Originally Neo-Academy also had to rely on Capsize and a couple other cards. I'm not going to look up the original lists but back in the day to get things going you needed about 7 cards. At any rate what makes you think this is better than a deck like TPS?
I have no clue whether Neo Academy can be better or even as good as TPS, I haven't extensively tested either to come to a conclusion. Do you have any suggestions on how to make this deck better in certain areas where TPS is lacking?
The deck is just to reliant on Tolarian Academy. What if it gets wasted/stripped (which is going to be even more likely than it was before because of the unrestriction Crop Rotation)? A neo-academy deck is a deck that is reliant upon having 1 restricted card out for the whole game. I just don't think basing an entire deck around 1 restricted mana excellerant viable anymore. You have no recursion to get it back outside of playing yawg will and even then you don't have enough additional mana excellerants to power out those mostly expensive spells you've got there like Tendrils or Mind's Desire. Also Candelabra is dated and without academy out there it's a dead card it was originally used to generate infinite mana from academy alongside cards like capsize and at least 7 other artifacts to create an infinite mana loop to power out something like stroke of genius or braingeyser and even then it wasn't played as a 4-of all the time . TPS and Long lists usually run academy too but it's not as central to the deck, it's just another mana excellerent, albeit a great one, out of many. Also your deck lacks the amount of disruption that TPS runs and lacks the consistency of both TPS and Long. I just don't see this as viable compared to TPS and Long and those decks aren't even doing that well right now in the Tezz meta (and even with the loss of TfK those decks still will probably remain on the top of the heap for awhile as they have plenty of other draw engines to maintain consistency and vault/key is just the best win condition out there).
