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NARUTO CARD GAME: everything Bandai has announced so far
NARUTO CARD GAME is Bandai's new trading card game, launching worldwide in June 2027 with three Starter Decks and its first Booster Pack (Bandai, October 10, 2026). Here's everything announced so far, what isn't yet, and how to tell it apart from other Naruto cards.
Source: Bandai press release, New York Comic Con, October 10, 2026. Bandai's own site still says "Summer 2027".
What to know now
Checked October 11, 2026
- Launch: June 2027, worldwide at the same time (Bandai). Bandai's own site still says "Summer 2027".
- Try it first: demo events at participating game stores from February 2027.
- Next official reveal: Jump Festa, December 2026, then the Bandai Card Games Fest in Orlando, January 7–10, 2027 (Bandai, Orlando page).
- Not announced yet: prices (no MSRP), pack and box sizes, and the exact launch day.
- 01What's coming?Decks, boosters, how it plays
- 02How do I get a Demo Deck?Demo events and Demo Decks
- 03When does what happen?From now to June 2027
- 04Where will it be sold?What Bandai has said
- 05Which Naruto cards aren't it?Look-alikes to skip
- 06What happened last time?One Piece and Gundam launches
What's coming at launch
The launch lineup is three ready-to-play Starter Decks and one Booster Pack; Bandai hasn't announced prices or card counts for either.
- Starter Decks3
Led by Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha and Gaara; "pre-constructed with all the cards needed to start playing". Price and card count not announced.
- Booster Pack 1"Enter: Naruto Uzumaki!"
Characters from NARUTO and NARUTO SHIPPUDEN. Cards per pack, packs per box and price not announced.
Quotes and lineup: Bandai, October 10, 2026. The game also features BORUTO characters (same release).
How it plays
Bandai says: players win by "attacking to reduce the opponent's Leader's Life to zero." The Leader is "the heart of a player's deck"; Characters are "a player's front line" and "can unleash Jutsu, such as Ninjutsu, by paying a Chakra cost"; Chakra is "a player's resource pool"; and a Summon card is "a required card to bring Character cards into battle."
Bandai, July 29, 2026. Full rules, rarities and deck-building limits aren't published yet.
How to get a Demo Deck
Events at participating game stores where you "can try the cards in person and learn the rules". Bandai hasn't said whether they cost anything. Wave 1 is select large BANDAI TCG+ stores; Wave 2 adds more stores later. Bandai hasn't posted the store list yet (Bandai).
A worldwide campaign to distribute them so players can "experience the basic flow of the game … at their own pace ahead of launch". Bandai hasn't said yet how they'll be distributed, whether they cost anything, or what's inside one (Bandai).
Demos at shows such as Gen Con and New York Comic Con. The demo decks there aren't take-home, but finishing a session got players the promo "CP-001 Chakra Card" if they'd joined Bandai's NARUTO updates channel in the BANDAI TCG+ app and completed a survey (Bandai, Gen Con page).
An "Official Playmat - NARUTO VS. SASUKE" and a "Premium Card Collection Vol.00 - CHAKRA Set" are sold only at Premier Demo Events and select BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest stops, including Orlando (January 7–10, 2027) and London (January 15–17, 2027). Prices not announced (Bandai).
Be ready: make a BANDAI NAMCO ID, install the BANDAI TCG+ app and join the "NARUTO TCG UPDATES CHANNEL", which is where Bandai posts updates (Bandai). When the store list appears, ask your local game store whether it's hosting.
Dates from now to launch
- SPIEL Essen and Paris Games Week: Tutorial Sessions. Then Lucca (Oct 28 – Nov 1) and Tabletop.me Dubai (Nov 6–8).
- Jump Festa 2027: Bandai's "next major NARUTO CARD GAME update".
- BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest Orlando, Jan 7–10 and London, Jan 15–17: Tutorial Sessions and the event exclusives.
- Premier Demo Events start at participating game stores.
- 1 million Demo Decks worldwide.
- Launch: three Starter Decks and Booster Pack 1, worldwide.
Dates from Bandai's October 10 release and its official event pages. No prerelease has been announced.
Where it will be sold: what Bandai has said
Bandai sells its card games through game stores that join its BANDAI TCG+ program; its retailer page says details on how stores can carry NARUTO CARD GAME "will be available soon". It names four official US distributors: GTS, Universal Distribution, PHD Games and Southern Hobby (Bandai). None had listed NARUTO CARD GAME products or prices as of October 10, 2026.
Bandai hasn't said whether it will sell through Premium Bandai lotteries, or whether big stores like Target or Walmart will carry it at launch. In Europe, Asmodee will distribute it to "hobby retailers, specialty retailers and mass markets retailers" (Asmodee, July 30, 2026). When pre-orders open, MSRP is the yardstick; we'll list it as soon as Bandai or a distributor publishes it.
05Not the same game: Naruto cards you'll see that aren't this
Naruto Mythos, Kayou cards and Bandai's older Naruto games are different products.
Search "Naruto cards" on a marketplace today and you'll find plenty, but none of it is NARUTO CARD GAME, which doesn't exist in stores until 2027. These are different products, not fakes:
A separate game from another publisher, with sets named Konoha Shidō, Shinobi Shiren and Akatsuki.
Collectible packs sold by tier and wave (for example "Tier 3 Wave 2"), plus the NARUTO-Smriti line. Collectible cards, not this game.
Bandai's first English Naruto card game ran from 2006 to 2013 (ICv2). Its cards and boxes still sell as vintage.
Japanese Carddass "Naruto Card Game" cards from the 2000s, and the "Naruto Boruto Card Game" sets, are different games too, even where the name looks close.
How to tell: look for the "NARUTO CARD GAME" logo, BANDAI CARD GAMES as the publisher, and a 2027 release. Before June 2027, a listing that claims to sell NARUTO CARD GAME boosters is a pre-order at best; with no MSRP published yet, there's nothing to judge its price against.
06What happened at Bandai's last two launches
Context from One Piece and Gundam, not a prediction.
Context only; it doesn't tell us what will happen with Naruto.
- 2006Bandai's first Naruto game sold out its first hobby shipment and went back to press: "There is no more product of any quantity left in our warehouse" (ICv2, July 9, 2006).
- 2022
- 2024–25
Bandai itself has said that slow translation "causes variation in the timing of product releases between regions" and called the result "lost business opportunities"; it launched Gundam in three languages at once (Bandai Namco, Integrated Report 2025). Whatever the first boxes sell for, the price on the box is the yardstick.
Everything here is what Bandai has announced as of October 10–11, 2026; we'll update this guide as products, prices and dates are published. Prices quoted for One Piece and Gundam are dated reports, not predictions.