Brewed this up because of the interaction between 4 Venerated Rotpriest and 4 Bounty of the Hunt.
If you have 2 rot priest and 1 other creature in play, that’s 6 poison all on it’s own, without using the combat step, and can’t be disrupted all that easily. Having a real closing plan that doesn’t involve combat is a game changer for infect. Rot priest is a house, it can punish people for interacting, and it can punish them for not interacting.

This could be adopted in UG infect, and it probably should be in some way, but i want to explore something new and different.

Is this a glass cannon? sure,
Should it have some disruption? maybe,
Does this have a hope in the current meta? probably not.
Doesn’t mean it can’t be a lot of fun.
This is where i’m starting from.
Still really really fast, but more resilient in some ways, and has avenue’s to win a mid game.

4 Glistener Elf
4 Venerated Rotpriest
4 Ignoble Hierarch
3 Elvish Spirit Guide
1 Bloated Contaminator
1 Cankerbloom
1 Dryad Arbor

4 Green Sun’s Zenith
4 Invigorate
4 Bounty of the Hunt
3 Season of Growth
2 Snakeskin Veil
2 Vines of Vastwood
1 Scale Up
3 Berserk
3 Once upon a time

4 Inkmoth Nexus
1 Pendelhaven
1 Boseiju, who endures
6 Forest
3 Misty Rainforest

SB Options:
Torpor Orb
Veil of Summer
Viridian corrupter
Seeds of innocence
Faerie Macabre
Dismember
Cursed Totem
Postmortem Lunge

Weirdly enough you can win with normal damage without too much difficulty some times, which is certainly strange.

Some card choices:
Season of Growth can be super powerful in here, giving you some card advantage for games that go a bit longer, while also being great when you are trying to go off.


Snakeskin Veil. A lot of the time you need your protection spells on your opponents turns, as that’s the smart time to be interacting from their side of things. This is the only protection spell that leaves some power behind. These might turn into Vines, but i haven’t kicked many vines, so i think the opposite might be true, but some sort of mix is where i'm starting.


Cankerbloom is a fantastic GSZ target, a disenchant that can proliferate? perfect.


Bloated Contaminator is a high end win con but not really sure if it’s wanted or necessary, i think going for rot priests with a GSZ will guarantee some poison counters more than this guy, but I want to try out the new cards, so i'm giving him a chance. He’s certainly not unreasonable coming down on turn 2 from your hand. It’s possible you want it in your opening hand more than as a tutor target, if so you'd want more, i'm doubtful that's the case here though. Viridian corrupter might claim this spot or the 4th Once Upon a Time.


All the rest of the cards should be pretty self explanatory.


Happy to hear any feedback.