Venerated Rotpriest

Creature — Phyrexian Druid

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)

Whenever a creature you control becomes the target of a spell, target opponent gets a poison counter.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (26)

Cloudy2024 on The Phyrexian Purification - Welcome to Perfection

1 week ago

Scale Up and defiantly Venerated Rotpriest are game changers!

BotaNickill on Touch O Fynn

2 months ago

Balaam__, thanks for checking out the deklist and for the upvote! I have been trying to get this deck to win more consistently, but its tough out there! I miss my Venerated Rotpriests. Can you think of any cards that may help ? I think I need more Unstoppable Slashers that guy is a real menace.

Andramalech on Mono-green Toxic

5 months ago

Venerated Rotpriest, Bloated Contaminator, and a number of pump spells like Scale Up, Might of Old Krosa, and Royal Treatment for protection.

Icbrgr on Ye Ol Standard Rottness

5 months ago

Venerated Rotpriest always scares me whenever I see it! I know Sheltered by Ghosts is just an overall great card but putting it on the priest just seems mean lol +1 I hope your games went/go well!

Venum on Poison Counters go Brrrrr

6 months ago

I really like Fynn because you have a lot of cheap options to make that deck really strong.

• Viridian Longbow help you target a player without having to attack and then you can proliferate with Contagion Clasp afterward to pump the poison counter every turn.

• Ohran Frostfang + Toski, Bearer of Secrets for extra draw

• kill other creatures with some Fights mechanic such as Bite Down , Infectious Bite or Smell Fear

• As for creature, i really like some Toxic that help your other creature and poison counter up Bloated Contaminator, Contaminant Grafter, Phyrexian Swarmlord and Venerated Rotpriest

Sliverguy420 on Oh Rotty!

8 months ago

Green Sun's Zenith would be an upgrade over March of Burgeoning Life. it'd cost less mana to grab the Venerated Rotpriest and doesn't require that you already control one. it can also grab Dryad Arbor if you want to ramp a bit. adding blue lets you use Phantasmal Image to copy the rotpriest, and you can use Artful Dodge to ensure you can land damage for toxic. the flashback also means an additional rotpriest trigger.

leovolt884_ on Rotpriest Infection

1 year ago

Definitely Does not need as many pump spells. Keep the Vines of Vastwood for protection and maybe a Snakeskin Veil or two if you want to argue for that. Heroic Intervention is a good alternative as always but doesn't have pump capabilities. I think it would be decent as mass removal is pretty common especially with -x/-x to all creatures being a common effect on black cards and your deck is very susceptible to that kind of removal. Most mass removal doesn't target so you wont even get Venerated Rotpriest triggers so some board wide protection seems necessary. Might of the Masses seems like a good cut because only 16 creatures with very limited card draw won't end up pumping more than other spells too often. Groundswell and Might of Old Krosa seem pretty redundant so picking one or the other would be best.

Depending on how you feel about splashing, maybe consider red for something like Rhythm of the Wild for protection and better aggro. Something to provide trample can be found here as well. Temur Battle Rage is an okay option and can be deadly but requires an additional pump spell to be at full potential. Can't think of any other cards like it off the top of my head but they definitely exist. If staying in two colors, consider 3-4 Vexing Shusher to simulate Rhythm and serve as removal bait in which case Triumph of the Hordes can maybe be justified as a boardwide buff and trample enabler, also giving shusher infect. In terms of creatures, running a few more may perform well, possibly a few copies of Flensermite and I would highly recommend Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon to close out games if you can't take them early. It would be a good idea to at least sideboard it against control or burn. Some of your current sideboard cards should be run mainboard like Dismember, a Force of Despair, and some Thoughtseize to disable your opponent.

I understand running Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth especially with the Inkmoth Nexus but it feels a bit pricey and could be replaced with an Overgrown Tomb since your mana ratio is already pretty good. A few lands may also be cut, considering 1.4 average cmc is very low and with limited card draw you really don't want to get mana flooded.

The deck feels almost like a "one trick" kind of deal and would be pretty easy to work around. You have to play really well to force your opponent into numerous combat tricks so maybe take it easier on yourself by running more removal and card draw. Dumping your hand then drawing 1 to 2 combat tricks per turn may not work against control decks or even aggro decks that can afford to chump block. Unearth is a good idea, consider running 1 less in favor of a mass recursion effect or something that lets you access multiple cards from the graveyard later in the game when you've run out of resources.

wallisface on Shadow Clone Jutsu

1 year ago

Some thoughts:

• the deck doesn’t look like it will function at-all without a Venerated Rotpriest, which is a problem as you have no reliable way to draw it. Added to this, if the opponent knows this piece is required for you to play the game, all their removal will be directed at it - imo your deck needs to be able to do something when this card isn’t in play.

• Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief doesn’t appear to do anything here; i don’t see any spells here you’d particularly care about being copied onto this card.

• Phantasmal Image does almost nothing at all for you - i’m not sure what it’s doing here??