Frequently Asked Questions

A simultaneous worldwide release is planned for June 2027. It was announced at New York Comic Con 2026 on October 10, 2026 (local time), and BANDAI's official press release states "NARUTO CARD GAME will launch simultaneously worldwide in June 2027" (the July 29, 2026 reveal had said "Summer 2027"; this narrows it to a month). The exact date has not been announced. Note that as of October 11, 2026 the official site roadmap (naruto-cardgame.com) still reads "Worldwide release ( Summer 2027 )" and has not been updated to June. We follow the press release, which is newer and more specific.

A simultaneous worldwide release is planned. The official site has four regional editions — Japanese, English, English (Asia), and Traditional Chinese — but details about retail availability by country have not been announced.

An overview has been revealed. The July 29, 2026 reveal announced the basic structure: five card types (Leader, Character, EX Character, Chakra, Summon), battles with 1 Leader + a 50-card deck + 5 Chakra cards + 1 Summon card, and victory by reducing the opponent Leader's Life to 0. In addition, the official playmat distributed at Gen Con 2026 confirms a 4-phase turn (Refresh → Draw → Main → End) — read from a venue handout, not a formal announcement. Detailed rules such as what happens in each phase, and the rulebook, remain unpublished. See our explainer article for more.

Both confirmed Leader cards print LIFE 15 on the card face: Naruto Uzumaki (N-001) and Sasuke Uchiha (N-012), which also share the same DMG 1 / POW 3. The official site states the win condition as "reduce your opponent Leader's LP to 0" (the Japanese site's prose uses "LP" while the card face reads "LIFE"). With only two Leaders confirmed, however, we cannot say whether every Leader has 15. It is also unannounced how much Life a single attack removes — whether the DMG printed on a Character is what comes off the Leader's Life — so "how many attacks does it take" cannot be calculated yet. Of the 22 cards whose text can be read, only two touch the Life number: Kakashi Hatake (N-009), "reduce your Life by 2," and Karin (N-010), "gain 2 Life." No confirmed card reduces the opponent's Life directly.

The official card list is unrevealed, but sample card faces have started to appear. In the July 29, 2026 reveal, the official site posted 12 sample cards in its artwork gallery (names and traits only) and 7 more in the card-type and how-to-play sections (including the Leader "Naruto Uzumaki" N-001, with card numbers and effect text legible). Photos of English-version demo cards taken at Gen Con 2026 have also confirmed further card faces, such as the EX Characters Sasuke Uchiha (N-014) and Naruto Uzumaki (N-003) (read from venue photos — not formal announcements). Confirmed cards are added to our card database as they appear.

Unannounced. The July 29, 2026 reveal confirmed the setup — 1 Leader card + a 50-card deck + 5 Chakra cards + 1 Summon card — but no limit on copies of the same card name has been explained. Several confirmed cards reference other cards by name (for example Ino Yamanaka N-011, "if you have Shikamaru Nara and Choji Akimichi") or reveal the top of the deck for a hit check, and their real strength cannot be worked out until the copy limit is known. Awaiting the rulebook.

Their card text reads "Cannot be summoned normally"; instead they arrive by meeting the condition printed under [Summon Requirements]. On all four confirmed EX Characters the condition is a form of "place your own Characters in your trash" — Manda (N-022) needs 1 of your Characters; Gamabunta (N-005) needs 1 of your Characters with 10 or more power; Naruto Uzumaki (N-003) needs 1 of your Characters plus 1 with 10 or more power; and Sasuke Uchiha (N-014) needs 1 of your Characters plus 1 with the {The Taka} trait. The exact procedure once the condition is met (whether a Summon card is required, whether Chakra is paid) is unannounced.

Some do. Of the 24 revealed entries with readable effect text, only 4 mention the trash (the four EX Characters), and just 2 of those say they summon a Character back out of it. Gamabunta (N-005) reads "Summon 1 non-EX [Naruto Uzumaki], [Jiraiya], or [Minato Namikaze] Character from your trash," while Naruto Uzumaki (N-003) reads "up to 1 [Naruto Uzumaki] from your deck or trash" — so only N-005 names the trash exclusively. The field is the only destination written: no revealed card returns anything from the trash to hand or deck, and none touches the opponent's trash. Note also that not one card states that K.O.'d cards are placed in the trash; with the rulebook unpublished, where they go is unconfirmed.

The list of colors is unannounced. The official site describes Character cards as cards you build to match your Leader's color, so color is confirmed to be a deck-building axis — but how many colors exist, and which card is which color, has not been shown. The first entry in the trait line of confirmed cards reads Wind, Fire, Lightning, Water, Special, Taijutsu, or Illusion, and these may correspond to colors; with no official explanation, we do not state that as fact. Note also that several characters have multiple cards whose leading trait differs from one card to the next.

The card text implies it normally cannot. On Ino Yamanaka (N-011) the meaning of [Rush] is spelled out in reminder text — "(This card can attack on the turn in which it is summoned.)" — which implies that Characters normally cannot attack the turn they arrive. Only 4 of the 38 revealed entries touch [Rush]: it is printed on EX Naruto Uzumaki (N-003) and EX Sasuke Uchiha (N-014), while Minato Namikaze (N-007) and Ino Yamanaka (N-011) gain it conditionally. Note that this is read from reminder text on a sample card; no rulebook wording has been published.

One card says so outright. The Support "Shadow Possession Jutsu" on Shikamaru Nara (N-008) reads: [During Your Opponent’s Attack] Summon this card and interrupt that attack. Five other Supports can also be played [During Your Opponent’s Attack] — Jiraiya (N-006), Orochimaru, Hinata Hyuga, Sakura Haruno, and Karin (N-010) — but they K.O., bounce, or gain Life; none of them state that the attack itself stops. What happens to an attack when the attacking Character is K.O.’d has never been explained officially.

Nothing has been announced about Chakra increasing. The official site describes deck construction as 1 Leader + a 50-card deck + 5 Chakra cards + 1 Summon card, and the revealed C-001 Chakra Card reads "When using Chakra, flip this card face-down." Both Leader cards (N-001, N-012) carry [Recovery]: "If it is the second turn or later, rest this card and flip all of your CHAKRA face-up" — a way to return spent Chakra. On current evidence, Chakra is not a growing resource but a fixed set of five cycled between face-down and face-up. Whether it stays at five for the whole game has not been stated officially.

The number has not been announced. The official playmat handed out at Gen Con 2026 confirms a four-phase turn — Refresh, Draw, Main, End — so a Draw Phase certainly exists. How many cards you draw in it, whether the player going first draws on turn one, and how large the opening hand is have all gone unstated. Separately, of the 38 revealed entries only one uses the word "draw": the Leader effect on Sasuke Uchiha (N-012), and it continues "then place 1 card from your hand on top of your deck," so hand size does not change. Within the revealed pool, no way of adding cards to your hand outside the Draw Phase has been confirmed — most likely because draw cards simply have not been shown yet.

Four are readable on the cards themselves: L, SR, R, and C. The mark sits to the right of the card number. Across the 18 cards where it is legible, the split is 2 L (the Leaders, Naruto Uzumaki N-001 and Sasuke Uchiha N-012), 5 SR, 6 R, and 5 C. This is read from the English demo cards handed out at Gen Con 2026 and from sample images on the official site; no official rarity list has been published, and whether higher rarities such as parallel or secret variants exist is unknown.

Yes, officially previewed. The official "ABOUT NARUTO CARD GAME" page states that the game will include "a variety of cards using newly drawn illustrations from the anime and from various creators, as well as artwork from the original manga," and the ARTWORK gallery on that page shows 12 illustration cards. Two of them (Tsunade and Boruto Uzumaki) have been shown as physical sample cards in videos posted by the official English X account on August 4 and August 12, 2026, confirming they exist in printed form. However, the card numbers, costs, rarities and effect text of those 12 cards — and which product they appear in and how to obtain them — are all unannounced.

Yes. So far the confirmed promo is card number CP-001, "Chakra Card," which is produced in event-specific versions. As of September 6, 2026, official primary sources confirm fourteen give-away occasions. Seven appear on the English official site: the Gen Con 2026 attendee gift "-Gen Con 2026 Ver.-" (July 30 – August 2, 2026, Indianapolis, USA), the "-New York Yankees™ Ver.-" to be handed out at "NARUTO x YANKEES GAME NIGHT" at Yankee Stadium on September 8, 2026, the attendee gifts for New York Comic Con 2026 and PAX Aus 2026 (listed without a version name), and the attendee gifts for SPIEL Essen (Oct 22–25, Germany), Paris Games Week (Oct 22–25, France) and Lucca Comics & Games (Oct 28 – Nov 1, Italy) — also without a version name. Seven more appear on the BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 official site as the gift for those drawn for the "Teaching Session" demo — Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Taipei (all without a version name). Only two occasions carry a version name; whether the other twelve share the same artwork is unannounced. There are zero occasions in Japan (the BCG Fest Tokyo stop reads only "Early 2027"). The card image and effect text are unpublished for all fourteen. Only one occasion states a quantity: the New York Yankees promotional schedule lists "1st 40,000 Guests" (presented by Bandai) for Yankee Stadium (confirmed September 6, 2026). Note that CP-001 carries a different card number from the sample Chakra Card "C-001."

Some of them, yes. The sample card images on the Japanese official "About NARUTO CARD GAME" page are in Japanese, and cards such as Naruto Uzumaki (N-001, Leader) and Ino Yamanaka (N-011) are legible down to their effect text (all carry a SAMPLE watermark and a NOT FOR SALE marking). The physical demo cards distributed and displayed at Gen Con 2026, however, are English-language only, and the official Japanese text for the cards first revealed there has not been published. In our card database, Japanese text for cards confirmed only in English is labelled explicitly as a reference translation modelled on previously revealed cards.

The world's first demo event was held at Gen Con 2026 (July 30 – August 2, 2026, Indianapolis, US), where both tutorial sessions sold out. The next opportunities come in October 2026: details for tutorial sessions at New York Comic Con 2026 (Oct 8–11, Javits Center booth #2705) and PAX Aus 2026 (Oct 9–11, MCEC Melbourne) were published on August 7, 2026. Both are free, one session per person for the whole convention. The way in differs by venue after the official pages were rewritten on September 19, 2026: NYCC hands out tutorial session tickets first come, first served each morning at the Bandai Namco Naruto Booth #3001 (sessions run at BANDAI CARD GAMES Booth #2705), while PAX Aus takes advance registration on BANDAI TCG+, opening Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 11:00 AEST (10:00 JST) on a first-come basis, one event per person (22 slots over three days, 45 minutes each, capacity unannounced). To receive the participant gifts — a "CP-001 Chakra Card" and a logo sticker — you must be registered to the "NARUTO TCG UPDATES CHANNEL" on BANDAI TCG+ and complete a post-session survey. For BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 (11 cities worldwide), nine cities have confirmed dates and venues as of September 6, 2026: Jakarta (Oct 10–11), Manila (Oct 24–25), Bangkok (Nov 21–22), Hong Kong (Nov 28–29), Singapore (Dec 5–6), Kuala Lumpur (Dec 12–13, IOI City Mall), Taipei (Dec 19–20, World Trade Center), Orlando (Jan 7–10, 2027) and London (Jan 15–17, 2027, ExCeL London Hall 1-11). All nine list NARUTO CARD GAME among their participating titles. Seven of them — all but Orlando and London — have published details showing the NARUTO "Teaching Session" is allocated by lottery, with application windows, winner announcement dates and a participant gift (CP-001 Chakra Card); applying requires face photo registration in the BANDAI TCG+ app, which can take a week or more to verify. As of September 6, 2026: Jakarta (closed August 24, winners from September 10) and Manila (closed September 3, winners from September 17) are shut; Hong Kong is open until September 27 (winners from October 15); Bangkok and Singapore open September 11 (winners from October 22 and November 5); Kuala Lumpur opens September 18 (winners from November 12); Taipei opens September 25 (winners from November 19). As of September 6 the NARUTO pages for Orlando and London still show two slots, "Main Event" and "Tutorial Session", plus "Details will be updated in the future," and London's event-wide pre-registration opens October 25, 2026 at 9:00am GMT. Details for the three European events were published on the English official site on September 4, 2026: SPIEL Essen (Oct 22–25, Messe Essen, Germany), Paris Games Week (Oct 22–25, Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, France) and Lucca Comics & Games (Oct 28 – Nov 1, Piazza Santa Maria, Italy). All three offer free tutorial sessions, one session per person for the whole convention, with a "CP-001 Chakra Card" as the participant gift (TCG+ channel registration and a post-session survey required). The participation method, originally "planned on-site on the day," was rewritten to "to be announced at a later date" as of September 19, 2026. Booth numbers and session timetables are unannounced for all three, and only NYCC and PAX Aus list a logo sticker among the participant gifts.[Added October 11, 2026] BANDAI's official press release of October 10, 2026 announced that **"Starting in February 2027, NARUTO CARD GAME Premier Demo Events will be held at participating TCG stores."** A campaign distributing a total of 1 million Demo Decks worldwide also begins in spring 2027. This is the first step in moving play from convention tutorial sessions into stores. The participating stores, format, eligibility and whether it runs in Japan are all unannounced.

No standalone demo event in Japan has been announced, but the first official event in Japan at which the NARUTO Card Game will appear now has details: the Fest official site published the outline and How to Participate page for "BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 in TOKYO" on September 15, 2026. It runs February 20–21, 2027 (TOC Exhibition Hall, Shinagawa, Tokyo) and March 6–7 (Ikebukuro Sunshine City Exhibition Hall C, Toshima, Tokyo), and the NARUTO Card Game is listed at both sessions — the only title at both. Admission is free but entry is application-only, with no same-day admission without a prior application. Applying requires face photo registration in the BANDAI TCG+ app (screening may take a week or more); the Main Event window is November 20–29, 2026, with winners announced around December 14. Side Events take applications in an advance round and a second round — NARUTO is eligible for the March second round (from February 10, 2027) — but the advance window is stated two ways on the official site ("November 20–29" and "December 25 – January 3") with no official explanation of which is correct. A priority lottery also raises the odds for applicants who link their My Number Card to BANDAI TCG+ (via the MOALA account) by the deadline. However, whether the Tokyo stop will include a NARUTO demo (Teaching Session) or tournament, and whether there will be participant gifts or a visitor giveaway, is unannounced as of September 15, 2026 (the outline page's "VIEW ACTIVITIES" button is still disabled for every title). The NARUTO Card Game official site (Japanese and English) has not yet posted the Tokyo announcement. The Fest's other cities — Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei, Orlando and London — are all outside Japan, and the other demo events after Gen Con 2026 are planned at New York Comic Con, PAX Aus, SPIEL Essen, Paris Games Week and Lucca Comics & Games, also all outside Japan. We will report on our event calendar and news pages as soon as NARUTO's programme for Tokyo is announced.

You need a BANDAI TCG+ account whose profile shows "Face Photo Verified" ("臉部照片已驗證" on the traditional Chinese pages). Registering the photo is a seven-step process that runs through a MOALA account, separate from BANDAI TCG+, and the official help page lists 13 kinds of photo it will not accept (glare on glasses, tinted glasses, face covered by a mask or hair, hats, headphones, smiling, exaggerated expressions, head cut off, not facing forward, and more). The page gives two different screening estimates — "several days" at the top and "may take over a week" at step 6 — and screening is suspended during summer and year-end holidays. It also states plainly that there is no remedy if the time taken for registration means you miss the window, so assume the longer figure and start at least seven days before the application deadline. That works out to Hong Kong by September 20 and Bangkok by September 27 (both deadlines have themselves passed), Singapore by October 5, Kuala Lumpur by October 18 and Taipei by October 27. A registered photo is valid for three years, so one registration covers applications to all seven cities. The help page also names the nine regions the face recognition feature covers — Japan, Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand and Taiwan — and every country or region hosting a lottery falls inside that list (what "target region" is measured against — account country, residence, or event location — is not explained). Minors cannot register a face photo but remain eligible to take part, and are told to apply from their own account. As of October 5, 2026 three cities are actually open for applications: Singapore (deadline October 12), Kuala Lumpur (October 25) and Taipei (November 3). Four have closed — Jakarta (August 24), Manila (September 3), Hong Kong (September 27) and Bangkok (October 4). Singapore has the nearest deadline, and allowing for approval taking a week or more puts the date to start registering at October 5. Note that none of the four closed pages says so: each still shows its "Registration is scheduled to open on ..." note and a live application link, so judge whether you can still apply from the dates of the application window printed on the page (all seven were re-checked on October 5, 2026). The Singapore page alone carries a "Capacity 192" field — still the only capacity published across the seven cities (the page does not state whether 192 covers the whole event, one day or one session).

Not at BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 (the seven Asian cities). All seven "Pre-Registration" pages state: "*Please note that this event is open only to participants who have been selected through the lottery. Same-day registration or entry will not be available." (traditional Chinese: 「*本活動僅限中籤者參加。無法於活動當天直接入場，敬請見諒。」), checked September 13, 2026. The notes at the top add "Same-day visitors will not be able to participate in the event," so going to the venue will not help if you did not apply or were not selected. Reception may ask for ID on the day, and a mismatch with your BANDAI TCG+ account forfeits both participation and the right to buy prizes and goods; rights are non-transferable and proxies are prohibited. Applications are also split into two routes — per-title events and an admission ticket — and while one note says admission tickets allow access only to merchandise sales and teaching sessions, the Teaching Session itself is described as open only to lottery winners, and nothing official reconciles the two. The five other venues — New York Comic Con 2026, PAX Aus 2026, SPIEL Essen, Paris Games Week and Lucca Comics & Games — all used to state "Registration for the Tutorial Sessions is planned to take place on-site on the day of the event," but the official pages were rewritten on September 19, 2026 and now differ by venue (checked October 9, 2026). NYCC has no lottery or advance application, but you cannot simply turn up either: you need a tutorial session ticket, handed out first come, first served each morning when the venue opens at the Bandai Namco NARUTO Booth #3001 (the sessions themselves run at BANDAI CARD GAMES Booth #2705, a different location). PAX Aus requires advance registration on BANDAI TCG+, which opened first come, first served at 11:00 AM AEST on Sunday, September 20, 2026 with a limit of one event per person — so you cannot join on the day without having registered. For the three European venues (SPIEL Essen, Paris Games Week, Lucca), the pages say "Information on how to participate in the Tutorial Sessions will be announced at a later date," so whether it will be same-day registration is itself unannounced.

The product lineup was revealed in BANDAI's official press release of October 10, 2026; **pricing is still unannounced**. At the June 2027 launch there will be three Starter Decks (led by Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha and Gaara, pre-constructed with all the cards needed to start playing) and the first Booster Pack, "Enter: Naruto Uzumaki!". For both, however, **the price, cards per pack, cards per deck, box configuration and product names are unannounced**, as is Japanese domestic retail. As a related product, the "NARUTO CARD GAME Official Playmat -Arriving in 2027-" (MSRP $35 excl. tax) has been announced, and as of September 19, 2026 it is the only NARUTO Card Game item with a published price. At Gen Con 2026 it could only be bought with a purchase voucher handed to tutorial session participants (valid on the day attended). It is listed at five venues between October and November — New York Comic Con 2026, PAX Aus 2026, SPIEL Essen, Paris Games Week and Lucca Comics & Games — at "MSRP: $35 (+tax)," one per person, limited quantities each day, but the purchase method differs by venue (the official pages were rewritten on September 19, 2026): NYCC uses a retail ticket handed out first come, first served each morning at Booth #2705; PAX Aus runs a daily raffle among tutorial participants, with winners buying that day (no tutorial, no playmat); and the three European venues say the purchase method is "to be announced." Even the German, French, Italian and Australian pages quote the price in US dollars, with no local-currency figure. General retail, online sales and any sale in Japan are all unannounced.

As of October 11, 2026 there is nothing to pre-order. The product line-up was revealed in BANDAI's official press release of October 10, 2026 (three Starter Decks plus the first Booster Pack, "Enter: Naruto Uzumaki!", at the June 2027 launch), but **the price, release date, product names, participating retailers and pre-order opening date are all unannounced**, and no product has opened for reservation. The release window is published as "a worldwide simultaneous launch in June 2027." Three official items are easy to mistake for pre-orders. (1) The "NARUTO CARD GAME Official Playmat -Arriving in 2027-" (MSRP $35 +tax) appears under "Merchandise" on the English official site's pages for five venues — New York Comic Con 2026, PAX Aus 2026, SPIEL Essen, Paris Games Week and Lucca Comics & Games — sold at the venue, one per person, limited quantities each day (via a morning retail ticket at NYCC, a raffle among tutorial participants at PAX Aus, and a method "to be announced" at the three European venues). It is not a mail-order reservation. (2) The "Teaching Session" lotteries at each BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 stop are lotteries for a demo seat, not for a product (those drawn receive a CP-001 Chakra Card as the participant gift). (3) PAX Aus 2026 tutorial sessions take advance registration on BANDAI TCG+ (first come, first served from September 20, 2026 at 11:00 AEST), but that too is a demo seat, not a product. We update our pre-order and lottery hub the same day any shop's sign-up is officially confirmed.

The next major reveal is "Jump Festa 2027" in December 2026. The launch month and product lineup were revealed at the "NARUTO: What's Next?" stage at New York Comic Con 2026 on October 10, 2026 (local time), and BANDAI's press release of the same date states "The next major NARUTO CARD GAME update is scheduled for Jump Festa 2027 this December." **However, which day or time anything will be announced at Jump Festa 2027, and whether the NARUTO Card Game will exhibit there, are unannounced.** What NYCC 2026 did reveal: the simultaneous worldwide launch in June 2027; three Starter Decks (led by Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha and Gaara); the first Booster Pack, "Enter: Naruto Uzumaki!"; Premier Demo Events starting at participating TCG stores in February 2027; a spring 2027 campaign distributing 1 million Demo Decks; and two exclusives (Official Playmat - NARUTO VS. SASUKE - and Premium Card Collection Vol.00 - CHAKRA Set). The release also says new card illustrations debuted at the panel, but as of October 11, 2026 they have not been published on the official site. New facts may also appear on the official site or official social accounts before then.

It is published on the official website (naruto-cardgame.com), but a full check of all four language versions on September 14, 2026 found that which news appears depends entirely on the language version. The news lists hold 4 items (Japanese), 13 (English), 9 (English(Asia)) and 6 (Traditional Chinese), and no version carries all 20 distinct items. The Japanese list has not moved since July 29, 2026: every official news item from August onward — Yankee Stadium, NYCC, PAX Aus, the three European events, BCG Fest Orlando and London — appears only on the English version. The BCG Fest city announcements for Asia are split further still: Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur are on English(Asia) only, while Hong Kong and Taipei are on Traditional Chinese only. For the entry requirements and registration status of the demo events themselves, the per-city pages on the BCG Fest site (bandaicardgames-fest.com) are more detailed and update faster than the official site's news. We check all four versions plus the Fest site and summarize them here.

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