Abrade's 3 damage cleanly kills Skyclave Apparition, The Queen of Dale, or Sanctum Lurker, and its artifact mode can destroy The Ooze before it starts exiling graveyard cards and building Mutagen tokens. Octopus Form protects a key creature like Vivi Ornitier from their targeted removal (Get Lost, or Fatal Push with revolt) by granting hexproof at instant speed. Vanishing Verse can't target multicolored Vivi at all, but it can hit monocolored creatures like Quantum Riddler, so Octopus Form covers those too. This Town Ain't Big Enough is a weak answer to their enchantments and planeswalkers since it only bounces rather than removes permanently, letting them simply recast. Keep pressure on with your proactive spells while using removal efficiently against their many two-for-one creatures.