Neobrand Combo Performance Decline

Neobrand is a combo deck in Modern that's showing moderate performance with some concerning recent trends:

Current Performance

• Overall winrate: 53.4% across 282 tournament entries
• Meta presence: Low but consistent (~2-4% presence)
• Recent activity: 31 tournaments over the past period

Key Strategy

The deck revolves around using Neoform and Eldritch Evolution to chain creature upgrades, typically:

• Allosaurus Rider (4 copies) as the enabler
• Summoner's Pact (4 copies) for consistency
• Griselbrand as the key payoff
• Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant (2.6 avg copies) as another threat
• Disciple of Freyalise providing additional combo pieces

Recent Trends (Last 8 Weeks)

Concerning decline: The deck showed strong performance in late August (60% winrate, 2.65% presence) but has dropped significantly in September:

• Week of Sept 1-7: 47.4% winrate, 1.52% presence
• Week of Sept 8-14: 0% winrate (0-2 record, very small sample)

The deck appears to be struggling in the current meta, possibly due to increased interaction or unfavorable matchups becoming more popular.

Sources

Data from 35 tournaments: 82.9% MTGO, 17.1% Melee. Recent tournament examples:

• Modern Challenge 32 (Sept 8)
• Modern Challenge 64 (Sept 6)
• Modern Challenge 32 (Sept 6)