Having realised I do in fact enjoy playing the deck, I decided to pick up a second Badlands (purchased right here, from Three for One!) so I could build the Black-Red version of the deck, which I believe is just strictly better (being able to flashback Faithless Looting is too important)
Having Flash on this makes it very similar to Stunt Double
Personally, I suspect that WotC is over it after a year of ineffectively trying to ban around the problem
(2022-10-14) In the Commander variant, a meld card's color identity is determined only by the mana costs and mana symbols in the rules text of its front face
Wandering Archaic I had a friend swear by Wandering Archaic
Really across the board of land selection, it matters not when or where the landscape was painted, or whether created traditionally, digitally or a bit of both, they just work in this frame twenty years their senior