Risk Factor
- Mana cost
- {2}{R}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Guilds of Ravnica Promos #113s (rare)
Target opponent may have Risk Factor deal 4 damage to them. If that player doesn't, you draw three cards.
Jump-start (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs. Then exile this card.)
Risk Factor has 3 printings, first in Guilds of Ravnica (2018). EDHREC ranks it #8,641 among Commander cards. It appears most in Solphim, Mayhem Dominus decks (2,372 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Risk Factor most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Solphim, Mayhem Dominus: 2,372 decks
- Torbran, Thane of Red Fell: 1,193 decks
- Obosh, the Preypiercer: 1,045 decks
- The Lord of Pain: 375 decks
- Neheb, the Eternal: 334 decks
- Tor Wauki the Younger: 320 decks
- Firesong and Sunspeaker: 300 decks
- Zo-Zu the Punisher: 158 decks
Often played with Risk Factor
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If an effect allows you to pay an alternative cost rather than a spell's mana cost, you may pay that alternative cost when you jump-start a spell. You'll still discard a card as an additional cost to cast it.
- : You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions when casting a spell with jump-start, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using jump-start only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
- : A spell cast using jump-start will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, it's countered, or it leaves the stack in some other way.
- : If the target player is an illegal target by the time Risk Factor tries to resolve, the spell doesn't resolve. You don't draw three cards.
- : If a card with jump-start is put into your graveyard during your turn, you'll be able to cast it right away if it's legal to do so, before an opponent can take any actions.