Everything we know about the Naruto card game

Bandai Card Games announced the NARUTO CARD GAME on June 18, 2026, alongside a special illustration and comment from series creator Masashi Kishimoto. Bandai describes it as a strategy-focused title aimed at the competitive trading card game audience — the same lane as its One Piece and Digimon card games, not a casual collector product.

The game launches worldwide in June 2027, released simultaneously rather than staggered by region, a departure from the usual Japan-first pattern. The month was announced at New York Comic Con on October 10, 2026, together with the launch lineup: three Starter Decks (Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, Gaara) and Booster Pack 01, Enter: NARUTO UZUMAKI!. In-store Premier Demo Events run from January 2027 in Japan and February 2027 in the English regions.

No day in June, set code, card list or price has been published for the launch products. The products page tracks each item.

On Wednesday, July 29, 2026 — the day before Gen Con opened — Bandai published the game's rules framework, its first card art and a full pre-release event roadmap. The reveal confirmed five card types (Leader, Character, EX Character, Chakra and Summon), the 50 + 5 Chakra + 1 Summon deck skeleton, and a win condition tied to reducing the opposing Leader's Life to zero.

29 gameplay cards were shown with full stats and ability text. We have transcribed all of them in the card list, and broken down the confirmed mechanics in the rules guide.

The game made its world debut at Gen Con Indianapolis (July 30 – August 2, 2026) with the first-ever NARUTO CARD GAME tutorial sessions — the first time anyone outside Bandai played it. The tour continues through BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27, New York Comic Con (October 8–11), PAX Australia, Spiel Essen, Paris Games Week and Lucca Comics & Games. The full schedule is on the events page.

Four announcements landed after Gen Con, all of them logistics rather than gameplay:

• A stadium promo. The CP-001 Chakra Card -New York Yankees Ver.- will be distributed at Yankee Stadium on September 8, 2026. Bandai publishes no print run, per-person limit or eligibility rules.
• Convention details. New York Comic Con (October 8 to 11) runs sessions at booth #2705 and hands out the tickets for them each morning at booth #3001. PAX Aus (October 9 to 11) takes registration on BANDAI TCG+. Both allow one session per person, and the CP-001 promo requires registering the NARUTO TCG UPDATES CHANNEL on BANDAI TCG+ plus a post-session survey. SPIEL Essen, Paris Games Week and Lucca Comics & Games follow from October 22.
• Nine Fest stops. BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 tours eleven cities, and Bandai’s NARUTO site has dedicated pages for nine of them: Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, Hong Kong S.A.R., Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei, Orlando and London. Shanghai and Tokyo do not have one yet.
• A distributor list. Sixteen official distributors across North America, Europe, Oceania, Latin America and the Middle East — with no products, order windows or MSRPs attached.

Until October 13, 2026 the only price Bandai had published for anything was the $35 (+tax) Official Playmat; the Premier Demo Event page then priced a $20 Chakra Set vol.00 and a $40 Naruto vs. Sasuke playmat. Everything on the events page is dated from Bandai's own listings.

At the NARUTO: What's Next? stage on October 10, 2026, and in a report page posted October 13, Bandai set the release at June 2027 and named the launch products: three Starter Decks (Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, Gaara) and Booster Pack 01, Enter: NARUTO UZUMAKI!, drawing on both NARUTO and NARUTO: SHIPPUDEN. A Studio Pierrot animated trailer premiered on stage.

• Premier Demo Events at participating BANDAI TCG+ stores: Japan from January 16, 2027 at eleven stores; English regions Wave 1 February 5 to 19 and Wave 2 February 19 to March 5, 2027, with applications in the TCG+ app from January.
• Two priced products: the Premium Card Collection vol.00 Chakra Set at 20 USD and the Official Playmat Naruto vs. Sasuke at 40 USD, sold at Premier Demo Events and at the Orlando and London Fests. The set's images show the first Summon card, S-001, and Chakra cards C-002 to C-005.
• 1,000,000 demo decks to be distributed worldwide in Spring 2027.
• The next big reveal is at Jump Festa, December 19 to 20, 2026.

Reports: the June 2027 announcement and the Premier Demo Events.

The list is shorter than it was. Bandai's how-to-play guide sets out a 5-card opening hand, one mulligan for the player going second only, and a turn of two phases, Draw then Main, with 2 cards drawn per turn after the first. Those figures are on the rules page. Still open:

• The day in June, and set codes, card lists and prices for the three Starter Decks and Booster Pack 01
• How many copies of one card number a deck may contain
• How the starting player is decided, and whether there is a hand size limit
• Rarity structure and chase-card treatment at launch
• Whether the Chakra Set vol.00 cards (C-001 to C-005, S-001) are the same cards as in the Starter Decks
• Organized play plans and locals support