We audited all 14 "real card" videos from the official X accounts — the Jiraiya clip on November 5 was number 14. Cross-checked against the 12 ARTWORK gallery images, three cards appear only in the videos (konan, Itachi Uchiha with Illusion, and the manga-art Naruto)

The official X accounts have been quietly showing cards that are nowhere on the official website.

The NARUTO CARD GAME official X accounts occasionally post a short vertical video of a physical card. The most recent is Jiraiya, posted at 08:00 JST on November 5, 2026, where the English account (@narutotcg_eng) wrote “Check out the colors on this Jiraiya card!”.

These posts have trickled out since July, and we have seen them as they went up. What we had never done was count how many there are in total, and which cards they show.

So today we swept every post from both official accounts, identified 14 videos in this format, pulled frames from each one and read the card faces. Then we matched them against the 12 images in the ARTWORK gallery on the official site.

The result: three cards that are nowhere in the gallery.

14real-card videos9 English, 5 Japanese

11distinct cards shownduplicates removed

3not in the 12 gallery imageskonan, Itachi, manga Naruto

2trait lines that changedOrochimaru, Itachi Uchiha

Basis for this article: everything below comes from the posts themselves on @narutotcg_eng / @narutotcg_jp and from the official NARUTO CARD GAME website (Japanese, English, English(Asia) and Traditional Chinese top pages, news lists and the ARTWORK gallery images under /welcome/), all retrieved and checked directly on November 8, 2026 (JST). For the videos we downloaded each post’s mp4 and extracted frames to read the card name and trait line. Counts, resolutions and durations are measured from the retrieved files. No second-hand reports, social-media hearsay or leaks are included. Note that this site does not publish official card images, so there are no images in this article — follow the links to the posts to see the card faces on the official X accounts. Wording read from the videos may change in the retail release.

1. All 14 videos

Here are the 14 we identified, as they are. We counted only posts that fit the format “a vertical video filming one physical card” (trailers, venue reports and gameplay explainers are excluded).

eng = @narutotcg_eng (9 videos), jp = @narutotcg_jp (5 videos). All five Japanese posts use the same wording, opening with 「◤実物カード動画公開中！◢」 (“Real card video now up!”) and carrying the note 「※画像は英語版になります。」 (“the images are of the English version”). Indeed, all five show English card faces.

Oct 9 Naruto Uzumaki (manga)8.9s

Oct 28 Itachi Uchiha7.6s

Nov 5 Jiraiya latest7.1s

Oct 4 Boruto Uzumaki7s

Oct 16 Sakura Haruno6.5s

Oct 2 konan6.5s

Oct 23 Orochimaru6.4s

Aug 18 konan6.3s

Aug 18 Sasuke Uchiha6.2s

Oct 3 Tsunade6.1s

Aug 4 Tsunade6s

Oct 8 Naruto Uzumaki5.8s

Aug 18 Naruto Uzumaki5.7s

Oct 5 Itachi Uchiha5.4s

The resolution is 1080×1920 (vertical 9:16) on all 14, without exception. Lengths run from 5.4 to 8.9 seconds, and if you set aside the single 8.9-second clip (the manga-art Naruto), the other 13 all fall between 5.4 and 7.6 seconds. The staging is shared too: the card stands at an angle on a dark surface while the light is swung across it to show the foil. This is clearly one deliberate series.

2. The official ARTWORK gallery holds only 12 images

First, the thing we are matching against.

The “About the NARUTO Card Game” page (/welcome/) on the official site has an ARTWORK gallery of SAMPLE-watermarked card images. As we counted at the July 29 information reveal, there are 12 of them.

We retrieved the HTML again today and counted the image filenames: the Japanese version holds card01.webp through card12.webp (12 images), and the English version likewise holds card01.webp through card12.webp (12 images). There is no thirteenth. All 12 are already in our card database as welcome-art-01 through welcome-art-12: Orochimaru, Boruto, three Sasuke, three Naruto, Jiraiya, Itachi Uchiha, Tsunade and Sakura.

In other words, those 12 are the only Character cards published on the official site in a state where the card name and trait line can be read (separately from that, the card-type and how-to-play diagrams include cards whose effect text is legible).

3. Finding 1: “konan” is nowhere in the gallery

Now to the point.

The 14 videos show 11 distinct cards. Of those, 8 are among the 12 gallery images (Tsunade = no. 10, Sasuke with Lightning / Uchiha Clan = no. 11, Naruto with Special / Hidden Leaf Village = no. 4, Boruto = no. 2, Sakura = no. 9, Orochimaru = no. 1, Itachi = no. 6, Jiraiya = no. 5).

The remaining 3 are not in the gallery at all.

One of them is “konan”.

• August 18, 09:00 JST — the English account posted it with the single word “Angel.”
• October 2, 18:00 JST — the Japanese account showed the same card in a “Real card video now up!” post

That is 2 of the 14 videos, across both accounts — and yet it is not among the 12 gallery images. It was missing from our card database too (we had built the database around the 12 gallery images and the Gen Con demo cards).

Here is what the card face shows.

Field	As printed
Card name	konan
Trait line	Special / Akatsuki
Card type	CHARACTER
Other	SAMPLE mark present

Today we registered it in the card database as konan. The Japanese name 小南 there is a reference rendering following the original work — no official Japanese card has been announced. Card number, rarity, cost, effect text and product are all unannounced as well.

Finding 2: “konan” is the only card name in lower case

One more thing we noticed only by lining the card faces up.

Of the 14, “konan” is the only card name printed in lower case. The rest read Tsunade, Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto Uzumaki, Boruto Uzumaki, Itachi Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, Orochimaru and Jiraiya — all in title case.

Whether this is a deliberate design choice or a sample-stage inconsistency has not been explained officially. We make no judgement and record it exactly as printed, “konan”. It may well become Konan in the retail release.

4. Finding 3: a third Itachi Uchiha had been shown

The second card missing from the gallery is the Itachi Uchiha the Japanese account posted at 18:00 JST on October 5.

Two Itachi Uchiha cards had been confirmed so far.

All three trait lines differ. The illustrations differ too: the October 5 video shows Itachi from behind, against a red sky with crows. Gallery no. 6 is front-facing against an orange radial background, so it is not the same card.

Today we registered it as Itachi Uchiha (Illusion).

Note that the {Illusion} trait itself is not new. It was already confirmed on N-013 and Shisui Uchiha N-016 and is listed in our full trait roundup. What is new is the combination of Illusion + Uchiha Clan + Akatsuki.

These three cards are the clearest example yet of the observation we wrote up on August 9 — that the attribute belongs to the card, not the character. For the same Itachi Uchiha, the leading attribute splits three ways: Fire, Special, Illusion.

5. Finding 4: the manga-art Naruto is not in the gallery either

The third card missing from the gallery is the Naruto Uzumaki the English account posted at 11:57 JST on October 9.

That post went up during New York Comic Con 2026. It opens with “"There are no shortcuts!!"” and explains that “Some cards feature iconic moments from the original NARUTO manga.” What it shows is a Naruto Uzumaki whose illustration is made of manga panels.

• Card name: Naruto Uzumaki
• Trait line: Special / Hidden Leaf Village
• Length: 8.9 seconds (the longest of the 14)

The trait line is identical to gallery no. 4, but the illustration is completely different (gallery no. 4 is a newly drawn Naruto wrapped in the Nine-Tails’ chakra).

We have not registered this card in the database, and we want to state why: the card name and the trait line exactly match an existing entry, and the official information does not let us tell whether this is a different card or an alternate-art version of the same one. Once a card number becomes legible we can decide; until then we hold off and keep the record here.

6. Finding 5: identical artwork, different trait line

A by-product of the matching exercise: two places where the gallery image and the video disagree. Both are cards with identical artwork.

Orochimaru: three traits become two

Source	Trait line
Official site gallery (Japanese image)	特／雨隠れの里 (two)
Official site gallery (English image)	Special/The Legendary Sannin/ Village Hidden in the Sound (three)
October 23 video	Special / Village Hidden in the Sound (two)

We have recorded since the information reveal that the Orochimaru card has a trait line that disagrees between the Japanese and English images: the Japanese reads “Village Hidden in the Rain”, the English “Village Hidden in the Sound”.

The October 23 video adds two things to that disagreement. One is that the village reads as the Sound. The other is that there are only two traits — The Legendary Sannin, present on the English gallery image, is absent from the card in the video.

So the card in the video matches the Japanese image on the count (two) and the English image on the village name (Sound). Which wording is final has not been explained officially, and we do not state it as fact. We have added the video’s wording to the Orochimaru page in the card database.

Itachi Uchiha: the English for 暁 got shorter

Source	Trait line
Official site gallery (English image)	Special/Akatsuki Organization
October 28 video	Special / Akatsuki

Same illustration (gallery no. 6), and only the English for 暁 has shortened, from Akatsuki Organization to Akatsuki. The English wording on N-013, confirmed from the Gen Con 2026 demo card, is also Akatsuki, so the video is the one that lines up with the other cards.

There is no correction notice here either. We recorded on November 6 that a BCG Fest price listing had been fixed without any announcement; the same thing appears to be happening with card-face wording.

7. Finding 6: “Summer 2027” and “June 2027”

Most of the videos close with the NARUTO CARD GAME logo and a one-line release date. Lining up all 14, that line splits three ways.

The simultaneous worldwide release in June 2027 was announced on the NYCC stage on October 11. Videos posted after that switch to June 2027 — except that the October 28 Itachi still read Summer 2027, seventeen days later.

The November 5 Jiraiya is back to June 2027, so the natural reading is that one piece of pre-made footage slipped into the queue — but there is no official explanation. Either way, the release timing itself is June 2027 and the official site and X accounts agree on it.

One more thing: the oldest clip, the August 4 Tsunade, carries neither the logo nor the release line. Its text is a thank-you note (“As a thank-you to all who visited us at Gen Con and to our followers on social media, we're giving you a look at this Tsunade that got a lot of interest!”), which suggests it predates the point where the series settled into shape.

8. What the 14 videos still do not tell us

Finally, the fields we could not read. These are not absent — they are unshown or unannounced.

• Card number (the number area is not in frame, or is illegible, on all 14)
• Rarity
• Chakra cost
• Effect text (the effect area is not in frame on any of the 14)
• Product (which of the three Starter Decks or the first Booster Pack they belong to is unannounced)
• Whether the stats are the final values (all 14 read DMG 3 / POW 6 / HP 6; the 12 gallery images carry the same shared values, which is why we do not record these numbers in the card database)
• A Japanese-language konan card (all 14 card faces are the English version)
• Whether the lower-case “konan” is final

The next major information reveal is Jump Festa 2027 on December 19 and 20, which the official site flags as “the next big information reveal”. Whether card numbers and effect text appear there is the next milestone.

If a new video joins this series, we will update this article and the card database.