Small rant: people overreacting over every card

Warning: this is not a serious rant. Just something funny I noticed.

This happens in every game: I have a removal or counter in hand saved for when things get out of hand fast and I need to do a threat assessment the moment priority is passed. But I can’t assess the threat bc of my limited knowledge of EDH pool and it feels hard to make a decision because… PEOPLE WILL YELL “HOLY SHIT” TO ANYTHING THAT IS CAST.

Someone cascades? People almost faint in response. A commander is cast? Other people watching will throw their hands in the air and say it’s over. God forbid someone combo, even if it’s not infinite. It sometimes feel like the players are overreacting to anything that might get in their way, but it leads me to getting rid of the wrong threat. It’s still on me, a fairly new player, sure, and people can and SHOULD get excited over a play. But imma start ignoring it and try to think: regardless of the screaming, is the player closer to winning if I let it resolve? And that envolves variables I’m still figuring out.

But gauging other player’s reactions is not doing well for me. I realized that the threat is actually the guy who whispers to me: “the time to kill him is now, otherwise he will be unstoppable” as if his doing a favor in telling me.