A 4/4 creature attack
A 3/2 creature (with mana activated ability: pay 1, sacrifice the creature: dealt 2 damage to target creature) block the 4/4 creature. I pay the mana and I pretend to dealt damage to kill the 4/4 creature. But the controller of the 4/4 creature put a instant (deal 2 damage to target creature).
The controller of the 4/4 claimed that his 4/4 should survive because hi killed my 3/2 before I can activate my mana activated ability. I claim I kill the 4/4
If your 3/2's activated ability requires you to sacrifice it as part of the ability's cost, then no removal spell will be able to stop the activated ability because cost payment can't be responded to. Assuming you have some other way of dealing 2 more damage to the 4/4, it will die.
In the scenario as you have described it the 4/4 is going to live regardless.
If you wait until the combat damage step to activate the ability your creature will have been dealt 4 damage and will be dead long before you can activate the ability.
If you activate the ability in the declare blockers step you will deal 2 damage to the attacking creature before your opponent can cast his instant as the creature is sacrificed as part of the cost of paying the ability but then the creature is no longer around to deal combat damage.
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A 4/4 creature attack
A 3/2 creature (with mana activated ability: pay 1, sacrifice the creature: dealt 2 damage to target creature) block the 4/4 creature. I pay the mana and I pretend to dealt damage to kill the 4/4 creature. But the controller of the 4/4 creature put a instant (deal 2 damage to target creature).
The controller of the 4/4 claimed that his 4/4 should survive because hi killed my 3/2 before I can activate my mana activated ability. I claim I kill the 4/4
Who is right?
Neither of you.
If I understand you correctly, you're wrong because you're trying to both deal combat damage and damage from sacrifice ability in order to kill the 4/4. You can't do this because either your creature dealt combat damage (and died, because the 4/4 also got to do combat damage) or you got to sacrifice it for damage. (In which case it is also dead and didn't live long enough to make it to combat damage).
Your opponent though is wrong because once you decide to sacrifice your creature and deal two damage, your opponent can't play that instant. The creature they want to target and deal two damage to isn't on the battlefield. You can't play shock targeting a creature in the graveyard.
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A 3/2 creature (with mana activated ability: pay 1, sacrifice the creature: dealt 2 damage to target creature) block the 4/4 creature. I pay the mana and I pretend to dealt damage to kill the 4/4 creature. But the controller of the 4/4 creature put a instant (deal 2 damage to target creature).
The controller of the 4/4 claimed that his 4/4 should survive because hi killed my 3/2 before I can activate my mana activated ability. I claim I kill the 4/4
Who is right?
If you wait until the combat damage step to activate the ability your creature will have been dealt 4 damage and will be dead long before you can activate the ability.
If you activate the ability in the declare blockers step you will deal 2 damage to the attacking creature before your opponent can cast his instant as the creature is sacrificed as part of the cost of paying the ability but then the creature is no longer around to deal combat damage.
- H.L Mencken
I Became insane with long Intervals of horrible Sanity
All Religion, my friend is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.
- Edgar Allan Poe
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If I understand you correctly, you're wrong because you're trying to both deal combat damage and damage from sacrifice ability in order to kill the 4/4. You can't do this because either your creature dealt combat damage (and died, because the 4/4 also got to do combat damage) or you got to sacrifice it for damage. (In which case it is also dead and didn't live long enough to make it to combat damage).
Your opponent though is wrong because once you decide to sacrifice your creature and deal two damage, your opponent can't play that instant. The creature they want to target and deal two damage to isn't on the battlefield. You can't play shock targeting a creature in the graveyard.