Clow Cards: A-F

The Arrow

The Arrow is an attack card capable of creating and firing a continuous stream of magical arrows. The arrows appear to strike like regular arrows but are capable of penetrating concrete, and a barrage of them can bend the steel infrastructure of a skyscraper. Arrow is very similar to Shot in their projectile uses, but Arrow is capable of multiple volleys while Shot can only fire single (though faster) shots.

Appearance

Arrow's visible form is a small, blue-purplish girl with a 'pudding basin' haircut and two long pigtails. Arrow carries a short bow.

Captured

• First Movie

Transformation

Arrow's transformation is not shown in the series.

The Big

When used, The Big enables a person or a specified object to grow to giant proprtions with seemingly no limits. In the anime, Big enlarges a cat to a size threatening to Sakura and company; however the cat is still as peaceful while big as it was while a small stray. When Syaoran rushes in to save Meiling after the cat pinned her to the ground, the cat turns its attention to Syaoran and begins licking his entire head. Shorty after it pins him down also and proceeds to rub its cheek all over his body.

Sakura later uses Big to become a giant and fight off one of the Create card's many creations (a giant dragon).

Appearance

Big's visible form resembles a very tall woman, dressed like a medieval princess with a two-star pointed hat. Big is almost an exact copy of its sister card, The Little, except for color and height.

Captured

• Episode 31 (Japanese Original)

Transformation

Big is transformed in Episode 55. When Sakura is stuck in Wonderland, she transforms it in order to return her to normal height (and then some) after Mad Hatter Toya's tea shrinks her.

Appearance

Bubbles's visible form appears to be a free-standing mound of pink bubbles. Bubbles's card form shows a small mermaid with long, thick hair made of bubbles.

Captured

• Bubbles's capture is not shown directly in the series, but episode 36 shows that Sakura had captured it over winter break (the time period following episode 35). Also, in the beginning of the second movie, Sakura is overheard capturing Bubbles in one of Tomoyo's recordings.

Transformation

Bubbles is transformed when Sakura uses it to bathe Cerberus in Episode 58.

The Change

The Change is able to do something involving changing. In case of the anime, Change is able to swap the minds (or bodies) of two people. This swapping can only occur once a day, and if a change is not reverted after some time, it becomes permanent. Syaoran and Keroberos have been victims of Change's ability, resulting in a rather unique day at school and at home, before Sakura is able to reverse their switched minds a day later.

Appearance

Change's visible form resembles a blue chameleon.

Captured

• Episode 32 (Japanese Original)

Transformation

Change is transformed in Episode 53 during Sakura's frantic wave of transformations.

The Cloud

The Cloud creates thick clouds all over the sky, also moving them however it pleases. Like Rain, it is not a very combative card.

Appearance

Cloud's visible form is very similar to The Rain's. The difference is that the designs on her dress are composed of clouds.

Captured

• Episode 39 (Japanese Original)

Transformation

Cloud is transformed in episode 69 when Sakura transforms the last remaining Clow Cards.

The Create

The Create is able to give existence to anything written in its visible form, a mostly blank storybook. There is no limit as to what can be brought to life, provided the writer keeps Create opened and filled with ideas. It can also give the writer inspirations. Created lifeforms can interact with their surroundings, whether benevolent or malevolent. However, its power is only active at night. In the anime, Naoko Yanagisawa (Nikki), after buying Create from its hiding place in a bookstore, writes a story in it about princesses, flying animals, and a dragon. All of the Naoko's characters come to life a short distance away in town. After its capture, Sakura continues to use this card to fight illusionary monsters, both for training and for Tomoyo's video recordings.

Appearance

Create's visible form is a thin brown book with a eight-pointed star-like compass design on the front.

Captured

• Episode 31 (Japanese Original)

Transformation

Create's transformation is not shown in the series. However, Create is seen to be transformed in a Video Diary - it is used along with Move to trick Cerberus.

The Light and The Dark

The Dark is able to warp space, creating darkness that can isolate and nullify non-magical beings if given enough time (like Erase). Dark is the first card under Yue and is special in that it cannot be physically attacked. Dark can only be defeated by The Light.

Appearance

Dark's visible form is a regal woman draped in black with straight ebony hair. On its Card, it clutches a crescent moon in one hand, and a star in the other.

Captured

• Episode 42 (Japanese Original)

Transformation

Dark is transformed in Episode 69; Sakura transforms it so that she can transform Light and end Eriol's spell. In the manga, Sakura transforms Dark (together with Light) in volume 11.

The Dash

The Dash is able to run at supernatural speeds for short distances. It can grant this ability to others as well. In the anime, Dash takes shelter at the home of Rei Tachibana (Jessie), one of Tomoeda Elementary's star track runners who takes in Dash after it escapes Sakura's initial attempt at capturing it. Dash helps Rei by speeding up her legs whenever she runs, allowing her to break records and to qualify for a position in the city-wide track meet. Sakura and Syaoran capture Dash prior to the competition, however, but Rei manages to advance to the final round on her own. She had been missing Dash, whom she named Peewee (Hoppy), but gains enough motivation to win the final hundred-meter dash when she sees an image of Dash at the end of the track. The image is not an illusion but Dash itself as summoned by Syaoran.

Appearance

Dash's visible form is a blue, fox-like creature with long rabbit ears.

Captured

• Episode 30 (Japanese original)

Transformation

In episode 53, Sakura panics when Cerberus warns her that untransformed Clow Cards will gradually lose their powers and, in response, frantically transforms a small assortment of cards into Sakura Cards. Sakura's magic is still too weak to transform all the remaining cards, however, and she nearly faints after about the seventh card. Unfortunately, the last card she attempted to transform, Dash, had not been completely transitioned. Its being now stuck between two magic sources causes Dash to panic and escape into town, possessing Toya's bicycle in the process. Sakura and Cerberus chase Dash into the park, where Sakura uses The Loop in order to catch up and get close to it. She takes Dash in her arms and calms it until she is able to perform a full transformation.

The Dream

The Dream is able to create all sorts of dreams, including prophetic ones for those with magical powers. Though it is not aggressive or malicious, dealing with it can be difficult, as it is relatively undetectable when one does not know it is nearby. Like with Return, Time can be used to disrupt it.

Appearance

One of Dream's visible forms is a mysterious blue butterfly. Another form is a female humanoid dressed in flowing robes and an elaborate headdress that covers its eyes, perhaps indicating its status as a blind prophet, such as the Greek prophet Tiresias.

Captured

• Episode 40 (Japanese Original)

Transformation

In Episode 62, Sakura transformed Dream in her sleep, causing her to have a dream involving Eriol, Spinel Sun, and Ruby Moon at Tsukimine Shrine.

The Earthy

The Earthy is capable of considerable property destruction by creating earthquakes and various other geological disturbances. As one of the four elementals and the last card to be captured in both manga and anime, it is perhaps the most powerful of the Clow Cards (except for The Nothing). However, in accordance with the Chinese balance of five elements, it is vulnerable to Wood.

Appearance

Earthy's visible form is a giant serpentine pile of earth and rock. In the manga it appears as the woman depicted on the Card. The woman form is briefly shown in the anime while Sakura is sealing the card.

Captured

• Episode 45 (Japanese Original)

Transformation

Earthy's transformation is not shown in the anime. In the manga (Volume 9) Sakura transforms Earthy in order to restore a hole made by Eriol at Penguin Park.

The Erase

The Erase has the power to make almost anything, including people, disappear. Erase also has the power to erase magical elements, once banishing a pit full of stuffed sheep created by Eriol during one of Sakura's trials. Once something has been erased by Erase it can be returned if the card is captured but, if that person or object is gone for too long, it disappears permanently.

Sakura first encounters Erase in the anime during a school field trip. A "Test of Courage" activity is held at night, where students are grouped in pairs or triples and must traverse a cave with only a candle for light. However, all the students that enter do not return, as Erase has erased them in the back of the cave. Eventually Sakura and Syaoran are the only students remaining. Sakura, after (temporarily) overcoming her fears, makes it to the end of the cave, where Erase lay waiting. After Erase's capture, all the students return to safety. Erase also uses her jester dress to Erase others.

Appearance

Erase often appears as a bank of grayish fog, but its visible form is a small imp dressed in a yellow-and-white-patterned court jesters outfit. It has a large ruff around its neck with a long hat with two points that trail almost to the ground. On the Card, it carries a matador's cape.

Captured

• Episode 17 (Japanese Original)
• Episode 15 (Full English Dub)
• Episode 3 (American Adaptation)

Transformation

Erase is transformed in Episode 52. In the English dub, Erase is transformed in episode 48. In the manga, Erase is transformed right before Sakura transforms Earthy in Volume 9.

The Fight

Knock-out blow

The Fight is an accomplished martial artist who lives for the challenge of seeking new opponents for her skills. Calling on Fight allows its caster to gain great fighting skills.

When first encountered in the anime, Fight is haunting the local park, looking for new opponents after having already beaten several of Tomoeda's best martial artists. Knowing that the only way to seal Fight is to defeat her in battle, Meiling Li (herself an accomplished fighter) tries to challenge Fight, but the card's supernatural strength and endurance prove too much for her, and she was defeated. Fight's next target is Sakura, who is both outmatched and outclassed compared to the card, but she fortunately manages to find a way.

In one final attack, Fight charges at Sakura. In a blind panic, Sakura counters by wielding her sealing wand, endowed with the enormous strength of The Power, crashing it down on Fight's head, knocking the card out cold. Fight likely suffers the most painful capture of any of the cards.

Appearance

In its visible form, Fight resembles a teenage girl with cropped shoulder length hair and four ponytails, two long and two short. She wears a blue leotard with white trimmings and a pair of blue and white thigh-length boots. Based on this appearance, it has been suggested that Fight is supposed to be Chinese rather than Japanese--a fact that would fit in well with its creator's Chinese heritage.

Captured

• Episode 20 (Japanese Original)
• Episode 18 (English Dub)
• Episode 6 (American Adaptation)

Transformation

Fight is transformed in episode 69 when Sakura transforms the last remaining Clow Cards.

The Firey

The Firey is a powerful attack card that is able to set things on fire and to attack using blasts of fire. As an element card under the symbol of the Sun, Firey is one of the cards directly linked to Keroberos. Kero receives a large power boost when Sakura captures it in the anime. In the manga, Firey's capture allows Kero to return to his true form (where Earthy is additionally required in the anime).

Firey is one of the most powerful Clow Cards, not only matching both Windy and Watery in strength but also having a highly aggressive nature that makes it more dangerous than both Cards. To defeat Firey, Sakura combines the power of both Windy and Watery, fellow elemental cards. Because of the brutal nature of its power and the card's rebellious attitude, Sakura rarely uses Firey. However in a fit of anger one night, Sakura unleashes Firey in order to neutralize (in seconds) The Snow.

Appearance

Firey appears to be one of the few male cards, whose visible form resembles a young boy with shoulder length blond hair, a bare torso, and very long elf-like ears. Firey has a corona of fire around its head and has no legs, but it flies on a column of fire. It also has large orange-feathered wings and could be said to represent a Phoenix.

Captured

• Episode 35 (Japanese Original)
• Episode 33 (Full English Dub)
• Episode 13 (American Adaptation)

Transformation

Firey is the first Clow Card transformed into a Sakura Card. Sakura transforms it in episode 48 when she realizes she must now utilize her own magical ability when summoning the Cards, instead of Clow's.

Sakura uses The Float in the elevator

The Float, as its name implies, likes to make things float. Float is a mischievous spirit, but it is also quite gentle and was easy for Sakura to seal. In the anime, Cerberus discovers Float when it starts levitating objects in a little girl's room, including the girl, Akane, herself. Kero contacts Sakura via a fax machine, and she arrives in time to seal Float away before it floats Akane above the atmosphere. Akane starts falling as a result, but Sakura uses Wood to cushion her descent.

In the American release of Cardcaptors, the Float Card's capture was never shown. The episode was cut for content due to Cerberus's getting drunk early in the episode.

Appearance

Float's visible form resembles a large balloon with white wings.

Captured

• Episode 15 (Japanese Original)
• Episode 15 (Full English Dub)
• Not shown (American Adaptation)

Transformation

Float was transformed during episode 57, when Sakura fell into darkness. It returned her to the floor of the elevator.

The Flower

The Flower has a gentle and fun loving spirit, able to create any kind of flower or blossom. Though she sometimes does this a little too enthusiastically, once nearly burying Sakura's school underneath a mountain of flower petals. Though Flower has no offensive capability, Sakura has used it to create bouquets and blossoms as presents for others.

In the manga (captured in volume 2), Flower has been used defensively to create a shield of blossoms around Sakura.

Appearance

Flower's visible form is a young lady in a long flowing pink dress, with corkscrew pigtails and a flower patten on her forehead. On its card, it appears to be holding a large blossom.

Captured

• Episode 10 (Japanese Original)
• Episode 10 (Full English Dub)
• Not shown (American Adaptation)

Transformation

Flower is transformed in Episode 54. Sakura used it to create flowers to include in her birthday present for her great-grandfather.

Sakura merges with The Fly

The Fly is the first Clow Card captured using Sakura's sealing wand. It has since become Sakura's most used card. When activated it adds large wings to the end of the sealing wand that allow Sakura (and at least one passenger) to fly. After its transformation into a Sakura Card, Sakura is able to use Fly's wings herself (they grow out of her back), allowing her to keep the sealing wand free to use with other cards.

In the anime, Fly is captured using Windy. In the Manga, Fly is hurt and then coaxed into returning to its card form by Sakura, without using any cards.

Fly is first seen in volume 1 of the manga.

Appearance

Fly resembles a giant white bird with a long neck and short beak.

Captured

• Episode 1 (Japanese Original)
• Episode 1 (Full English Dub)

Note: Like The Windy, capture of The Fly is only shown in the United States as a flashback during episode 16.

Transformation

Fly is transformed in episode 51 of the anime. This transformation is never screened in the United States because of scene deletions.

The Freeze

The Freeze is able to freeze things, emit ice as a weapon, and lower the temperature of a localized area to freezing point (and possibly beyond it). It is very crafty when using its abilities in combat, such as attacking with frozen glaciers or attacking targets from behind with pillars of ice. In the anime, Freeze lowers the temperature to freezing point inside a skating rink where Sakura's class has taken a field trip. In addition to the freezing temperatures, everybody except for Sakura, Syaoran, and Kaho Mizuki is magically frozen in ice. While Ms. Mizuki hides (the reason is left unsaid, but it is implied that she wants to let Sakura and Syaoran deal with the card on their own), Sakura and Syaoran are left to battle Freeze on the rink as it swims through the ice as if it were water.

Appearance

Freeze's visible form resembles a giant goldfish-like creature seemingly composed of ice.

Captured

• Episode 33 (Japanese Original)

Transformation

In Episode 60, Sakura used Freeze to stop some animated penguin statues.