Quote Originally Posted by IamHANDSOME View Post
I dont see how Risk Factor is going to do anything. I mean first of all it costs 3 mana, thats a lot for Legacy. If my opponent is on 4 life you will get to draw 3 cards but how good is drawing 3 cards for 3 mana? With this logic every Grixis list should play Painful Truths and this is not the case. If my opponent is on lets say 12 life he is probably willing to take 4 damage, if you want to flashback it costs 3 mana again + discarding a card which is creating card disadvantage. I think combo would be willing to take damage all the time and you are tapped out (!) which is very bad. Even playing it End of Turn would be a Time Walk against yourself if you need to respond to a single spell with a Brainstorm before and not to get to play Risk Factor, that would mean itll rot on your hand forever.

I think in Burn the card is actually legit because there is no card manipulation and Burn makes sure your opponent IS actually all the time on 4-5 life so either Browbeat or Risk Factor will add something to your deck. But in a deck with Brainstorm and Force of Will the card just looks very very bad.
Those were my first thoughts too. But hey that means those MTGO lists managed to go 5-0 DESPITE running Risk Factor so the deck must be really good again