Hypnotoxic Laser (Plasma Storm 123)

Trainer Item

Hypnotoxic Laser どくさいみん光線 Poison Hypnotic Beam

Illus. 5ban Graphics English expansion Plasma Storm Rarity English card no. 123/135 Japanese expansion Plasma Gale Japanese Rarity Japanese card no. 063/070 Japanese Half Deck Team Plasma's Powered Half Deck Japanese card no. 013/017 Japanese Deck Kit Team Plasma Battle Gift Set Japanese card no. 010/016 Japanese expansion BW-P Promotional cards Japanese card no. 175/BW-P

Hypnotoxic Laser (Japanese: どくさいみん光線 Poison Hypnotic Beam) is an Item card. It is part of the Plasma Storm expansion.

Card text

All prints

You can't have more than 1 ACE SPEC card in your deck.

Team Plasma

Team Plasma

You can't have more than 1 ACE SPEC card in your deck.

FLARE

You can't have more than 1 card with the same name in your deck. If a card would go to the discard pile, put it in the Lost Zone instead.

TAG TEAM

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VSTAR Power

Your opponent's Active Pokémon is now Poisoned. Flip a coin. If heads, your opponent's Active Pokémon is also Asleep.

Do Nothing   At the beginning of your turn, flip a coin. If heads, you can do nothing during your turn. If tails, your opponent can do nothing during his or her next turn.

Do Nothing   At the beginning of your turn, flip a coin. If heads, you can do nothing during your turn. If tails, your opponent can do nothing during his or her next turn.

Do Nothing   At the beginning of your turn, flip a coin. If heads, you can do nothing during your turn. If tails, your opponent can do nothing during his or her next turn.

You may play as many Item cards as you like during your turn (before your attack).

Release information

This card was first released in the Plasma Storm expansion, originating from the Japanese Plasma Gale expansion. It was also released in the Japanese Team Plasma's Powered Half Deck and Team Plasma Battle Gift Set. Later in Japan, it was reprinted as one of the BW-P Promotional cards and was available as part of a ten card random pack released during the February 2013 Gym Challenge.

Trivia

This card was banned from use at the 2013 North American Professor Cup, thus making it the first specific card to be banned from any official event since Wormadam from POP Series 7 was removed from the 2008 North American Professor Cup. The card along with Whirlipede was dominant at the 2013 European Professor Cup.

Origin

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