A question on the ethics of threats and following through
So, last night my pod is down to the last three at the table, Shen, Kat and me. It is Shen's turn and he can kill both of us, I have no creatures and while Kat has a few, she doesn't have enough blockers to survive if he swings. Shen controls an [[Archon of Cruelty]] and I am on one life, so we are both very dead.
While we're talking about what we can do, I mention have a response in hand. Shen asks what it is, I say I can save one person, so he can't win this round and he should hit Kat with the Archron trigger and attack me to force me to use it to stay alive. After I say this, he swings everything at Kat, targets me with the Archon trigger and says that I'm more than welcome to try and stop him.
So before the trigger resolves I flash in a [[Windshaper Planetar]] and change all his creatures to attack me. The Archon resolves, I die before damage is dealt and he's left tapped out and with none of the lifelink or damage triggers he was expecting. Kat takes her turn, makes some absolutely absurd amount of squirrels and two turns later she manages to win.
After the game, Shen gets a bit mad and says that what I did was 100% kingmaking and he would have won if I didn't do it. He won the other two games we played, so he dropped it but I kinda feel justified and I'm not sure if that makes me a terrible person?
Like, he didn't have lethal on both of us, he had lethal on one of us but he got to pick which one it was and I wanted it to be Kat? And I told him this before he attacked and he hit me anyway. I feel like, at that point I just have to do the thing I told you I would do?
I asked Kat and the two players who were eliminated earlier, Kat thought it was funny, one of the guys thought I was right but the other said I shouldn't have warned Shen, I should have just done it, which seems worse?
Anyway, curious to hear y'all's thoughts.