MTG Salvation

A number of surprising things:
12 fetchlands, 3 Treetop Village, no Horizon Canopy
2 Kalonian Tusker mainboard, but no removal
No Gaddock Teeg in the sideboard, no Dromoka's Command in either
3 Melira, Sylvok Outcast in the sideboard, must've been expecting Infect.

..anyway, have people tested Pelt Collector yet? What are your opinions/experiences with it, compared to Experiment One?

I don't understand what you're doing. Have you tested your deck? What is your meta like?

kysg, can you explain some of the more unusual card choices you've made? I'm thinking about 1x Selesnya Charm but no Dromoka's Command, no Aspect of Hydra, a playset of Thorn Lieutenant, no Dryad Militant, mainboard Creeping Corrosion, no mainboard Scavenging Ooze.

I haven't tested him yet, but this is what I think:
Experiment One has a pretty relevant ability that makes him harder to kill, which is a big plus. It is also not that hard to give him 2 counters most of the time.

Pelt Collector can get natural trample, which is still good, but not as good as regeneration. However, the fact that creatures dying gives him counters makes him less of an awful topdeck than Experiment One is. If you already have one or two creatures on the board, Pelt Collector can still be threatening where Experiment is one of the worst cards to draw.
This is obviously not tested, and this also depends on the matchup.

Other thoughts: Rancor, Dungrove Elder, Groundbreaker and Scavenging Ooze get slightly better, since it makes the dying-power trigger more easy to happen (although Dungrove is hard to kill).

Narnam Renegade gets slightly worse, because of the power-only trigger. Other than that, we don't really play other creatures with a higher toughness (except for some singleton Leatherback Baloth that some people include).

Experiment One can dodge some removal, but is equal to Pelt Collector when it comes to Path to Exile and Terminus, the latter of which has become more relevant recently.

21 lands should be the right number.
Most people agreed that 2 Treetop Village is the right number, and I personally really like 2 Horizon Canopy. If that is too expensive for you, you can substitute them for Hashep Oasis.
Jeff Hoogland has tried a build with 4 Canopies, and that was clearly too many. Even though the consistent card draw is nice, having 2 Canopies in your opening hand hurts us way too much to justify it.

I also agree with replacing E1 instead of playing both alongside each other. We really only need one creature that comes in as a 1/1 and gets bigger through every other creature.
Playing 6 of them might be too much, but I don't know for sure. E1 is a horrible topdeck, so having 2-4 more cards you don't really want to draw isn't something I'd do.
I am reluctant to drop Narnam Renegade though, he is simply way too strong in a 8-fetch build. I'd sacrifice their synergy to add synergy with basically every other creature we play
I will probably run the same amounts as amicdeep, maybe 4 Militants if I don't switch one for a singleton Hooting Mandrills.

Yo Pelt Collector looks insane!
No regeneration is pretty sad, but being able to grow faster and give itself trample makes me think it's better than Experiment One.

There's a small mistake in your card description: the Harpooner itself gets the +X/+0, not the opponent's flyer.

I'm afraid it's too slow, 5 mana and it doesn't do anything upon casting it. I really love this card, and I want this to be good, but I don't think it's for us.

Splashing white definitely has a number of advantages, with the only real disadvantage being the cost of buying the cards needed.
The extra life loss is kind of negated by replacing Dismember with Path to Exile and Dromoka's Command.
I wrote a bit about it in the primer, also describing good and bad card choices.

It looks like a really strong card, although I don't know if it's good enough to mainboard. Gains life, destroys something important or just beats, never a dead card.

First of all, welcome!
Wolfbitten Captive is not really good enough for our deck. It doesn't evolve Experiment One, and it needs mana to be a threat, something we don't have a lot of. 1-drops that come into play with 2 power are almost always better.

That info on the matchup is incredible, and really detailed! Is there any way in which we can put that in the primer, so people can find it more easily? It's useful for everyone who visits this thread!

A version close to that? What did you change?
And I'd love to hear more about the matchups, experiences and sideboarding!
Can you also tell us your opinion on some of the unusual card choices you've made? E.g. the singletons Blossoming Defense, Dissenter's Deliverance, Leatherback Baloth, Prey Upon.