Or Mortal Combat, the most directly-analogous card to this one?
I mean, in my Iname as One deck, I could cast Iname, Death Aspect and immediately dump 20 spirits in my graveyard to win with Mortal Combat. And I've done it before, too. But nobody is clamoring to ban Mortal Combat.
What you might have heard before is that making a spell's target illegal makes the spell "fizzle". The rule is that all of a spell's targets must be illegal in order for it to fizzle (do nothing). For example, if your opponent cast Cryptic Command choosing the modes "Return target permanent to its owner’s hand." (targeting your 5/5 creature) and "Draw a card.", then if you sacrificed your creature all of the targets would be illegal and your opponent would not draw.
In the case of Fiery Justice, the spell is targeting you as well as your 5/5. Because it still has a legal target (you), it does as much as it can.
I still find it so funny that people went and made Mishra, Artificer Prodigy work using Possibility Storm. It's a 1-card combo with your Commander that gets you value, but throw in a Nether Void and suddenly everything sucks.
While definitely strong and I wouldn't be surprised to see a cEDH build for him, I think he requires too many parts to go infinite to be worth banning.
Shimmer of Possibility - I love the art, especially combined with the cards name. The people in the rain dissapearing and appearing somewhere else. But I can't play it in commander .(
Why you say you can't play it in commander? You can totally play that card in EDH, what am I missing?
Maybe they mean it's not good enough? 2 mana sorcery cantrip (admittedly one that digs 4 cards deep) is going to be low on the totem pole compared to other options in the format.
I can't even count the number of times I or someone else at the table has accidentally thought this was an Elf.
There's even a Meren player in my meta that constantly tries to act like it has undying from Mikaeus, the Unhallowed until somebody reminds him that she's Human.
I mean, in my Iname as One deck, I could cast Iname, Death Aspect and immediately dump 20 spirits in my graveyard to win with Mortal Combat. And I've done it before, too. But nobody is clamoring to ban Mortal Combat.
In the case of Fiery Justice, the spell is targeting you as well as your 5/5. Because it still has a legal target (you), it does as much as it can.
There's even a Meren player in my meta that constantly tries to act like it has undying from Mikaeus, the Unhallowed until somebody reminds him that she's Human.