My opponent's active Pokémon is poisoned and asleep (this poison and asleep was put into place by normal means, not some more powerful poison or sleep effect). Am I allowed to play Hypnotoxic Laser?
Pretty funny how this has never come up for me while playing until a few days ago, but I've always thought you could play it since technically the new laser is applying a "new" poison and potentially a "new" sleep. Similar to how, for example, you can take over normal poison with something like Toxicroak EX's poison effect. I was told a few days ago by a well-known player that I'm completely wrong since you are playing a card for no effect, but I wanted to make sure.
Pretty funny how this has never come up for me while playing until a few days ago, but I've always thought you could play it since technically the new laser is applying a "new" poison and potentially a "new" sleep. Similar to how, for example, you can take over normal poison with something like Toxicroak EX's poison effect. I was told a few days ago by a well-known player that I'm completely wrong since you are playing a card for no effect, but I wanted to make sure.