What is the NARUTO CARD GAME?

It is the official trading card game based on Masashi Kishimoto's NARUTO, published by BANDAI. It was announced in June 2026 and will be released worldwide in summer 2027, with all regions launching at the same time.

You build a deck around a Leader card, whose colour decides which cards you can include. A standard deck is 51 cards plus 5 Chakra cards and 1 Summon card. Characters form your front line and attack, Chakra pays for jutsu, Summon cards bring Characters into play, and EX Characters arrive once you meet certain conditions. You win by reducing your rival Leader's Life to zero.

Can I buy the cards yet?

Not through normal retail. Nothing goes on sale until summer 2027. The only cards in circulation today are promos handed out at conventions, which is why they only appear on the second-hand market.

Where do the prices on this site come from?

From public marketplace listings collected automatically once a day. We calculate the lowest price, the average and the number of active listings, and discard auctions, mismatched products, replicas, proxies, customs and bundles. These are estimates based on asking prices, not official values or confirmed sales.

Is this an official BANDAI website?

No. NARUTOMARKET is an independent fan project created to support and document NARUTO CARD GAME, with no affiliation to BANDAI, Shueisha or Pierrot. For official information, always check naruto-cardgame.com.

What is the Gen Con 2026 Chakra Card (CP-001)?

It is the first NARUTO CARD GAME card ever printed: a promotional Chakra card handed out for free at Gen Con 2026, numbered CP-001 and marked "Not for Resale". As an event-exclusive giveaway it is currently the only card from the game with a real secondary market, and you can follow its price day by day in our Market section.

When will the next news arrive?

BANDAI will show the game at New York Comic Con (October 8-11, 2026), with tutorial sessions planned at PAX Australia, Spiel Essen, Paris Games Week and Lucca Comics & Games through October and November. A bigger information reveal is scheduled for December 2026, and in-store tutorial sessions start in January 2027 ahead of the summer 2027 launch.

HOW TO PLAY

NARUTO CARD GAME RULES

BANDAI revealed the first rules on 29 July 2026, a day before the game made its debut at Gen Con. This page gathers everything that is confirmed and, just as importantly, everything that is not.

Confirmed rules exactly as BANDAI published them. We update this page every time new information comes out.

01

WHAT YOU PLAY WITH

Each player brings a Leader and a deck built around it. These are the confirmed numbers.

A full NARUTO CARD GAME deck: 1 Leader card, a 51-card main deck, 5 Chakra cards and 1 Summon card

1 Leader Sets your colour and your Life

51 Main deck Characters, EX Characters and support

5 Chakra The resource you spend

1 Summon Puts Characters on the field

Your Leader's colour decides which cards you are allowed to include. How many colours exist, and how many copies of the same card a deck may hold, has not been announced.

02

THE FIVE CARD TYPES

Every card in the game is one of these five. The examples come from BANDAI's own sample cards.

Leader

The card your whole deck is built around. Its colour decides which cards you can play, and when its Life hits zero, you lose.

Character

Your front line. Characters attack, and some unleash jutsu by paying a Chakra cost.

EX Character

Heavy hitters. They only come into play once you meet certain conditions during the match, and they can swing a game on their own.

Chakra

Your resource. You spend Chakra to activate ninjutsu, genjutsu and taijutsu.

Summon

The card that brings your Characters onto the battlefield.

03

HOW A GAME WORKS

The four moves BANDAI has shown so far, in order.

1
Rest your Summon card

Turn your Summon card sideways to bring one of your Characters onto the field.
2
Send your Characters in

Characters are your front line: they attack, and some unleash a jutsu by paying its Chakra cost.
3
Flip Chakra to react

Turn a Chakra card face down to activate a support card. A well-timed Ninjutsu stops an attack dead.
4
Empty their Life

Both revealed Leaders start on 15 Life. The first player to leave the rival Leader at zero wins.

04

WHAT THE NUMBERS MEAN

BANDAI's sample cards print five figures. The labels are confirmed; the exact combat maths behind them is not.

Naruto Uzumaki Leader card showing where DMG, POW and LIFE are printed

DMG: Damage. Printed top left on Leaders and Characters alike.
POW: Power. The figure the card fights with.
HP: Hit points. Characters and EX Characters carry it; Leaders do not.
LIFE: Only on Leader cards, bottom right. Both revealed Leaders start on 15.
CHAKRA: The cost printed beside a jutsu: what you pay to activate it.

Sample cards published by BANDAI
Card	Card type	DMG	POW	HP / LIFE
Naruto Uzumaki N-001	Leader	1	3	LIFE 15
Sasuke Uchiha N-002	Leader	1	3	LIFE 15
Shikamaru Nara N-009	Character	1	6	HP 4
Ino Yamanaka N-011	Character	2	5	HP 8
Gamabunta N-005	EX Character	2	10	HP 8

Values read from the sample cards on the official site. They are marked SAMPLE and may still change before release.

STILL UNANNOUNCED

WHAT WE STILL DON'T KNOW

No full rulebook has been published. The Gen Con games were guided demos with pre-built decks. This is what is still missing.

The turn structure and its phases
How damage is worked out between POW and HP
How many colours the game has
How many copies of a card a deck may hold
Starting hand, drawing and mulligans
Set names, products and prices

BANDAI has a larger information reveal scheduled for December 2026, and in-store tutorial sessions from January 2027, ahead of the worldwide release in summer 2027. We update this page as soon as anything is confirmed.

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