Running 11% lands, do you ever notice that the packs get diluted with lands sometimes?
Just out of curiosity, because that's what I think would be another aesthetically annoying possibility.
Still plenty of playables, and my playgroup has started to realize that P3P1 Watery Grave is better than like 90% of possible on-color spells for their Dimir deck, so it works fairly well (this also limits the capability of the 4-5C decks considerably).
The thing I hate the most by FAR in normal booster drafts is having to play (some formats) with 17 basics.
You just completely waste your time with maybe 20-25% percent of games that are completely noncompetitive, with no meaningful decision points, because one player draws too many lands, too few lands, or the wrong color of lands.
Keeping fixing at ~10% of cube size helps that a TON and I would never want to go significantly under.
I do have more 4-5C "pile" decks than most, and more than I would want, but they're far from dominant and something I'm totally willing to put up with so 2-3 color decks can actually have their own decent manabases.
I haven't played a cube with bouncelands in forever but recall always wanting a half-on-color one when I played the era of Modern Masters which included them. Unless I was, like, 14-land Affinity.
Still plenty of playables, and my playgroup has started to realize that P3P1 Watery Grave is better than like 90% of possible on-color spells for their Dimir deck, so it works fairly well (this also limits the capability of the 4-5C decks considerably).
You just completely waste your time with maybe 20-25% percent of games that are completely noncompetitive, with no meaningful decision points, because one player draws too many lands, too few lands, or the wrong color of lands.
Keeping fixing at ~10% of cube size helps that a TON and I would never want to go significantly under.
I do have more 4-5C "pile" decks than most, and more than I would want, but they're far from dominant and something I'm totally willing to put up with so 2-3 color decks can actually have their own decent manabases.