

I'm Cardcaptor Sakura it is known that Clow Reed created the Clow Cards and
then set up an entire infrastructure to seal them until until Sakura could get
to them because they were so powerful. It's been a while since I've read the
manga or seen the show, and I'm wondering: why did he create the cards in the
first place, particularly if they were going to be so much trouble to deal
with after the fact.


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Why did Clow Reed create the Clow Cards?


I don't know the exact reason why Clow Reed created the Clow Cards. however i
belive that they weren't created solely for the purpose to give to Sakura.

Cardcaptor Sakura is apart of a greater Multiverse in which other CLAMP Titles
such as _Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE_ and _xxxHolic_ are set in. in that
multiverse Clow Reed is known as the greatest magician of all time and one of
his abilities is Prophetic Dreams

> Clow possesses the powers of a Dream Seer, allowing him to see into the
> future. However, unlike most other characters, who could only see fragments
> of the future, Fei Wang stated that Clow can see everything, which gave him
> free reign to control events, hence how he had managed to foresee Sakura
> collecting the Clow Cards, making him create a Sealing Wand of the color
> pink for Sakura being a girl. He even knew that he would, as Eriol, cause
> problems for her to help her create Sakura Cards.

Source: [Clow Reed - Powers & Abilites - Prophetic
Dreams](http://clamp.wikia.com/wiki/Clow_Reed#Powers_.26_Abilites)

ofcause if he foresaw Sakura sealing the cards and made the Sealing Wand
specifically for her why did he let all that happen in the first place? the
reason was that when he neared his death he had chosen Sakura (who had yet to
even been born) to succeed him and most of it was by design.

> When Clow was nearing death, he chose Sakura Kinomoto to be the new mistress
> of The Clow. Sakura was not yet born at the time, but Clow's magical ability
> allowed him to foresee most of the future and plan many of the situations
> that would enable Sakura to succeed in taking full possession of the Clow
> Cards. The reason why Sakura's wand is pink is that he wanted to make a
> suitable wand for the young girl who would be mistress. It wasn't because of
> chance that Keroberos chose Sakura.

Source: [Clow Reed - Background (1st
Paragraph)](http://clamp.wikia.com/wiki/Clow_Reed#Background)

as such the seal on the Clow Cards, while it did lock away the powerful magic
that was the Clow Cards, it was only until it was Sakura's time to claim them
and thus the reason why the book was in Sakura's home and not in Li's who is a
blood decedent of Clow Reed.

The reason why i say that the Clow Cards weren't created just to give to
Sakura is that in the first Cardcaptor Sakura movie Su Yung/The Madoushi, a
former apprentice and lover of Clow Reed, was sealed inside the Book of Clow
until Sakura unintentionally released her. while it is possible the Cards were
created long after the Book of Clow considering the book's magical independent
uselessness after the cards were released i would think that both the book and
cards were created at the same time.


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