In post 1970, Thestatusquo wrote:One of the things thats very important to playing magic well is the question "why is my opponent doing this?" which leads you to think about what cards might be in his hand and which of them you can successfully play around. In this case, depending on the deck, and the game situation, there is not a lot of reason for your opponent to attack (unless the life gain was super relevant) except to bait you into blocking, and there are tons of things that absolutely blow you out for doing so. If you had thought through this line of play it leads you to thinking about what bloodrush he could have, what burn he could have, izzet staticaster, etc, which would make me personally think that single blocking is probably not an option here. Taking it and double or triple blocking were probably your best options.
He had previously swung at me and I blocked, and he was like "ok pass turn" and I like I said I had protection from burn already, he didn't have green in his deck so no blood rush. I just didn't think of staticasters and got tarped like a baddie.
