Gen Con Naruto Chakra Promo Cards Resell for Over $1,000

We first covered Bandai’s Naruto Card Game announcement back in June, when Bandai confirmed the long rumored TCG and revealed that Gen Con 2026 attendees would get first access.

Attendees who completed a free tutorial session at the con walked away with a gift set containing the CP-001 Chakra Card Gen Con 2026 Ver, a backpack, a sticker, and a voucher for the official playmat once it ships in 2027. That Chakra card, the first card in the entire game, is the whole opportunity here. It doesn’t exist anywhere else yet, and Bandai hasn’t said if or when that will change.

Gen Con wraps up tomorrow, but landing one of these cards is no longer realistic for anyone without a badge already in hand. Tutorial session tickets sold out over a month ago, and there’s no waitlist or standby line to get around it.

Now that cards are actually in collectors’ hands, sold listings on eBay show a tight, consistent range. Raw copies are trading for $1,000 to $1,200, with multiple confirmed sales backing that up rather than just optimistic asking prices.

One seller went a step further and bundled their card with the exclusive Gen Con playmat voucher and backpack, and that lot sold for $1,800.

Supply here is about as tight as it gets. Only attendees who finished a tutorial session got a card, tickets sold out weeks before the con even started, and Bandai hasn’t announced a general release version. Pair that with a franchise as big as Naruto and a card that predates the actual TCG launch by a full year, and the math works out thoroughly in resellers’ favor.

The Gen Con card has real scarcity behind it right now, and the sold data backs up the asking prices. That said, remember Gen Con badges were final sale once the refund window closed, so anyone who bought in purely for this opportunity was carrying real risk before a single card changed hands.

Bandai’s Naruto TCG buzz is strong well beyond Gen Con. We’re tracking a similar situation with the New York Yankees, who are giving away their own Naruto promo card during a September 8 theme night. Resellers are already flipping presale listings for those cards for up to $800 on eBay, despite the card’s design not even being revealed yet. Many collectors suspect it will turn out to be an official Bandai card too, though that’s still unconfirmed, and the speculation alone has already pushed ticket prices higher as buyers try to guarantee themselves a shot at one.