User blog comment:Xeamnz/Ninjas from the beyond!/@comment-4292163-20140405200606/@comment-6218208-20140406044920

Time to insert my opinion with what limited testing I could do with the cards that I obtained from boxes and a few trades.

I find Clear Serenity actually works very well in Skull Warriors since, as Emmic mentioned, Return usually ends up eating most of your gauge. Since Return is already an advantage engine in and of itself, I really don't think the loss in cards is as bad as Emmic is making it out to be.

Also, I find items to be quite...cumbersome most of the time. My center is usually clogged with Yamigitsune (in the times I'm able to get my one copy using Hades Fall + Return) or any of my size 1 vanillas, so I rarely ever have an open center at the end of my turn.

As for Karakurenai...as nice as it is, because of reasons I mentioned above (Return eating most of your gauge and center being clogged a lot), I rarely ever use it at all so I'm actually debating on cutting it from the deck altogether so I can make room for other stuff.