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How to play Naruto Card Game right now, before the official 2027 release: two fan simulators, a community rulebook, and where demo events happen.

We searched all 38 entries in our card database (24 of which have readable effect text) for the names printed in the stat box. "Power" returns six cards, "life" two, "damage" one — and "HP" zero. The 20 revealed Characters print HP values ranging from 3 to 11, yet no revealed card moves that number by even 1 once the Character is on the field. Here is what that asymmetry means, with confirmed facts kept strictly apart from what is still unannounced.

A full read of the EX Character Sasuke Uchiha (N-014). HP 11 is the only one of its value among the 20 known characters. It is the only known card that writes a type — {The Taka} — into its Summon Requirements, and it carries that type itself. And of the four known EX Characters, only this one and Manda (N-022) have requirements payable with known non-EX cards.

Bandai's new Naruto Card Game holds its first-ever tutorial sessions at Gen Con 2026 on 30 July, ahead of a worldwide launch in 2027. Ninja TCG fans, take note.

September was the month you applied to seven lotteries; not a single Teaching Session actually took place. In October the BCG Fest 26-27 Teaching Sessions finally run — Jakarta on October 10–11 and Manila on October 24–25 — alongside tutorial sessions at NYCC, PAX Aus, SPIEL Essen, Paris Games Week and Lucca. Here are the 15 events with dates confirmed in primary sources, in date order, plus the four things stacked on October 10 and what will not happen this month.

The "Work" page of card game developer Next Play Inc. lists NARUTO CARD GAME alongside three roles — "Game rule development / Card list creation / Operations support" — confirmed by this site on October 1, 2026. They are the exact same three lines shown for the ONE PIECE CARD GAME on the same page. With no rulebook and no product information published, this is the first time an official source has shown who is building this game's rules. We quote the listing verbatim and set it against the 24 revealed card texts to separate what it does and does not tell us.

On September 29, 2026 the NARUTO official site announced that the New York Comic Con 2026 stage "NARUTO: What's Next?" will be livestreamed worldwide on the NARUTO / BORUTO official YouTube channel. It runs 5:00–6:00 PM local time on October 10 (6:00–7:00 AM JST on October 11). Two items are on the agenda — a worldwide first look at a brand-new anime, and the latest information on the NARUTO Card Game due in 2027 — and this is the first time a Japanese-language official source has named the card game slot.

"Going first is better" gets repeated in every TCG, but few players can explain what exactly is better. This article breaks the turn-order gap into tempo and cards, sets out how to choose when you win the roll, and shows how to build a separate plan for going first and going second. It also lists what the NARUTO Card Game has confirmed so far — and what remains unannounced.

In August 2026, the Pokémon TCG began verifying buyers' identity in Japan with My Number Cards. Bandai Namco has also mentioned stronger anti-scalping measures at its shareholders meeting. Here are the confirmed facts NARUTO Card Game players should know.

We read the Character card "Sasuke Uchiha (Chidori)" from top to bottom. Six Sasuke Uchiha cards have been revealed, but this is the only one whose chakra cost is readable on the card face. Recounting the attribute-style traits that sit at the front of the trait line across the 34 cards with readable traits gives 7 kinds and 37 entries in total: Special leads with 15, followed by Lightning with 8 — and 5 of those 8 are Sasuke Uchiha. Meanwhile not a single card carries Earth, one of the five chakra natures, and all 4 Wind entries belong to Naruto Uzumaki (3) and Minato Namikaze (1) — father and son only.

The NARUTO Card Game page for the Taipei stop of BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 was updated on September 25, 2026, and the registration link — previously plain text with no href — now points to bandai-tcg-plus.com/series/8529. We confirmed this on September 26. The Pre-Registration page also published the admission ticket destination series/8530, making Taipei the seventh city where the ticket series ID is exactly one above the NARUTO session's — which completes the set for all seven Asian cities. Five cities are now open at once, but Hong Kong closes on September 27, so that line-up ends tomorrow.

A full read of the Character card Orochimaru. Recount the type lines across all 38 entries in our card database and only three say "Hidden ... Village": Hidden Leaf Village (20), Hidden Sound Village (1) and Hidden Rain Village (1) — and both non-Leaf entries are Orochimaru cards. He is also the only character whose village is replaced by a different village from one version to the next. On top of that, POW 4 is the lowest value among the 20 known Characters, yet the rarity is SR: the five SR cards run 11 / 10 / 8 / 7 / 4, leaving a gap of three to the next lowest, Jiraiya.

A full read of the Character card Hinata Hyuga. Four known cards print the words "non-EX Character", but the other three (Gamabunta, Jugo, Manda) all use it to narrow what they can summon. Hinata is the only one using it to narrow what she can remove. Since every known Character with POW 10 or more is an EX Character, Hinata is a removal card that cannot K.O. a single high-power body. We also confirm the only known pair whose cost, DMG, POW and HP all match: Suigetsu Hozuki (N-021).

A full read of the Character card Sakura Haruno. Going back through all 24 known effect texts, seven cards move an opponent's Character off the field — six say "K.O. the chosen card", and only Sakura says "Return the chosen card to the owner's hand". She is also the only one of the 12 cards with a legible chakra cost to have DMG 2; the other 11 all have DMG 1. The same inversion we recorded on August 16 for POW+HP — cost-2 cards are smaller, not bigger — turns out to hold on the damage side too.