the body; the NARUTO anime site's post calls it "Here Comes Naruto Uzumaki!". The Japanese title is 参上！うずまきナルト. We use the card game site's heading until Bandai settles it.

What Bandai has not published for any of these: a set code (the revealed cards still carry reveal-order numbers like N-001), the number of cards in a deck or a booster box, the number of packs in a box, a rarity breakdown, or a price. Every pre-order listing with a box price on it today is still a shop's guess, as the pre-order guide explains. The announced lineup is kept current on the products page.

Premier Demo Events and the first priced products

"In 2027, we'll be hosting Premier Demo Events at select stores in all regions," the report says, with "regular Tutorial Sessions becoming available at a wider variety of store locations later on." The press release dates them: they "begin February 2027 at participating TCG stores", with Wave 1 at "select large-scale stores participating in BANDAI TCG+" and Wave 2 at more stores. At those events two products go on sale in limited quantities: the Official Playmat Naruto vs. Sasuke and the Premium Card Collection vol.00 Chakra Set.

The separate Premier Demo Event page, posted October 13, gives the dates, the application method and the prices: the Chakra Set at 20 USD and the playmat at 40 USD, both also sold at the Orlando and London Fest stops. It also shows the set's six cards, which are the first new NARUTO CARD GAME cards since July. All of that is in our Premier Demo Events report and on the event page.

One million demo decks

"In Spring 2027, we're planning a global campaign to distribute 1,000,000 demo decks all over the world!" The Japanese page gives the same figure, 合計100万個. The stated aim is for players to "grasp the fundamental mechanics of the game" before release. How the decks will be distributed, through stores, events or something else, is not said; "more information to be revealed on our official website and social media channels."

For scale: every convention tutorial so far has used demo decks that cannot be taken home. A take-home demo deck in the hands of a million people is a different kind of pre-release, and it lands two or three months before the June launch.

What was not announced

• A day in June.
• Set codes, card counts, pack counts, rarities or prices for the Starter Decks and Booster Pack 01.
• A Gaara Leader card, or any card from the booster.
• Organised play, a tournament format or a comprehensive rulebook.
• Any change to the game's rules as published on July 29. Our rules page stands as it was.

Next: Jump Festa 2027, December 19 to 20

The report page ends: "The next big reveal is coming in December 2026, at Jump Festa!" The NARUTO official site says the same and names the event, Jump Festa 2027, which Shueisha's site dates December 19 and 20, 2026 at Makuhari Messe. The card game is also the only dated item on the NARUTO site's PROJECT RASENGAN roadmap, listed as "06/2027 RELEASE". The event is on our events page.

Until then the calendar runs through Spiel Essen and Paris Games Week on October 22 to 25, Lucca from October 28, Tabletop.me in Dubai on November 6 to 8, and the Fest stops. Every stop is on the events page, and what we know has been updated to match.