General Discussion
The first ever group forum will be for the Naruto Kayou card packs! Many of you that are visiting this site from either the flea market or the Belmont market have most likely seen these card packs I sell. A majority of you may also have no idea what these cards are, or where they came from. In this forum I hope to raise awareness of what these cards are, the different rarities, how the tier and wave system works, and hopefully peak your interest in the cards while encouraging you guys to fan out and trade amongst each other for the cards that you want!
ABOUT THE CARDS
I stumbled upon the cards by accident while looking into anime trading card games and trying to see what I could buy that you guys might be interested in. These cards just so happened to pop up on search and it peaked my interest. I had never heard of a collectible card game for Naruto before, much less one based and operated by a Chinese company. However after doing some digging, I found out that the company Kayou was the Chinese Toys R Us and had the rights to make these cards, however they exclusively sold them in China only. Because of this, you will never see them in major retail markets that sell trading cards, as they will not deal with individual market sellers, but that appears to be the only way to obtain the cards so far.
HOW THEY WORK
Now I am still learning about the cards, but I do have enough knowledge to understand how they work, why they have value, and why there are also so many different boxes of what appears to be the same thing.
How The Wave And Tier System Work
Each tier has a special rarity that is unique to that tier only, and within that tier, certain wave boxes will contain the special rarity usually starting at the 2nd wave and above only. In each wave there are usually certain character cards that can be pulled out of only that specific box. Because of this, you would have to buy from virtually every single box in that tier if you were searching for a specific character card on that rarity. Since each one is different based on character and rarity, you have to look in the box that carries that rarity and guess which one has the character card you want. With all the different boxes this could take forever, hence one of the reasons why the cards have such decent value.
The Different Rarity Levels
Now you may think that the rarity levels are equivalent to that of your standard trading card game. Well you couldn't be more wrong. There are almost 30 DIFFERENT RARITY LEVELS!!! This means that there are also almost 30 different card designs for each character that has a card. Since the company and the cards themselves are relatively new, they are also adding more levels from time to time, so be aware of that. Here is a list of the different card Levels. Keep in mind that a lot of these card rarities are unique to their Tier and Wave. Not only that, but some are limited time only and don't circle around after the initial wave is sold out!
(* means that it is exclusively found in a specific Tier and Wave box.)
R/R (Holo)
SR
SSR
TR*/HR*
TGR*
ZR*
UR
OR
AR
SLR*
SP
CP*
GP*
MR
CR*
NR*
BP*
SE*
-(Limited Time only!)
LR
20TH
SCR
PR
BR
SV
-(RECENTLY RELEASED LVLS)
USR
PTR
QR
XR
Tier 1 Naruto Kayou packs
Tier 1 packs don't guarantee that you get holo rare cards, these packs also make it hard to pull the rare cards that are UR and above that aren't exclusive. However the GP cards are only found in this tier starting at wave 2 and up. You cannot find them in wave 1, only above that. They are still hard to come by so good luck!
Tier 2 Naruto Kayou packs
Tier 2 packs should come with nothing but holo Rare cards, as well as the exclusive chance at ZR and CR cards! You can pull CR cards starting at wave 2 and up, but ZR cards are found in wave 4 and up only. They are running a tight ship there, so those can't be an easy pull.
Tier 3 Naruto Kayou Packs
Tier 3 packs also have Holo Rare cards instead of regular Rare. TR and TGR cards are exclusively found at this tier from all waves. Rainbow NR cards can be pulled starting at wave 2.
Tier 4 Naruto Kayou packs
Tier 4 packs include Tier Exclusive Hologram HR cards in each pack. BP can also be found in this tier starting at wave 2, you also have the slight chance of pulling rainbow SLR cards out of these packs.
New Age Naruto Packs
Exclusively PTR, QR, XR
Card limits
Certain cards are printed in limited quantities, but we can discuss that another time. Do be aware that these cards are easily over $300 in value each and usually require two cards to make a full picture.
What about the other Kayou packs?
You may have noticed the Jujutsu Kaisen card packs as well, along with the Saint Seiya packs. I'm actually not 100% on either packs because they are new, as in released towards the end of 2023. I do know however that the Jujutsu cards have at least 5 different rarity tiers, same as seiya. However, Saint Seiya has a limited edition card that was limited to 90 prints of the card, so its super rare! We can create discussions on those as well, but we will start with Naruto and move forward from there. Who knows, they may release another box for the shibuya arc of Jujutsu.
That's all from me for now. If you have any other questions, please let me know down below. If you have already started opening packs and collecting cards I would love to see what cards you have pulled and what character cards you want to collect! Please share everything down below and lets figure this out together!