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The entire premise of this thread seems entirely wrong-headed - the OP wants a play mode that prevents people from playing the decks that they want to play, because he wants to play against a more diverse line-up of opponents.
Nothing currently prevents the OP from playing off-meta decks himself - indeed, any half-decent player can already pilot any half-decent home-brew successfully. This is particularly true in Wild - DaneHS, Day[9], and Kripp have all had a great deal of success piloting crazy home-brews in the older format. Conveniently, a number of sites track Wild - looking at the numbers from VS and HSReplays, the format currently features 22 different decks with play-rates above 2%. During Un'Goro, that number once peaked at 26. The most commonly played deck for four of nine classes in Wild is "Other." Of course, there are Tier One decks - Paladin currently features three different flavours at the top of the tier lists, and Warlock and Priest are also quite prevalent. But you'll also see the sorts of decks I mentioned in an earlier post - FWIW, I mostly pilot Reno Hunter, Reno Rogue and Curator Paladin to rank 5 each month, and the format is filled with similar sorts of decks being piloted by my opponents, including all the way to Legend. This was one of the aspects of laddering in Wild which captured Kripp's interest this month.
Conversely, in a competitive game, there simply isn't much need to cater to players who aren't half-decent, or who can't throw together a decent home-brew. They just lose. If they want to play with crazy decks, or against crazy decks, HS already has a "Challenge" mode which caters specifically to that interest.
However, none of this seems to matter to the OP. He isn't simply wishing that he could pilot home-brews successfully. Instead, he wants to prevent everyone else from playing anything but their own home-brew - except, they won't actually have free reign to play any crazy home-brew they want. The OP wants to prevent players from piloting a deck like Reno Pirate Mech Priest, because the OP wants to ban Kazakus and Raza and Ship's Cannon. Folks won't be able to play a deck like Big Rogue, because the OP wants to ban Carnivorous Cube. You get the idea - crazy off-meta decks regularly use lots of "good" cards, but attempt to exploit the potential design space of those cards in unusual ways. I find it to be the most interesting and alluring aspect of deck-building and playing.
Looking at the numbers, Wild currently enjoys a play-rate about one-eighth that of Standard. I'm not exactly convinced that the OP's proposed Play Mode - forcing players to build uninteresting home-brews, while changing the deck-building rules every time a card becomes "too popular" - would develop a sustainable player-base. Among other things, players will simply be priced out of the format - do they dust Raza and Patches when they are banned, in order to gain the dust they need to craft all the expensive cards they don't have, but which would be required in the OP's new format? And what happens when the OP decides to ban those cards? I just spent 800 dust on a pair of epics that don't see play in Standard, and now they've been banned in the "Perpetual Waterfall" Play Mode as well. It doesn't exactly require precognition to guess what the community reaction to any of this might be.