Quick answer
CardSpicy indexes KAYOU’s Naruto cards by set and rarity. The line runs a longer ladder than most card games — R, SR, SSR, TR, HR, ZR, TGR, UR, OR, AR, SLR, SP, CP, GP, MR, CR, NR, BP, PTR, PU, XR, QR and SE, lowest to highest — and several of those codes are exclusive to one box tier, so a set’s full range is not the same as what your box can produce.
Rarity codes are the first thing a Naruto collector runs into and the last thing anyone explains. This page is the ladder in full, in order, with the box tiers and the caveats attached to each rung.
The four bands
The bands below are ours, not the manufacturer’s. KAYOU does not group its own tiers; we group them by how hard they are to pull, because that is the question a buyer is actually asking.
- Base — in most packs. R, SR, SSR.
- Hit — a real pull, but you will see them. TR, HR, ZR, TGR, UR.
- Chase — the tiers people open boxes for. OR, AR, SLR, SP, CP, GP.
- High and top — low pull rates, and in some waves a fixed print number. MR, CR, NR, BP, and up to SE.
Every tier, in order
| Tier | Name | Band | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| R | Rare | Base | In every pack, every time. This is the bulk of any opening and where most character collections actually start. |
| SR | Super Rare | Base | Shows up consistently across boxes. If you are building around one character, SR is the tier with the most options. |
| SSR | Super Super Rare | Base | The first tier that feels different in hand. Not in every pack, but a full box shows a solid spread. |
| TR | Transparent Rare | Hit | See-through cardstock with chibi character art, printed in the higher box tiers. |
| HR | Holographic Rare | Hit | Hologram stock, tier-four exclusive. |
| ZR | Z Rare | Hit | Rainbow-stock cards, locked to tier-two boxes from the fourth wave on. |
| TGR | Transparent Gold Rare | Hit | The gold version of the transparent tier, tier three. |
| UR | Ultra Rare | Hit | The community benchmark for a hit. “UR or above” is shorthand for a chase pull. |
| OR | Over Rare | Chase | Sits above UR, with heavier treatments and a lower pull rate. |
| AR | Art Rare | Chase | Full-art battle scenes on foiled stock. Joined the English line with Jin Chapter Series 2. |
| SLR | Star Light Rare | Chase | Ultra-rare rainbow stock out of the tier-four and EX packs. |
| SP | Special | Chase | High-rarity cards with special specifications. Popular characters carry most of the value here. |
| CP | Cloud Print | Chase | Gold cards exclusive to the Itachi Cloud Box, the tier-2.5 product. |
| GP | Gold Print | Chase | Tier-one exclusive gold cards. |
| MR | Miracle Rare | High | Extremely rare, and one of the tiers collectors track hardest. |
| CR | Crystal Rare | High | A tier-two exclusive high chase. |
| NR | Noble Rare | High | Rainbow-specification rare cards, tier-three exclusive. |
| BP | Battle Print | High | Artist-rare battle art. Tier four, from wave two onward. |
| PTR | Poster Rare | Special | Poster art from across the anime’s run. Debuted with Ninja Age and the tier-four-wave-six line. |
| PU | Parallel Ultra | Special | A parallel treatment introduced from tier four, wave six onward. |
| XR | Scroll Rare | Special | Scroll-style art, including numbered copies, from the Ninja Age box. |
| QR | Chibi Rare | Special | Chibi art, serial-numbered out of 720 or 72, with QR-code redemption in China. |
| SE | Special Edition | Top | Panorama designs and the highest rarity in the line. Early waves numbered 777 copies; later ones 199, 699 or 999 per character. |
Some tiers are locked to a box
This is the part that catches people out. A tier existing in a set does not mean the box you bought can produce it. Several codes are exclusive to one product tier: GP to tier one, CP to the tier-2.5 Itachi Cloud Box, CR to tier two, NR and TGR to tier three, and HR and BP to tier four.
So a checklist that lists a set’s full rarity range is describing the set, not your box. If a particular tier is the reason you are buying, check which box tier carries it before you buy.
Two things the ladder does not tell you
First, pull rates are not published. KAYOU does not print odds, so any number you read about how often a tier appears is a community estimate rather than a guarantee.
Second, rarity is not the same as demand. The tiers above UR are where the scarcity sits, but within a tier the character decides the price. A tier-three exclusive card for a minor character can sit behind a nine-tails Naruto card from a lower tier.
Numbered versus unnumbered
The top of the ladder splits in two. Some cards are unnumbered — rare, but however many the print run produced. Others are numbered: the card itself states how many copies exist, for example out of 999, 777, 220 or 99.
The numbered cards are the ones collectors track individually, because the number is the whole point. Naruto’s numbered tiers in Jin Chapter Series 3 run ASP at 99 copies, SE at 220, AR at 777 and BP at 999.
Frequently asked questions
What do the KAYOU Naruto rarity codes mean?
They are tier codes printed on the card. The order runs R, SR, SSR, TR, HR, ZR, TGR, UR, OR, AR, SLR, SP, CP, GP, MR, CR, NR, BP, PTR, PU, XR, QR and SE, from the tiers you open constantly up to the top of the line. UR and above is the usual shorthand for a hit.
Is a UR card worth keeping?
UR is the benchmark tier in the community: the point where a card stops being part of the expected opening and starts being a pull. Whether it is worth keeping depends on the character, not the code.
How many cards are in a KAYOU Naruto box?
It depends on the product. The English Jin Chapter boxes are ten packs of five cards; Earth Scroll Series 1 is thirty packs of five and Series 2 is thirty packs of four; Heaven Scroll Series 1 is a twenty-four pack box of eight-card packs. The Chinese Ninja Age special pack is ten packs of five.
Do KAYOU publish pull rates for Naruto cards?
No. KAYOU does not publish pull rates, so figures you see circulating are community estimates. Treat them as context rather than as a promise about any individual box.
What is a numbered Naruto card?
A card whose print run is fixed and printed on the card itself, for example out of 999, 777, 220 or 99 copies. Numbered cards sit at the very top of the ladder and are tracked individually because the print number is what makes them scarce.
The card-by-card detail is on the Naruto card list — every card we index, with the printed data and a note on each.
Sources
List of sources used
- KAYOU — Naruto collectible card product listings and box information, for rarity codes and pack configuration.
- Product packaging — rarity symbols, pull ratios and box-tier labelling as printed on the sealed product.
- Community compiled set listings for the English Jin Chapter, Earth Scroll and Heaven Scroll editions.
For the sets behind these tiers, see our Naruto card index. For sleeves and holders that fit Naruto cards at their standard 63 × 88 mm, the card protection range covers them.
Where to go next
- The CardSpicy card index — every card we track, with its PSA 10 population and market history (195 cards).
- The illustrator index — every artist behind those cards, card by card (110 artists).
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