Category: Naruto

Quick answer

CardSpicy makes the protection it sells, and Naruto cards take exactly the same protection as every other line on this site. They are printed at the standard trading card size, 63 × 88 mm, so a standard-size sleeve and a standard 3" × 4" rigid holder fit them without any special product. Sleeve first, always, then the rigid holder if the card is going to be handled or displayed.

The Naruto line rewards this more than most, because the top tiers are the ones people want to look at — and looking at a card is exactly when a card gets damaged.

Why standard size covers Naruto

A trading card is a physical format before it is a game. The standard is 63 × 88 mm, and nearly every modern collectible card is printed to it, Naruto included. That is why one sleeve specification and one holder specification cover a Pokemon card, an One Piece card, a Gundam card, a Dragon Ball card and a Naruto card without any of them needing a bespoke product.

There are exceptions in the hobby — the smaller size used by some older Japanese games, and the larger size used by some sports cards — but the Naruto line is not one of them. If a card from this line does not fit a standard-size sleeve, the sleeve is the problem, not the card.

The four things that damage a card

A good sleeve or holder addresses all four of these rather than one, and they need different answers.

• Handling. Finger oils and edge pressure from picking a card up. This is the sleeve’s job, and it is why the sleeve goes on before the card goes anywhere.
• Pressure. Weight from a stack, a book, a box lid. A sleeve does nothing about this. A rigid holder does.
• Light. Ultraviolet light fades ink and yellows surfaces over years rather than weeks. This is a storage decision more than a sleeve decision.
• Chemistry. Some plastics off-gas and attack the card surface directly. This is the failure with no visible warning until the damage is done, which is why the material specification matters more than the thickness.

The order that works

Two layers, in this order: a thin acid-free, PVC-free sleeve against the card, then the rigid holder around the sleeved card. The sleeve is the only surface that touches the card. The holder is what takes the pressure. Put the holder on first and the card can still slide against its inner surface, which is the handling the sleeve exists to prevent.

For a Naruto card going into a box and staying there, the sleeve alone is enough. For a card going onto a shelf, into a trade stack or in front of a camera, add the holder.

Box or binder

Boxes are for cards that are stored. Binders are for cards that are looked at. The Naruto line pushes toward binders, because the top tiers are the ones a collector wants to see, and a card that is looked at stands a better chance of being protected than a card that is put away.

The compromise that works for most collections: the chase tiers sleeved and held, standing in a box; the base tiers in a binder, where the volume makes a binder the only practical answer. That keeps the valuable end of the collection out of the pages that get flipped.

If you send a Naruto card for grading

Sleeve it, then rigid-hold it, then pack the holder so it cannot move inside the box. The grading company will remove your sleeve, and it will remove it whether it is acid-free or not, so the sleeve is there for the journey rather than for the grade. What protects the grade is the packaging.

Once a card comes back in a slab it takes different treatment again, because the case is now the thing that can be damaged. Our guide to PSA slab care covers that half of the problem.

Frequently asked questions

What size sleeves fit Naruto cards?

Standard size, for 63 by 88 millimetre cards — the same sleeve that fits Pokemon, Magic and Yu-Gi-Oh sized cards. Naruto does not use a special format, so there is no Naruto-specific sleeve to hunt for and no reason to pay a premium for one.

Should Naruto cards be sleeved even if they are low rarity?

Yes, and the reason is that handling damage happens before rarity matters. An R card that picks up a fingernail crease is damaged whether or not it is rare. Sleeving a whole opening is faster than sorting out the ones worth sleeving, which is why we sell sleeves in 100-count packs.

Do Naruto cards fit rigid holders?

They fit a standard 3 by 4 inch rigid holder, the product people also call a top loader. Naruto cards are standard size, so the fit is the same as any other modern card. Check the holder’s stated size rather than assuming, because holders are also sold in larger sizes for slabs and for oversized cards.

Should I put my Naruto chase cards in a binder?

It is usually better not to. A binder is the right answer for volume and the wrong answer for the cards you most want to protect, because pages get flipped and pages put pressure on cards. Keep the top tiers sleeved and in rigid holders, and use the binder for the base tiers.

Does UV protection actually do anything?

It slows UV fading, which matters for cards displayed in daylight and much less for cards stored in a box. It does not stop fading entirely, and it does nothing about humidity — a damp room will damage a collection faster than a bright one will.

The card-by-card detail is on the Naruto card list, and the sets and characters behind these cards are on our Naruto card index.

Sources

List of sources used

1. CardSpicy product specifications — sleeve thicknesses and rigid holder sizes, read from our own product listings.
2. CardSpicy — the protection standards page at cardspicy.com/card-protection-standards/, the general standard this page applies to Naruto.
3. CardSpicy — the PSA slab care guide at cardspicy.com/psa-slab-care/, for the cards once they are graded and encased.
4. KAYOU — Naruto collectible card product data, for the card format of the line.

The general version of this guidance is Card Protection Standards: Sleeves and Holders, and the card protection range covers every line on this site.

Quick answer

CardSpicy cannot rank Naruto cards by value, because no published price guide covers the line. What can be ranked is tier, and tier is what collectors actually chase. The cards below sit at the top of each release we track — the Land of Waves four, Zabuza and Haku among them, in Heaven Scroll and Jin Chapter Series 1; Kakashi in the SP tier of Series 1; Minato in the MR tier beside him; Gaara leading the Crystal Rare tier in Earth Scroll; and Itachi across the Series 3 numbered printings.

Without a price guide, the ordering that remains is the tier and the print run. That is not a worse ordering — it is a different one, and it is the one the manufacturer actually publishes.

Why tier is the ranking that works here

In a line with a price guide the ranking is obvious: the expensive cards are the chase cards. Naruto does not have that, so the ranking has to come from the product itself. Two things are published and reliable: the rarity code, and the numbered print run where one exists.

Where a card is numbered out of 99, that is a harder scarcity statement than any code. Where a card is an SE with a run of 199, 699 or 999, the denominator tells you more than the letters do. Read both.

Land of Waves: Zabuza and Haku

The clearest single group of chase cards in the line is the Land of Waves four: Sasuke, Naruto, Zabuza and Haku, printed as the SE cards of Heaven Scroll Series 1. It is a named group rather than an incidental one, and it is the first thing to look for when a Heaven Scroll box is opened.

Zabuza and Haku also hold SE slots in Jin Chapter Series 1, which means the same pair of characters sits at the top of two different releases. If you are collecting the pair specifically, there are two distinct cards to find rather than one.

Kakashi and Minato in Jin Chapter Series 1

Series 1 places Kakashi Hatake in its SP tier, where he is named alongside Naruto and Sasuke, and Minato Namikaze in its MR tier, again alongside Naruto and Kakashi. That makes Series 1 unusual: two of its top tiers are anchored by a teacher and a father rather than by the protagonist alone.

For a collector building around the Fourth Hokage, the MR tier of Series 1 is the card to look for. For Kakashi, it is the SP tier.

Gaara and the Crystal Rare tier

Earth Scroll introduces the CR tier — Crystal Rare — and it is a tier-two exclusive, which means it does not appear in the Jin Chapter sets we track at all. Gaara is the character most associated with it across Earth Scroll Series 1 and Series 2, alongside Neji in the same tier.

Earth Scroll Series 2 also adds a Diamond-UR tier of four cards, which Series 1 does not carry. If you are chasing the top of the Earth Scroll line, Series 2 is the version with the extra tier rather than simply a larger card list.

Itachi and the numbered printings

Itachi Uchiha has the widest spread across the top tiers we track. He is named in the CR tier of Earth Scroll Series 2 and in the BP tier of Jin Chapter Series 3, the North American edition built around numbered printings running to 99, 220, 777 and 999.

There is also a box named after him — the Itachi Cloud Box, which carries the CP tier, the Cloud Print, as an exclusive. That makes Itachi the character with a top tier that exists only inside a single product, which is a useful thing to know before looking for a CP card in a booster box.

How to search for one of these cards

Search by character name plus code plus set, in that order. A search for the character alone returns cards from every release at once, and on this line those cards look similar enough that the tier is often the only difference between them. Add the edition — SEA or NA — when the same series exists in both.

If a listing photo does not show the code and the card number, ask for one. On a line with no price guide, the code and the denominator are the only two facts in the listing you can check, and a seller who cannot produce them is a seller to slow down on.

Frequently asked questions

What is the most valuable Naruto card?

We do not answer that, and it is not evasion. No published price guide covers Naruto cards, so any single card named as the most valuable would be an opinion presented as a fact. What can be said is which cards sit at the top of each release by tier and print run, which is what this article does instead.

How many Land of Waves cards are there?

Four, as a named group: Sasuke, Naruto, Zabuza and Haku, printed as the SE cards of Heaven Scroll Series 1. Zabuza and Haku also hold SE slots in Jin Chapter Series 1, so the pair specifically exists in two releases rather than one.

Which Naruto set has the hardest chase cards?

It depends what you are chasing. Jin Chapter Series 3 carries the hardest scarcity statement, because its top tiers are numbered out of 99, 220, 777 and 999. Heaven Scroll Series 1 has the most recognisable named group, the Land of Waves four. Earth Scroll is where the CR tier lives, and the CR tier appears in no Jin Chapter set we track.

Where do the Itachi Cloud Box cards sit?

The CP tier — Cloud Print — is exclusive to the Itachi Cloud Box, so a CP card comes out of that product and not out of a booster box. That makes it one of the few tiers in the line tied to a single named product rather than to a tier of box.

Do these cards have prices listed anywhere on the site?

No. The Naruto section quotes no values, in any table, on any page. The reason is set out in our article on why there is no Naruto price guide: the inputs a price would need are not published for this line, and a number we cannot source is worse than no number.

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

1. KAYOU — Naruto set lists and the tier assignments within them, which is where the chase cards for each release are named.
2. Product packaging — numbered print runs and box-exclusive tiers as stated on the sealed packaging.
3. Community compiled set listings for the English Jin Chapter, Earth Scroll and Heaven Scroll editions.
4. CardSpicy — the Naruto card index at cardspicy.com/naruto-cards/, which carries the character grid and the set table behind this article.

The KAYOU Naruto sets guide covers the releases these cards come from, and why there is no Naruto price guide explains why this page ranks by tier instead of value.

Quick answer

CardSpicy tracks three Naruto card products: KAYOU’s Naruto collectible line, which is a card line rather than a game; Naruto Mythos, a playable trading card game that reached its second set in 2026; and Bandai’s Naruto Card Game, announced in 2026 with a worldwide release set for summer 2027.

The names overlap — KAYOU, Mythos and Bandai all put Naruto on a card — and the products have almost nothing else in common. Here is what each one actually is.

KAYOU Naruto — the collectible line

This is where most Naruto cards come from. KAYOU’s Naruto line began as a Simplified Chinese print run and now also ships English editions for North America and South-East Asia, under names like Jin Chapter, Earth Scroll and Heaven Scroll.

The important thing to know is what the cards are not: there is no cost, no combat value and no rules text on them. KAYOU Naruto is a collectible card line rather than a game. What governs a card’s standing is its rarity tier and its character, and the line runs a long ladder — from R at the bottom up through UR, AR, MR and BP to SE at the top, with a set of tier-exclusive codes in between.

KAYOU also runs numbered cards at the top of the line, where the print run is fixed and printed on the card. Those are the ones collectors track individually.

Naruto Mythos — the playable one

Naruto Mythos is an actual trading card game: you build a deck and play it. It is published by Zvezdar with Cicaboom, launched with a first set called Konoha Shido, and reached its second set, Shinobi Shiren, in 2026.

Its identity is built around limited printings. The first set introduced a small number of alternate secret rares limited to 75 copies each, and the second set extended the idea with a structured numbering system. Set 2 also carried genuine 22-karat gold cards with micro-engraved text, three of them limited to 1,500 copies each, and reworked the rarity balance so the top end is harder to reach while more of the middle stays obtainable.

It is a duelling game rather than a shelf product: a booster is built around Mission, Common, Uncommon, Holo and Rare cards, and the dedicated box sets ship with a preconstructed deck, tokens and a rulebook. If you want to sit down and play Naruto rather than collect it, this is the line where that is possible today.

Bandai’s Naruto Card Game — not out yet

Bandai Card Games — the same brand behind the Dragon Ball Super Card Game, the One Piece Card Game and the Gundam Card Game — announced a Naruto Card Game in 2026 and showed it publicly at Gen Con that summer.

The structure is known even though the cards are not generally available. A deck is built around a Leader card, whose colour defines what you can play, and games are won by reducing the opposing Leader’s Life to zero. Around the Leader sit Character cards, EX Character cards that unlock under set conditions, Chakra cards that pay for Jutsu, and Summon cards needed to bring characters into play. Characters can carry Ninjutsu, Genjutsu and Taijutsu, and Chakra is spent to trigger them.

The cast spans the whole franchise — Naruto, Shippuden and Boruto — and the art mixes original illustration with manga and anime artwork. The world debut was at Gen Con 2026, further reveals follow through the convention season, in-store tutorials begin in January 2027, and the worldwide release is set for summer 2027.

The one that ended

There is also an older Bandai Naruto Collectible Card Game, launched in English in 2006 and run for roughly seven years before it stopped in 2013, after twenty-eight sets. It was a proper duel game with fifty-card decks and a limit of three copies of any one card name, with Ninja cards attacking and Jutsu, Mission and Client cards supporting them.

That game is out of print. Its cards are not compatible with anything currently being made, and it is a different product from the Naruto Card Game Bandai announced in 2026. If a listing says Bandai and Naruto in the same breath, check which of the two it means.

Which one should you buy

• If you want to collect art and chase rarity: the KAYOU line. It has the widest choice today, it ships in English, and its rarity ladder gives you a clear target.
• If you want to play now: Naruto Mythos, which is the Naruto game currently on its second set.
• If you want the next release: Bandai’s Naruto Card Game, once it lands in summer 2027. Until then there is nothing to buy.

Frequently asked questions

Is KAYOU Naruto a trading card game?

No. KAYOU Naruto is an officially licensed collectible card line. The cards carry no cost, no combat values and no rules text, so there is nothing to play. If you want a Naruto game, look at Naruto Mythos or wait for Bandai’s 2027 release.

How many Naruto card games are there?

Three worth knowing about today. KAYOU’s collectible line, which is not a game; Naruto Mythos, which is a playable trading card game on its second set; and Bandai’s Naruto Card Game, announced in 2026 with a worldwide release set for summer 2027. The older Bandai Naruto Collectible Card Game ran from 2006 to 2013 and is out of print.

Are KAYOU Naruto cards and Naruto Mythos cards the same size?

They are standard trading card size, 63 by 88 millimetres, which is the same size as Pokemon, One Piece, Gundam and Dragon Ball cards. Sleeves and rigid holders sized for those fit these too.

What is a Leader card in Bandai’s Naruto Card Game?

The Leader card is the centre of a deck. Its colour decides which cards you are allowed to play, and you lose the game when your Leader’s Life reaches zero.

Can you play the old Bandai Naruto CCG with the new Naruto Card Game?

No. The old Naruto Collectible Card Game ended in 2013 and its cards are not compatible with anything currently being made, including the Naruto Card Game Bandai announced in 2026.

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

1. Bandai Card Games — Naruto Card Game announcement, gameplay reveal and Gen Con 2026 world debut, for card types, deck construction and the summer 2027 worldwide release window.
2. Zvezdar and Cicaboom — Naruto Mythos set announcements and retail product listings, for set names, numbered rares, gold cards, booster contents and the 2026 wave schedule.
3. KAYOU — Naruto collectible card product listings, for the set names, editions and pack configuration of the collectible line.

See also our Naruto card index, which covers the sets and characters behind the KAYOU line, and the KAYOU Naruto rarity guide for the tier ladder those cards use.

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

1. KAYOU — Naruto collectible card product listings and box information, for rarity codes and pack configuration.
2. Product packaging — rarity symbols, pull ratios and box-tier labelling as printed on the sealed product.
3. 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.