Naruto Card Game Release Date: June 2027, 3 Starter Decks

Bandai has finally put a month on it. NARUTO CARD GAME launches simultaneously worldwide in June 2027, with three Starter Decks led by Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha and Gaara, and a first Booster Pack called "Enter: Naruto Uzumaki!". Bandai announced it at New York Comic Con on Saturday 10 October, the day its NYCC event page had listed the "NARUTO: What's Next?" panel, in a press release timed for 7:00 p.m. ET and a 114-second Special Animated Trailer by Studio Pierrot whose YouTube description reads "scheduled for release June, 2027".

The month is the headline, but it is not the most useful part. The same release puts in-store Premier Demo Events from February 2027, a campaign to hand out 1 million Demo Decks from spring 2027, and two new products, a NARUTO VS. SASUKE playmat and a Premium Card Collection Vol.00 CHAKRA Set, that Bandai will sell only at those demo events and selected BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest stops. Until now, the merchandise on Bandai's NARUTO CARD GAME convention pages was a single item: the Official Playmat -Arriving in 2027-, at $35 plus tax.

Everything below comes from Bandai's press release, the matching article on the official NARUTO site and the trailer's YouTube page, checked against Bandai's own NARUTO CARD GAME site on 11 October. That site has not caught up yet: its homepage still says "Arriving in Summer 2027", and the roadmap on its ABOUT page still ends on a Summer release.

What Bandai announced, in one table

There is no price for anything in that table, no card count, and no product code beyond the three ST numbers. The gaps are listed at the end.

Three Starter Decks, and the third Leader is Gaara

Bandai's release says the three decks are pre-constructed, come with "all the cards needed to start playing", and are each "built around a different Leader" with its own lineup and play style. The product image on the official NARUTO site labels them ST01 for Naruto, ST02 for Sasuke and ST03 for Gaara.

Gaara is the new piece. The two Leader cards on Bandai's ABOUT page are a Naruto Uzumaki and a Sasuke Uchiha, both printed with LIFE 15, and we transcribed their text in our NARUTO CARD GAME rules-text breakdown. Bandai has not published a Gaara Leader card, so its text, Life total and colour are unknown. The ST02 art is not the Sasuke on that Leader card either: the starter shows him in an open white robe among snakes, where the Leader card shows him in a pale shirt with lightning around him. Product art is not card text, so do not read a deck's strategy off it.

What "all the cards needed" means in numbers, Bandai did not say. The published deck format is a Leader card, a 51-card deck, 5 Chakra cards and 1 Summon card. Whether a Starter Deck ships at that full size, and whether it includes its own Chakra and Summon cards, is not in the release.

The first booster shares a name with episode 1

"Enter: Naruto Uzumaki!" is the English title of the NARUTO anime's first episode. Bandai's release says the pack features characters from the original NARUTO series and NARUTO SHIPPUDEN, and that new card illustrations were shown for the first time during the NYCC presentation. The game's own description still covers BORUTO: NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS too, but the release does not mention Boruto characters for this first pack.

The official NARUTO site's article places four illustrations under its booster heading: a young Naruto with a shadow clone, a young Sasuke in dark purple chakra, Deidara, and Shikamaru in his flak jacket. That is two Part I looks and two Shippuden ones, which fits the release's description. The article does not say which cards they belong to.

Two naming traps before you go searching:

• The official NARUTO site calls it something else. Its English article, which carries a note that some text is machine-translated, names the pack "Here Comes Naruto Uzumaki!". Bandai's own English press release says "Enter: Naruto Uzumaki!", and that is the name to search for.
• Kayou already sells cards with that title. Kayou's Heaven Scroll Series 1 collectible set has a five-card scene in its R tier titled "Enter: Naruto Uzumaki!", numbered 1/5 to 5/5, per Kayou's US product page. A single card sold under that name, numbered out of 5, is Kayou's collectible, not Bandai's booster. Our Kayou explainer covers that set.

Before June: store demos and a million demo decks

Two things happen before launch.

Premier Demo Events, from February 2027. They run at participating TCG stores, and Bandai pitches them at players including "longtime NARUTO fans who have never played a trading card game". The rollout starts at "select large-scale stores participating in BANDAI TCG+ (Wave 1)", with more stores added in Wave 2. Participating stores, dates and registration are still to be announced. The official NARUTO site's article calls the same thing "NARUTO CARD GAME Advance Trial Events", starting in "early 2027".

1 million Demo Decks, from spring 2027. Bandai describes a global campaign to distribute a total of 1 million Demo Decks so players can learn "the basic flow of the game" at their own pace. The convention tutorials so far have used demo decks that stay on the table, per Bandai's event pages. A campaign that distributes decks for play at your own pace reads like the first chance to take a playable deck home, but Bandai has not published how, where or to whom they are handed out.

For stores, Wave 1 adds a concrete retail detail: the in-store rollout starts with large BANDAI TCG+ stores. Bandai's FOR RETAILERS page still said on 11 October that information on becoming a BANDAI TCG+ store and carrying the game "will be available soon", and our distributor breakdown lists the 16 distributors it names. Bandai's ONE PIECE CARD GAME store page says that, because the products are made in Japan, the order period is set about six months before release. If Naruto follows that, a June 2027 launch puts orders around December 2026. That is arithmetic on another game's page, and Naruto's page carries no such note.

None of this replaces the convention route. Tutorial bookings for SPIEL Essen and Paris Games Week still open on Wednesday 14 October at 6:00 p.m. local time on Weeztix (Bandai's pages print CET, but Germany and France stay on summer time until 25 October, and Bandai's own entry on the Paris Games Week exhibitor list says CEST), and Lucca's at 11:00 a.m. CEST on BANDAI TCG+. Bandai's event pages still gave those times on 11 October. Our Paris Games Week and Lucca guide has the details.

Two products sold only at demo events and fests

Bandai calls both products exclusive. Its release says they will be available only at the Premier Demo Events and at "select BANDAI CARD GAMES FEST 26-27 events", naming the Orlando and London fests. Participating stores, dates, availability and how to buy are all still to be announced.

Official Playmat - NARUTO VS. SASUKE -. This is not the Official Playmat -Arriving in 2027- that Bandai has sold at its convention booths since Gen Con. That one shows Naruto and Sasuke over an orange sweep on white, with the logo reading "Arriving in 2027". The new one is a split painting of Naruto in his black-and-orange Shippuden outfit forming a Rasengan with a shadow clone, facing Sasuke with lightning crackling around his hand. Bandai calls it an "advance-release" playmat and has not priced it.

Premium Card Collection Vol.00 - CHAKRA Set. The pictured package is labelled in Japanese, プレミアムカードコレクション vol.00 -チャクラセット-, and beside it Bandai shows six cards: one Summon Card with Naruto art and five Chakra Cards illustrated with Naruto, Kakashi, Gaara, Sasuke and Sakura. That is five Chakra cards and one Summon card, the same count a deck uses outside its 51 cards. But that is what the image shows, not a published contents list, and every card in it carries a SAMPLE watermark. If the contents match the picture, the set is alternate art for a deck's fixed resource cards, the slot that the CP-001 giveaway card fills with a single Chakra card. Bandai has not said whether these cards will be tournament-legal or how they differ from the Chakra and Summon cards in a Starter Deck.

Of the two fests Bandai names, Orlando runs 7–10 January 2027 and London 15–17 January 2027. On 11 October their NARUTO CARD GAME pages still listed only a "Tutorial Session" and said "Details will be updated in the future." Bandai's "including" leaves room for other fest stops; our BCG Fest teaching-session guide covers all nine stops that have a Naruto page.

What changed from the July roadmap

Bandai's 29 July press release set out a roadmap, and its ABOUT page still shows that version. Here is how the 10 October release moves it:

The in-store row needs care. The October release does not mention January at all, and it does not say the tutorials were moved or renamed. Treat February as the earliest in-store date in Bandai's newest announcement, not as a confirmed one-month delay.

Jump Festa is Shueisha's show, not Bandai's. Entry is free, but by advance application or invitation through the Jump NAVI app, per the Jump Festa 2027 official site.

What Bandai still has not said

• Prices. None for the Starter Decks, the booster, the playmat or the CHAKRA Set.
• Contents. Cards per Starter Deck, cards per booster pack, set size, rarities, and a set code for the booster.
• The day in June, and which regions and languages the simultaneous release covers.
• Premier Demo Events: which stores are in Wave 1, the dates and how to register.
• The Demo Deck campaign: how the decks are handed out, where, and to whom.
• The exclusives: which fest stops beyond Orlando and London sell them, and at what price.
• The rules that have been missing since July: turn structure, how much Chakra you can spend in a turn, and combat resolution. The key visual at the top of this post has a playmat in its background with a column of phase labels, partly cut off, but Bandai has not published the rules behind them. Our rules-text post tracks what Bandai has actually printed.

Bandai says its next major update comes at Jump Festa 2027 in December. Until then, June 2027 is the date, and the ways to play before it are a convention tutorial, a BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest teaching session, a store demo from February, or one of the 1 million Demo Decks Bandai plans to distribute from spring. If you want a Naruto card game on the table this year, that is still Cicaboom's separate NARUTO Mythos TCG, and our explainer on all three Naruto card products sorts out which is which.

Sources: Bandai's press release "NARUTO CARD GAME Sets June 2027 Worldwide Launch at New York Comic Con" (PR Newswire, 10 October 2026, 7:00 p.m. ET); the NARUTO OFFICIAL SITE article on the announcement, dated 11 October 2026 JST, and its three product images; the Special Animated Trailer's YouTube page; Bandai's 29 July 2026 press release; Bandai's NARUTO CARD GAME homepage, ABOUT page, FOR RETAILERS page and NYCC, SPIEL Essen, Paris Games Week and Lucca event pages; Bandai's ONE PIECE CARD GAME store page; Bandai's entry on the Paris Games Week exhibitor list; the BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest Orlando and London NARUTO CARD GAME pages; the Jump Festa 2027 official site; Narutopedia; and Kayou's US Heaven Scroll Series 1 page. All were checked on 11 October 2026.