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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

A full read of the Character card Naruto Uzumaki (N-004). The effect line under [Support] Rasengan is identical to Chidori Sasuke Uchiha, and their POW/HP mirror at 5/4 against 4/5. Cross-checking every known character on that basis, 12 of the 20 have a mirror partner, 4 are symmetrical (5/5, 8/8) and only 4 stand alone. We also correct a claim in our Jiraiya (N-006) article that only one pair shared an identical effect line.

TCGplayer's seller blog published "Now Available on TCGplayer: NARUTO CARD GAME" on September 22, 2026. Sellers can list from September 22 and customers can buy from September 28. What can actually be listed right now is limited to promotional cards handed out at Gen Con 2026 and Yankee Stadium — the product itself is still slated for Summer 2027. Here is the difference between "a marketplace opened" and "pre-orders started," using only what official primary sources confirm.

We read the EX Character Naruto Uzumaki (N-003) from top to bottom. Power 11 is unique among the 20 Characters with readable stats. And lining up the power/HP of all four known EX Characters gives two clean mirrors: 11/10 ⇄ 10/11 and 10/8 ⇄ 8/10. This card is also the only one of the four known "summon another card" effects that does not carry the words "non-EX".

Search every known effect text and the word "draw" appears on exactly one card: Sasuke Uchiha Leader (N-012). Even then the card you drew is paid back by placing one card from your hand on top of your deck, so your hand size never changes. And no known card increases hand size at all. In a world where quantity cannot grow, this Leader is the only card that moves quality every turn for free — we counted what that one line actually changes against five Chakra and three payoff cards.

Cross-check all 24 readable effect texts and one pair comes out identical: Jiraiya (N-006) and Orochimaru share their second line exactly. Both are SR, both cost 2, both DMG 1, both carry {The Legendary Sannin}. The only differences are the jutsu name and power/HP being swapped 7/4 against 4/7. Why the only known removal that selects two targets was printed as a matched pair — and why its hit condition is still floating in mid-air.

Pull every timing notation out of the known effect texts and [When Attacking] appears exactly once: Jugo (N-019). Among the three cards that reveal the top of the deck, his hit condition is the narrowest, and he is the only card that writes both a card name and a type into a single condition. Yet the one known way to stack that narrow hit is the Activate: Main on Sasuke Uchiha Leader (N-012). His power of 9 is the highest of any known non-EX Character — at rarity C.

Only three known cards mention turning Chakra face-up. Two of them are the two Leaders' [Recovery], word for word identical, and the third is Shisui Uchiha (N-016) — "you cannot turn your CHAKRA face-up." That one line shuts off the only known way to refill Chakra for a full turn cycle. Which is heavier: that, or the 2 Life paid by Kakashi Hatake (N-009), who shares the exact same sentence structure? We counted it against the size of the wallet: 5 Chakra.

Sort the Summon Requirements of the 4 known EX Characters by how many cards they cost and what conditions they attach, and only Manda (N-022) reads "Place 1 of your Characters in your trash" — one card, no condition. Yet Manda's own power is 8, making it the only EX that cannot pay the "1 Character with 10 or more power" demanded by EX Naruto (N-003) and Gamabunta (N-005). The widest entrance, the narrowest exit. Its On Summon deck-top reveal also has the broadest hit condition of the three known cards that use it.

Re-read the 24 cards with readable text and four separate "only" labels land on Minato Namikaze (N-007) alone: the only card with the [Your Turn] trigger, the only effect that conditions on its own stats, the only card with both {Wind} and {Lightning}, and the only card with {Five Kage}. Its printed power is 8, leaving it 2 short of the "10 or more" that switches Rush on. We count how many known cards can close that gap.

On September 19, 2026 the official English X account announced that registration for the PAX Aus 2026 Tutorial Sessions opens on September 20 at 11:00 AEST on BANDAI TCG+, first come, first served. The official event pages were rewritten without changing their dates: PAX Aus has gone from "on-site registration on the day" to advance sign-up on TCG+, and the official playmat from "sold at the booth to anyone" to a daily raffle among tutorial participants for the right to buy one. NYCC 2026 now uses tickets handed out each morning at the booth, and the three European pages now say the participation and purchase methods will be announced later. Here is a line-by-line comparison of what changed across all five pages.

Sort the 24 cards with readable text by how they stop the opponent and you get three phrasings: two cards negate, one cancels an attack, and one says "will not be affected." That last one is Suigetsu Hozuki (N-021). Six of the seven known removal effects come from face-down Supports, and Suigetsu's immunity is written to point at all six. It does not remove the opponent's card — it lets one ally walk straight through it, and no other known card is written that way.

The NARUTO Card Game page for the Kuala Lumpur stop of BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 was updated on September 18, 2026, and the "Teaching Session" application link — previously plain text — now points to bandai-tcg-plus.com/series/8498, as confirmed on September 19. Four cities are now open at the same time: Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. No capacity figure was added, and the zero-width space we flagged on September 13 is still breaking one of the page's links. The admission ticket is series/8499, making a sixth city where the ticket ID is exactly one above the NARUTO session's.

Nine of the 38 revealed entries use the word "choose". Eight of them target a "Character" and nothing else; only Itachi Uchiha (N-013) reads "choose 1 Leader or Character". He is also the only revealed card that says "cannot attack", and the only one whose effect lasts "during your opponent's next turn". The catch: nothing happens unless you reveal an {Uchiha Clan} card off the top of your deck, and no card anywhere spells out what happens when you miss. One card, read top to bottom.

Sort the 12 revealed [Support] cards by when they can be fired and you get six on [During Your Opponent's Attack], two on [Quick], two on [During Your Main] — and two on [Support Activated]. Those last two, Kakashi Hatake (N-009) and Shisui Uchiha (N-016), are the only cards that react to an opponent activating a Support at all. Both are written with the identical sentence "Negate that card. Then, …", and both halves after "Then" are a cost you pay yourself. Here is what Kakashi's 2 Life actually weighs against LIFE 15.