Naruto Mythos TCG Set 2 Shinobi Shiren and Set 3 Akatsuki: release dates, the US schedule and the gold cards

Naruto Mythos TCG is the one Naruto card game you can buy and play today, and its publisher, Cicaboom, has put out more dates this year than any other Naruto card line. Not all of them agree. This is every release date on the official site as of October 29, 2026, the ones that conflict, and the gap where a United States date should be.

Set 2 Shinobi Shiren: September 4, with a cancelled pre-release

The official news index dates the Set 2 announcement to April 17, 2026: "Set 2: Shinobi Shiren will be arriving this September!" The follow-up post on narutotcgmythos.com confirms that "Set 2 (1st Edition) launches worldwide on September 4 as planned, with the Booster Display", and then changes two things. The pre-release weekend of August 28 to 30 "will not take place". And the rest of the product line, Special Pack Design A, Special Pack Design B and the Team Set, moves to a second wave in October. The post adds a detail that matters for players: "a number of Set 2 cards become playable only with the release of the Special Pack Design A", so the September display did not put the whole set into circulation.

Our Mythos hub notes Set 2 as bringing new rarity tiers, refined numbering and the return of the gold cards, compiled from the official site in July. Our card database currently holds the 210 cards of Set 1, Konoha Shidō; Set 2 cards will be added as we source a complete list.

The United States: "Late September", then nothing

The official America page gives the North American schedule for the US, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. Set 1 2nd Edition had an "Official Pre-Release: August 29th, 2026". Set 2 is listed as "Late September 2026" with the line "Official release dates for those regions will be announced soon." Set 3 is "Official Release: 2027", simultaneous in all territories.

ICv2's Jeffrey Dohm-Sanchez reported on July 7, 2026 that the game was heading to US retail through Zvezdar Toys, with Set 1 on August 29, 2026, Set 2 in late September 2026 and Set 3 in Q4 2026. We could not find a published US date for Set 2 anywhere, on the official site or elsewhere, by October 29. If you are in North America and your store has Set 2 on the shelf, it arrived without a dated announcement that we can cite. Note that ICv2 names Zvezdar Toys as the US partner, while our comparison guide compiled in July records North American distribution through Rocketship Entertainment from San Diego Comic-Con; the two may both be true for different channels, and the official site does not settle it.

Set 3 Akatsuki: Early 2027, or November?

The official announcement of May 27, 2026, "Naruto Mythos TCG goes global", names the new territories, "United States, Canada, Latin America, Australia, and South Africa", and dates Set 3's pre-release and official release to "Early 2027". The America page says "2027". ICv2's July item said Q4 2026. And a search excerpt of the official roadmap page, which we could not open in full, reads "Pre-Release starts: November 7th, Official Release: November 13th", which in context would be 2026.

We cannot reconcile these from here. The dated announcement page is the primary source and it says Early 2027; the roadmap excerpt could be a later revision or an older plan, and we did not see the page. If Set 3 ships on November 13, it would land a week before Kayou's Chapter Jin Series 4 and two months after Set 2's second wave. Set 3 introduces Naruto Shippuden-era content, per the note in our Mythos data.

The gold cards

The gold cards are the collector hook of the line, and the official site has introduced two. "Excellence becomes legend", posted February 9, 2026, introduced the Rock Lee gold card; "Introducing the second gold card", posted April 13, 2026, introduced Sasuke, which arrived with Set 1 2nd Edition on June 26, 2026 per the roadmap.

The French print runs are smaller, and the figures we have seen for them do not agree with each other, so we leave them out rather than print a wrong one. Lorenzone, a French retailer, describes the Sasuke gold as twice as rare as the Rock Lee gold, which fits the English figures. The site says gold cards return in Set 2 with limited runs, and the news index lists Regionals in Orlando on September 27, 2026 and Münster on November 27 to 29, 2026, each with "an exclusive Gold Card for the champion". We found no source reporting a gold card sold out or a gold card sale price, and our index has no gold card rows, so we print none.

What our price index shows

Our Mythos price index covers Set 1 only. On October 27, 2026 it held 173 cards with an eBay asking price, the median of the five cheapest active listings, at a median of $5.34. Of the 93 cards with a 30-day comparison, 43 were listed higher than on September 23, 44 lower and 6 unchanged; the median change was 0%. The biggest 30-day fallers were the mission cards, Rescue a Friend KS-M06, Chunin Exam KS-M02 and Protect the Leader KS-M09, each down from a $35.72 median in September to between $5.34 and $9.99, with 10 to 12 listings apiece. That looks like a supply change, more copies listed, rather than a price collapse, and it is the kind of thing a second set does to the first.

What to watch

Three things would resolve this page: a dated US Set 2 announcement on the America page, a Set 3 date repeated on a dated post rather than a roadmap excerpt, and the Set 2 card list. We will update the Mythos hub when any of them appears. If you are choosing between this game and Bandai's, the NARUTO CARD GAME vs Naruto Mythos guide sets the two side by side; the short version is that Mythos is on sale now and Bandai's game is not until June 2027.