Ovinize

The blue color-pie translation of a white pacifier like Humble: where white answers a creature by neutering its threat, blue does the same work as a temporary rewrite of the creature's identity. Setting base power and toughness to 0/1 and erasing abilities is one clause doing two jobs, and that double duty is where the card earns its keep. It blanks a combatant for the turn, but it also turns off the keywords that complicate combat math: trample, deathtouch, indestructible, the evasion the creature was leaning on. Because it sets base stats rather than dealing damage, it sidesteps the usual ways a creature protects itself, and because it strips abilities, it answers the kind of creature that is a problem for what it generates rather than how big it is. Note the limit on that ability-stripping, though: it removes the regeneration ability, but it cannot undo a regeneration shield already on the battlefield, since that shield is a standing replacement effect, not an ability the creature still carries. The 0/1 floor matters too. The creature survives as a 0/1, so this is a tempo play and a combat fog more than removal, and any subsequent pump or anthem rebuilds from that base. It is the rare instant that can blow out an attack and disarm a key piece of machinery in the same beat, at instant speed and for a price that fits inside a counterspell-light tempo hand.