Sakura Cards information (manga)
"In the manga series, there are nineteen cards specifically named, while the anime series has fifty-three (fifty-two in the series proper, the last from the second movie). The Clow Cards were created by the half-English, half-Chinese sorcerer Clow Reed. After Clow's death the cards were sealed in the Clow Book, only to be released in contemporary times when a new 'chosen one' appeared. The cards represent a combination of Eastern and Western magic centered on the concepts of natural forces and elements. Each Clow Card has its own personality, ranging from good-natured to violent, and its own powers that are mostly centered around an elemental force or performing a specific task. When in use or acting on their own, the cards assume alternative forms that vary from card to card. The original Clow Cards fall under a specific sign, sun or moon, corresponding to the guardians Cerberus and Yue.
The nineteen cards in the manga are The Light, The Dark, The Windy, The Earthy, The Firery, The Wood, The Watery, The Flower, The Fly, The Jump, The Erase, The Mirror, The Maze, The Illusion, The Sword, The Shield, The Shadow, The Thunder, and The Glow."
Sakura manages to transform the Clow Cards into Sakura Cards in the second half of the series after she discovers her own form of magic, one that corresponds to the Stars rather than the Sun or the Moon.
The Dark (闇)
The Dark (闇) is able to warp space, creating darkness that can isolate and nullify non-magical beings if given enough time (like Erase). Dark is an elemental card in a category of its own, outside the four basic elemental cards and is the first card under Yue. The Dark is special in that it cannot be physically attacked. It can only be sealed after two things have happened. First, Sakura had to realize which card it was, like she did with The Mirror. Second, she must then find a way to break the Dark. The Dark interrupted Sakura and Syaoran's play in episode 42 where they were about to kiss, engulfing everyone except Sakura and Cerberus in darkness. Sakura was able to defeat the Dark by releasing the Light card which had been awakened all along within Sakura's soul. It was all revealed to be a test and the two cards requested to be sealed together. It is explained that Light and Dark, are always together, and thus are sealed together, and transformed together.
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.
The Earthy (地)
The Earthy (地) 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). However, in accordance with the Chinese balance of five elements, it is vulnerable to Wood. Sakura captures it in episode 45 using Wood. This capture finally allows Cerberus to regain his true form.
Earthy's visible form is a giant dragon 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. It is shown in a close up of the card that she wears a cape and has a tuff of green on her forehead and her hair is in two swirls.
The Erase (消)
The Erase (消) 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. Erase also bears the ability to erase other people's memory.
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 laid waiting. After Erase's capture in episode 17, all the students return to safety, although it erased all of their memories, but Tomoyo was informed by Sakura of what really happened. Erase also uses her jester dress to Erase others.
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 cape posed as if to hide something -- similar to how magicians use capes during a magic trick.
Erase is under Dark.
The Firey (火)
The Firey (火) is one of the elemental cards. The Firey is one of the two basic elemental cards (aside from Light and Dark), that is directly connected to Cerberus. (The other being the Earthy). The Firey has the power to control or summon fire. It is no more powerful than the other elemental cards but is warned to be used with care. Cerberus warned Sakura that if she used it without care it would do as asked but could harm the user. In order to stop The Firey, Sakura combined The Windy and The Watery to double the force and easily defeats her, allowing her to turn her back into a card.
The Firey resembles an angel covered with flames. It my also have legs without the fire. It was shown after The Windy and The Watery defeated her that legs were still one fire.
The Flower (花)
he Flower (花) has a gentle and fun loving spirit, able to create any kind of flower or blossom. However, she sometimes does this a little too enthusiastically, once nearly burying Sakura's school underneath a mountain of flower petals. Soon after discovering this was the cause of a Clow card, Sakura uses the Fly, to see the source of where the flowers are coming from. She finds the Flower, dancing on top of her school building. According to Cerberus, the Flower is a card that loves to play and party, and was causing so much mischief because she wasn't invited to attend Sakura's school athletic festival. At the end of the chapter (in Volume 2) Sakura uses the Flower card to stop the arguing between Fujitaka Kinomoto (Sakura's father), and Sonomi Daidouji (Tomoyo's mother) by giving them both a Nadeshiko, which was the name of Sakura's mother.
Though Flower has no offensive capability, Sakura has used it to create bouquets and blossoms as presents for others. Sakura also witnessed Clow Reed using it to bring a tree into blossom when she uses The Return to go back to Clow's time in Episode 68. In the manga (captured in volume 2), Flower has been used defensively to create a shield of blossoms around Sakura.
Flower's visible form is a young lady in a long flowing pink dress, with corkscrew pigtails and a flower pattern on her forehead. On its card, it appears to be holding a large blossom. Flower was captured in episode 10. She is under Earthy.
The Fly (翔)
The Fly (翔) is the first Clow Card captured using Sakura's sealing wand (episode 1 in the anime). 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 manga however, Windy's powers are ineffective towards the Fly. Cerberus says it's because the Fly, is a card bassed off of Windy's magic. Failing her first attempt to capture the Fly, Sakura returned home. That night Fly came to Sakura in a dream (which is the first demonstration of Sakura's premonition abilities) in which the Fly was badly injured. After her dream, Sakura takes her second attempt to capture the Fly. There, Sakura realized that her dream was true, and noticed that the Fly wasn't an aggressive card, but was scared because of its wound. Sakura used the Jump, to reach the Fly, and hugged it to calm it down. Fly then came to Sakura willingly.
Fly resembles a giant white bird with a long neck and short beak. It is under Windy.
The Glow (灯)
The Glow (灯) is one of the harmless cards, as its only power is the ability to create hundreds of tiny glowing orbs that resemble fireflies. It is the card that caused the least trouble in Tomoeda before its capture. Sakura first encounters Glow during the summer festival at Tsukimine Shrine, where it was casting tiny glowing lights among the trees. In the manga, Glow was caught due to another one of Sakura's "Prophet," dreams in which she dreamed herself in the festival saying "It's probably a Clow Card!"
When enacting its power, Glow casts off hundreds of tiny softly glowing green orbs that float down slowly to the ground like flower petals. In its visible form, it resembles a tiny fairy that has a glowing tail like a firefly.
She is under Light.
The Illusion (幻)
The Illusion (幻) is an aggressive card (reasons for this behavior are unknown) capable of creating an illusion based on whatever the viewer expects to see or wants to see. This means that each person will see something different when viewing the illusion unless they are all thinking of the same thing at the same time. Usually this illusion takes the form of whatever the person is most afraid of, though it has been known to take the form of whatever is most significant in a person's mind at the time. A proof is its first apparition in front of Sakura and her school friends in a forest; all of the girls saw horrific monsters (all of them with different looks) except for Tomoyo, who said she saw the Penguin King flying over a lake, because she was thinking of the Penguin King Park at the time.
In the manga, it disguises itself as Nadeshiko and tries to drown Sakura by luring her into a lake and holding her down. While Cerberus attempted to save Sakura, it's later explained that Sakura's happiness at the time of being reunited with her mother, rejected Cerberus from entering the lake (this is one of the examples of magic Sakura uses without the help of her cards). Sakura is rescued by Yukito Tsukishiro when she first attempts to capture Illusion. Later, after almost being tricked again, she is able to see through the illusion created by the card, at which point it reverts to its visible form, allowing Sakura to seal it. Later however, Toya, who hadn't seen Nadeshiko's ghost since middle school, suddenly saw Nadeshiko's true spirit. In the manga, she leaves saying "I was a bit worried this time, but I'm glad she (Sakura) is okay." Nadeshiko's true spirit was then illustrated as a "Tenshi," or an Angel.
Illusion can change its form based on what the watcher expects to see, but while transitioning between forms, it resembles a kaleidoscope pattern. It is under Dark.
The Jump (跳)
The Jump (跳) is one of Sakura's most used cards along with The Windy and The Fly. While Fly is often used for long-distance travel, Jump is used for evasion when battling a Clow Card entity.
When summoned Jump appears as pair of wings on Sakura's ankles and allows her not only to jump great distances but also to land safely from falls that would otherwise kill her. In the anime Jump appears to have a number of other powers, including the ability to possess inanimate objects, allowing them to jump, as well as the ability to merge many smaller objects into a larger version of itself. Sakura never uses these additional powers, though, and they are never demonstrated in the manga.
In the manga (volume 1), Jump has the distinction of being the very first card shown to be captured by Sakura and is used to introduce the spirits inside the Clow Cards. No back-story is given about what Jump was up to when it was caught, but it is sealed after being bound by a chain created by Windy. According to Cerberus, Jump is not very bright. When Sakura faces Yue in the Final Judgment, Yue uses Jump in order to summon her towards him. She, at the time, was under his powerful 'moonlight' hypnosis spell.
In its visible form, Jump resembles a rather strange looking stuffed pink rabbit with long floppy ears, in its card form The Jump has a pair of wings. It is under Windy.
The Light (光)
The Light (光) is able to create and control light, also able to turn night into day. Light is in a category of its own, outside the four basic elements and is the first card under Cerberus. It is revealed that Light had resided in Sakura's heart all along, ever since she accidentally scattered the Clow Cards using Windy. Light and Dark are always together and the two most loyal cards, making them the most difficult for Sakura to transform into Sakura cards.
Light's visible form is a regal woman draped in white with white flowing hair. Its Card form clutches a sun in one hand, and a cloud in the other.
The Maze (迷)
The Maze (迷) is able to create pocket dimensions inside the real world, which contain giant mazes. Unlike conventional mazes, which work in three dimensions, the puzzles created by Maze are twisted through four or more dimensions, allowing people to walk upside-down, up staircases that cannot really exist, and generally to become lost in a world that defies the laws of perspective.
Maze also prevents any kind of "cheating" by raising walls to stop people from climbing over them and by repairing walls that have been damaged by people trying to break through. Maze also cannot be captured from the inside.
Maze is the first Clow Card that Sakura and Syaoran are unable to conquer on their own. They needed the powers of Kaho Mizuki and her Moon Bell, which was able to break through Maze's walls. As such, the card recognizes Kaho as its master and initially goes to her. Kaho, however, gives it to Sakura, who takes ownership by signing her name on the card.
Maze is invisible from the outside, but from the inside it resembles a multi-dimensional green maze with upside-down staircases and impossible perspectives similar to those drawn by M. C. Escher in his sketch called "Relativity". It is under Earth.
The Mirror (鏡)
The Mirror (鏡) is able to copy people like a reflection in a mirror and (literally) become that person. It is also capable of becoming a mirror and reflecting objects. Mirror appears to be troublesome and mischievous, but it really is a frightened and lost spirit. Mirror is the most human of the cards, as its ability to duplicate an identical copy of its (usually human) target also allows it to speak and express emotions. Before its capture, Mirror injures Toya but later is seen crying in guilt about it. Right before returning to card form, Mirror (in her normal visible form) apologizes to Toya. Mirror seems to have a special affection and is very shy towards Toya.
Mirror is one of Sakura's most helpful cards, as Sakura can essentially clone herself in order to be in two places at once. Usually this is done in situations where Sakura must distract Toya in order to capture or transform cards; unfortunately, Toya sees through the magic right away. However Toya keeps this a secret, instead interacting with Mirror as if it were an individual person. Through these interactions, Mirror develops a fondness for Toya, though never reaching a point of confessing her feelings (if they are that deep).
Mirror's visible form resembles a beautiful green-haired girl, draped in a long flowing hanfu holding a mirror in her hands. On some occasions, Mirror just appears as the mirror that she carries, useful for reflecting images and deflecting magical attacks.
The Shadow (影)
The Shadow (影) is a mysterious card able to manipulate shadows. It can gather shadows from people or things to increase its own power, but these shadows fade when they are exposed to bright light, leaving only Shadow itself behind. According to Cerberus, "Shadow can touch us, but we can't touch it."
In volume 2 of the manga, Shadow appears in a sweets shop where it tries to tip over shelves on the customers. After seeing that Syaoran Li's thunder wards are able to dissolve the shadows captured by Shadow, Sakura uses Thunder to the same effect and was able to capture it after pinning it with Sword. This is the first time that Syaoran and Sakura work together to capture a Clow Card.
Shadow looks like a cloaked figure in a black cloak and hood resembling the Grim Reaper.
The Shield (盾)
The Shield (盾) is Sakura's most-used defensive card, able to create a shell around its target that is impenetrable to almost all physical and magical attacks, including the effects of other Cards (i.e. Time). Shield has a protective personality and is first seen protecting a box containing keepsakes belonging to the Daidōji family, even to the point of keeping Tomoyo and Sonomi from opening the box at all. However, the Sword was able to penetrate through the Shield, thus enabling Sakura to capture Shield.
When guarding an object, Shield appears as a blue-white-green sphere or dome. For all other uses it is a single 'Clow Wing' shield with a red jewel on both sides. In its card form the Shield is chained by several chains for some unknown reason, like the Sword.
The Sword (剣)
The Sword (剣) is able to cut through almost anything, including magical barriers. The card gains its strength from the heart of the person who wields it and gives the wielder the skills of a master swordsman. However, Sword can also overwhelm and take control of the person holding it, especially if he or she is non-magical. Sword is so powerful that it is even capable of penetrating through the Shield, thus enabling Sakura to capture Shield. The Sword can even slash through the time and space continuum warps created by the Loop in Episode 21, thus allowing Sakura to seal Loop.
Although Sword has its own form, Sakura is only able to use it by binding its power to the sealing wand, turning it into a sword.
Curiously, Syaoran's Tsurugi Sword is able to deflect several blows from Sword with relative ease. Presumably, its magical nature protected it from damage.
The Sword has two forms: a sword-shaped brooch and a sword. In both forms it resembles a European rapier. Its hilt and hand-guard resemble Clow's wing emblem. In its card form the Sword is chained by several chains for some unknown reason, like the Shield. However it is one suggested theory that both are in chains due to them being the only cards to transform into actual weapons instead of calling upon an animated spirit. Unusually for a sword, Sword finishes in a diamond shaped tip, rather than a conventional tapered or chiseled tip.
The Thunder (雷)
The Thunder (雷) is able to summon a bolt of lightning, similar to Syaoran's often-used "Raitei Shourai" spell, and is one of Sakura's early offensive cards.
In its visible form, Thunder resembles a large wolf and is made out of crackling blue-white energy. Its appearance is similar to Japanese mythology, resembling a raiju or thunder creature.
The Watery (水)
The Watery (水) is one of the four elemental cards. It has a very temperamental personality and is able to control water and create whirlpools and tidal waves. Watery appears to be female, although her looks are somewhat boyish.
Watery first appears in school's swimming pool, where it tried to drown a number of students. Sakura manages to capture Watery by luring it into a walk-in freezer and locking it in until it froze.
Watery is able to absorb power from other water-based cards and is one of the two elemental cards directly linked to Yue (the other being the passive more gentle counterpart, The Windy).
Sakura uses Watery in an attempt to defeat Earthy, but Earthy does not seem to be affected by Watery's powers.
Watery resembles a blue mermaid with webbed fingers and large ears that appear to be a cross between webbed flippers and pointed elf's ears. It has no legs but instead rides on a column of water that resembles a tail. Watery can also dissolve itself into any body of water, becoming indistinguishable from its surroundings.
The Windy (風)
The Windy (風) is one of the four elemental cards. Being so, it is one of the most powerful Clow Cards. However, although it is powerful enough to create massive whirlwinds, it is explained that The Windy is probably the most gentle and non aggressive card. Instead of being used for attack, Sakura uses the Windy to "Bind," her enemies as she chants "Wind, become my binding chain!"
It is one of Sakura's most useful cards, as it helps her capture other Clow Cards by binding them in its winds. Windy is also the only Clow Card that Sakura does not have to capture. In the manga, the Windy was scattered along with the rest of the cards, yet because of its gentle nature, the Windy simply returned peacefully to the Clow Book. In the anime, Windy can be used by the other cards as a conduit to communicate with each other (in a sort of fortune telling). Windy is one of the two elemental cards directly linked to Yue (the other being the offensive/aggressive counterpart The Watery).
Windy is mostly yellow-coloured and looks like a woman with wings (like a Fairy) on her shoulders and coming out of her forehead.
The Wood (樹)
The Wood (樹) is a gentle spirit that is able to create trees, branches, and vines. Sakura often uses Wood to form cages with which to trap other Clow Cards. Although gentle in nature, Wood sometimes becomes "overexcited" when exposed to water cards, and it can even draw enough power from them to escape its card form even after capture.
Sakura, even after the use of many other cards, could not capture the Earthy, but, in accordance with the Chinese balance of five elements, wood is superior to earth, so Wood was able to overpower Earthy.
Although Wood can form herself into trees and branches, her natural form appears to be a small mossy green and yellow wood nymph about 8 inches high. She has long green leaf-like hair with vines and wears tiara made of leaves.
**All the information in this post has been taken from The Cardcaptor Sakura wiki (with a bit of editing) because they explain it far better than I ever could.
Only the 19 Cards from the manga are mentioned here because I'm playing manga-verse!Sakura.
The nineteen cards in the manga are The Light, The Dark, The Windy, The Earthy, The Firery, The Wood, The Watery, The Flower, The Fly, The Jump, The Erase, The Mirror, The Maze, The Illusion, The Sword, The Shield, The Shadow, The Thunder, and The Glow."
Sakura manages to transform the Clow Cards into Sakura Cards in the second half of the series after she discovers her own form of magic, one that corresponds to the Stars rather than the Sun or the Moon.
The Dark (闇)
The Dark (闇) is able to warp space, creating darkness that can isolate and nullify non-magical beings if given enough time (like Erase). Dark is an elemental card in a category of its own, outside the four basic elemental cards and is the first card under Yue. The Dark is special in that it cannot be physically attacked. It can only be sealed after two things have happened. First, Sakura had to realize which card it was, like she did with The Mirror. Second, she must then find a way to break the Dark. The Dark interrupted Sakura and Syaoran's play in episode 42 where they were about to kiss, engulfing everyone except Sakura and Cerberus in darkness. Sakura was able to defeat the Dark by releasing the Light card which had been awakened all along within Sakura's soul. It was all revealed to be a test and the two cards requested to be sealed together. It is explained that Light and Dark, are always together, and thus are sealed together, and transformed together.
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.
The Earthy (地)
The Earthy (地) 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). However, in accordance with the Chinese balance of five elements, it is vulnerable to Wood. Sakura captures it in episode 45 using Wood. This capture finally allows Cerberus to regain his true form.
Earthy's visible form is a giant dragon 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. It is shown in a close up of the card that she wears a cape and has a tuff of green on her forehead and her hair is in two swirls.
The Erase (消)
The Erase (消) 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. Erase also bears the ability to erase other people's memory.
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 laid waiting. After Erase's capture in episode 17, all the students return to safety, although it erased all of their memories, but Tomoyo was informed by Sakura of what really happened. Erase also uses her jester dress to Erase others.
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 cape posed as if to hide something -- similar to how magicians use capes during a magic trick.
Erase is under Dark.
The Firey (火)
The Firey (火) is one of the elemental cards. The Firey is one of the two basic elemental cards (aside from Light and Dark), that is directly connected to Cerberus. (The other being the Earthy). The Firey has the power to control or summon fire. It is no more powerful than the other elemental cards but is warned to be used with care. Cerberus warned Sakura that if she used it without care it would do as asked but could harm the user. In order to stop The Firey, Sakura combined The Windy and The Watery to double the force and easily defeats her, allowing her to turn her back into a card.
The Firey resembles an angel covered with flames. It my also have legs without the fire. It was shown after The Windy and The Watery defeated her that legs were still one fire.
The Flower (花)
he Flower (花) has a gentle and fun loving spirit, able to create any kind of flower or blossom. However, she sometimes does this a little too enthusiastically, once nearly burying Sakura's school underneath a mountain of flower petals. Soon after discovering this was the cause of a Clow card, Sakura uses the Fly, to see the source of where the flowers are coming from. She finds the Flower, dancing on top of her school building. According to Cerberus, the Flower is a card that loves to play and party, and was causing so much mischief because she wasn't invited to attend Sakura's school athletic festival. At the end of the chapter (in Volume 2) Sakura uses the Flower card to stop the arguing between Fujitaka Kinomoto (Sakura's father), and Sonomi Daidouji (Tomoyo's mother) by giving them both a Nadeshiko, which was the name of Sakura's mother.
Though Flower has no offensive capability, Sakura has used it to create bouquets and blossoms as presents for others. Sakura also witnessed Clow Reed using it to bring a tree into blossom when she uses The Return to go back to Clow's time in Episode 68. In the manga (captured in volume 2), Flower has been used defensively to create a shield of blossoms around Sakura.
Flower's visible form is a young lady in a long flowing pink dress, with corkscrew pigtails and a flower pattern on her forehead. On its card, it appears to be holding a large blossom. Flower was captured in episode 10. She is under Earthy.
The Fly (翔)
The Fly (翔) is the first Clow Card captured using Sakura's sealing wand (episode 1 in the anime). 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 manga however, Windy's powers are ineffective towards the Fly. Cerberus says it's because the Fly, is a card bassed off of Windy's magic. Failing her first attempt to capture the Fly, Sakura returned home. That night Fly came to Sakura in a dream (which is the first demonstration of Sakura's premonition abilities) in which the Fly was badly injured. After her dream, Sakura takes her second attempt to capture the Fly. There, Sakura realized that her dream was true, and noticed that the Fly wasn't an aggressive card, but was scared because of its wound. Sakura used the Jump, to reach the Fly, and hugged it to calm it down. Fly then came to Sakura willingly.
Fly resembles a giant white bird with a long neck and short beak. It is under Windy.
The Glow (灯)
The Glow (灯) is one of the harmless cards, as its only power is the ability to create hundreds of tiny glowing orbs that resemble fireflies. It is the card that caused the least trouble in Tomoeda before its capture. Sakura first encounters Glow during the summer festival at Tsukimine Shrine, where it was casting tiny glowing lights among the trees. In the manga, Glow was caught due to another one of Sakura's "Prophet," dreams in which she dreamed herself in the festival saying "It's probably a Clow Card!"
When enacting its power, Glow casts off hundreds of tiny softly glowing green orbs that float down slowly to the ground like flower petals. In its visible form, it resembles a tiny fairy that has a glowing tail like a firefly.
She is under Light.
The Illusion (幻)
The Illusion (幻) is an aggressive card (reasons for this behavior are unknown) capable of creating an illusion based on whatever the viewer expects to see or wants to see. This means that each person will see something different when viewing the illusion unless they are all thinking of the same thing at the same time. Usually this illusion takes the form of whatever the person is most afraid of, though it has been known to take the form of whatever is most significant in a person's mind at the time. A proof is its first apparition in front of Sakura and her school friends in a forest; all of the girls saw horrific monsters (all of them with different looks) except for Tomoyo, who said she saw the Penguin King flying over a lake, because she was thinking of the Penguin King Park at the time.
In the manga, it disguises itself as Nadeshiko and tries to drown Sakura by luring her into a lake and holding her down. While Cerberus attempted to save Sakura, it's later explained that Sakura's happiness at the time of being reunited with her mother, rejected Cerberus from entering the lake (this is one of the examples of magic Sakura uses without the help of her cards). Sakura is rescued by Yukito Tsukishiro when she first attempts to capture Illusion. Later, after almost being tricked again, she is able to see through the illusion created by the card, at which point it reverts to its visible form, allowing Sakura to seal it. Later however, Toya, who hadn't seen Nadeshiko's ghost since middle school, suddenly saw Nadeshiko's true spirit. In the manga, she leaves saying "I was a bit worried this time, but I'm glad she (Sakura) is okay." Nadeshiko's true spirit was then illustrated as a "Tenshi," or an Angel.
Illusion can change its form based on what the watcher expects to see, but while transitioning between forms, it resembles a kaleidoscope pattern. It is under Dark.
The Jump (跳)
The Jump (跳) is one of Sakura's most used cards along with The Windy and The Fly. While Fly is often used for long-distance travel, Jump is used for evasion when battling a Clow Card entity.
When summoned Jump appears as pair of wings on Sakura's ankles and allows her not only to jump great distances but also to land safely from falls that would otherwise kill her. In the anime Jump appears to have a number of other powers, including the ability to possess inanimate objects, allowing them to jump, as well as the ability to merge many smaller objects into a larger version of itself. Sakura never uses these additional powers, though, and they are never demonstrated in the manga.
In the manga (volume 1), Jump has the distinction of being the very first card shown to be captured by Sakura and is used to introduce the spirits inside the Clow Cards. No back-story is given about what Jump was up to when it was caught, but it is sealed after being bound by a chain created by Windy. According to Cerberus, Jump is not very bright. When Sakura faces Yue in the Final Judgment, Yue uses Jump in order to summon her towards him. She, at the time, was under his powerful 'moonlight' hypnosis spell.
In its visible form, Jump resembles a rather strange looking stuffed pink rabbit with long floppy ears, in its card form The Jump has a pair of wings. It is under Windy.
The Light (光)
The Light (光) is able to create and control light, also able to turn night into day. Light is in a category of its own, outside the four basic elements and is the first card under Cerberus. It is revealed that Light had resided in Sakura's heart all along, ever since she accidentally scattered the Clow Cards using Windy. Light and Dark are always together and the two most loyal cards, making them the most difficult for Sakura to transform into Sakura cards.
Light's visible form is a regal woman draped in white with white flowing hair. Its Card form clutches a sun in one hand, and a cloud in the other.
The Maze (迷)
The Maze (迷) is able to create pocket dimensions inside the real world, which contain giant mazes. Unlike conventional mazes, which work in three dimensions, the puzzles created by Maze are twisted through four or more dimensions, allowing people to walk upside-down, up staircases that cannot really exist, and generally to become lost in a world that defies the laws of perspective.
Maze also prevents any kind of "cheating" by raising walls to stop people from climbing over them and by repairing walls that have been damaged by people trying to break through. Maze also cannot be captured from the inside.
Maze is the first Clow Card that Sakura and Syaoran are unable to conquer on their own. They needed the powers of Kaho Mizuki and her Moon Bell, which was able to break through Maze's walls. As such, the card recognizes Kaho as its master and initially goes to her. Kaho, however, gives it to Sakura, who takes ownership by signing her name on the card.
Maze is invisible from the outside, but from the inside it resembles a multi-dimensional green maze with upside-down staircases and impossible perspectives similar to those drawn by M. C. Escher in his sketch called "Relativity". It is under Earth.
The Mirror (鏡)
The Mirror (鏡) is able to copy people like a reflection in a mirror and (literally) become that person. It is also capable of becoming a mirror and reflecting objects. Mirror appears to be troublesome and mischievous, but it really is a frightened and lost spirit. Mirror is the most human of the cards, as its ability to duplicate an identical copy of its (usually human) target also allows it to speak and express emotions. Before its capture, Mirror injures Toya but later is seen crying in guilt about it. Right before returning to card form, Mirror (in her normal visible form) apologizes to Toya. Mirror seems to have a special affection and is very shy towards Toya.
Mirror is one of Sakura's most helpful cards, as Sakura can essentially clone herself in order to be in two places at once. Usually this is done in situations where Sakura must distract Toya in order to capture or transform cards; unfortunately, Toya sees through the magic right away. However Toya keeps this a secret, instead interacting with Mirror as if it were an individual person. Through these interactions, Mirror develops a fondness for Toya, though never reaching a point of confessing her feelings (if they are that deep).
Mirror's visible form resembles a beautiful green-haired girl, draped in a long flowing hanfu holding a mirror in her hands. On some occasions, Mirror just appears as the mirror that she carries, useful for reflecting images and deflecting magical attacks.
The Shadow (影)
The Shadow (影) is a mysterious card able to manipulate shadows. It can gather shadows from people or things to increase its own power, but these shadows fade when they are exposed to bright light, leaving only Shadow itself behind. According to Cerberus, "Shadow can touch us, but we can't touch it."
In volume 2 of the manga, Shadow appears in a sweets shop where it tries to tip over shelves on the customers. After seeing that Syaoran Li's thunder wards are able to dissolve the shadows captured by Shadow, Sakura uses Thunder to the same effect and was able to capture it after pinning it with Sword. This is the first time that Syaoran and Sakura work together to capture a Clow Card.
Shadow looks like a cloaked figure in a black cloak and hood resembling the Grim Reaper.
The Shield (盾)
The Shield (盾) is Sakura's most-used defensive card, able to create a shell around its target that is impenetrable to almost all physical and magical attacks, including the effects of other Cards (i.e. Time). Shield has a protective personality and is first seen protecting a box containing keepsakes belonging to the Daidōji family, even to the point of keeping Tomoyo and Sonomi from opening the box at all. However, the Sword was able to penetrate through the Shield, thus enabling Sakura to capture Shield.
When guarding an object, Shield appears as a blue-white-green sphere or dome. For all other uses it is a single 'Clow Wing' shield with a red jewel on both sides. In its card form the Shield is chained by several chains for some unknown reason, like the Sword.
The Sword (剣)
The Sword (剣) is able to cut through almost anything, including magical barriers. The card gains its strength from the heart of the person who wields it and gives the wielder the skills of a master swordsman. However, Sword can also overwhelm and take control of the person holding it, especially if he or she is non-magical. Sword is so powerful that it is even capable of penetrating through the Shield, thus enabling Sakura to capture Shield. The Sword can even slash through the time and space continuum warps created by the Loop in Episode 21, thus allowing Sakura to seal Loop.
Although Sword has its own form, Sakura is only able to use it by binding its power to the sealing wand, turning it into a sword.
Curiously, Syaoran's Tsurugi Sword is able to deflect several blows from Sword with relative ease. Presumably, its magical nature protected it from damage.
The Sword has two forms: a sword-shaped brooch and a sword. In both forms it resembles a European rapier. Its hilt and hand-guard resemble Clow's wing emblem. In its card form the Sword is chained by several chains for some unknown reason, like the Shield. However it is one suggested theory that both are in chains due to them being the only cards to transform into actual weapons instead of calling upon an animated spirit. Unusually for a sword, Sword finishes in a diamond shaped tip, rather than a conventional tapered or chiseled tip.
The Thunder (雷)
The Thunder (雷) is able to summon a bolt of lightning, similar to Syaoran's often-used "Raitei Shourai" spell, and is one of Sakura's early offensive cards.
In its visible form, Thunder resembles a large wolf and is made out of crackling blue-white energy. Its appearance is similar to Japanese mythology, resembling a raiju or thunder creature.
The Watery (水)
The Watery (水) is one of the four elemental cards. It has a very temperamental personality and is able to control water and create whirlpools and tidal waves. Watery appears to be female, although her looks are somewhat boyish.
Watery first appears in school's swimming pool, where it tried to drown a number of students. Sakura manages to capture Watery by luring it into a walk-in freezer and locking it in until it froze.
Watery is able to absorb power from other water-based cards and is one of the two elemental cards directly linked to Yue (the other being the passive more gentle counterpart, The Windy).
Sakura uses Watery in an attempt to defeat Earthy, but Earthy does not seem to be affected by Watery's powers.
Watery resembles a blue mermaid with webbed fingers and large ears that appear to be a cross between webbed flippers and pointed elf's ears. It has no legs but instead rides on a column of water that resembles a tail. Watery can also dissolve itself into any body of water, becoming indistinguishable from its surroundings.
The Windy (風)
The Windy (風) is one of the four elemental cards. Being so, it is one of the most powerful Clow Cards. However, although it is powerful enough to create massive whirlwinds, it is explained that The Windy is probably the most gentle and non aggressive card. Instead of being used for attack, Sakura uses the Windy to "Bind," her enemies as she chants "Wind, become my binding chain!"
It is one of Sakura's most useful cards, as it helps her capture other Clow Cards by binding them in its winds. Windy is also the only Clow Card that Sakura does not have to capture. In the manga, the Windy was scattered along with the rest of the cards, yet because of its gentle nature, the Windy simply returned peacefully to the Clow Book. In the anime, Windy can be used by the other cards as a conduit to communicate with each other (in a sort of fortune telling). Windy is one of the two elemental cards directly linked to Yue (the other being the offensive/aggressive counterpart The Watery).
Windy is mostly yellow-coloured and looks like a woman with wings (like a Fairy) on her shoulders and coming out of her forehead.
The Wood (樹)
The Wood (樹) is a gentle spirit that is able to create trees, branches, and vines. Sakura often uses Wood to form cages with which to trap other Clow Cards. Although gentle in nature, Wood sometimes becomes "overexcited" when exposed to water cards, and it can even draw enough power from them to escape its card form even after capture.
Sakura, even after the use of many other cards, could not capture the Earthy, but, in accordance with the Chinese balance of five elements, wood is superior to earth, so Wood was able to overpower Earthy.
Although Wood can form herself into trees and branches, her natural form appears to be a small mossy green and yellow wood nymph about 8 inches high. She has long green leaf-like hair with vines and wears tiara made of leaves.
**All the information in this post has been taken from The Cardcaptor Sakura wiki (with a bit of editing) because they explain it far better than I ever could.
Only the 19 Cards from the manga are mentioned here because I'm playing manga-verse!Sakura.