Featured Trader: Plato

** First Name:

Joey

**What keeps you in the game:

Pretty much the many different decks that I am able to make and the fact that I get to trade for the cards for my new deck. I've really only played 2 decks more than 6 monthes. Heck, even trading is a game in and of itself. The better you are the more cards you get.

**Are you a collector, trade for deck needs, or trade for cards that you just want. Explain:

I was a collector for a while and was so stoked when I got my playset of playsets of PSZ. Mostly though I'm just going to deck needs.

**What helped you decide to join the ETC forums:

Honestly it was back in '04 and I can't even remember what I had for dinner last night so I don't konw.

** What other interests do you have outside of Yu-Gi-Oh:

Pretty much all sports. Enjoy playing video games, currently in love with AoE III.

**Do you value cards based off secondary value, playability or both:

Both

** Any other comments that you would like to add or let us know about yourself:

I'm pretty easy going and very easy to get along with. I'll talk with anyone about anything, and it takes a lot to piss me off.

** How long have you been trading online? ETC.?

Been trading since about '04, and online since probably around '05

** Do you enjoy face to face trading or online trading more? What are some of the big differences between the two that you see?

They pretty much balance each other out. I like face to face trading because it's quick, you can actually see the cards before trading them, and you konw that you'll be getting them. I like Online trading because I am opened up to a whole plethora of cards that I normally wouldn't be able to get at locals/regionals. Pretty much every German card in the state of UT came from me initially because I traded for them on here.

** Name some of your favorite traders that you have had experiences with. Any bad experiences?

Chris (Netter) obv, Djjoe, had a trade with Adeel that went very well. Tina, though most of them were middleman at the time. I had one really bad experience with whitereaper, traded with in the past everything was good, then it all went downhill from there. Wasn't a bad experience with the trader just the Croatian postal service. Sent 14 low-key ULT's over to Croatia that ended up getting lost and ended up having to send over 7 more in order to compensate for it.

** If you were Trade Mod for a day, what would you change

Well, I personally think that a Featured Trader idea would be great........... O wait.

** Any cards that you would REALLY like to have, if money was no option?

I want an UR MJ and a set of UR Needle Worms

**Bonus Question**

** How the eff did Netter get so many cards (and why does he come up on the 1st page of Google searches)?

A long time ago (roughly '04), in a galaxy far, far away (Memphis, TN) the Sith Lord (Netter) and his young nappy-haired apprentice (Mark) made their way stealthily into the Jedi Temple (locals) and starting killing younglings (ripping off kids). The Jedi Council (store owners) were unable to stop Netter and Mark from killing their younglings. As time wore on, Netter and Marks power (card collection) grew to enormous proportions. Eventually it got to the point that Netter wanted all the power (cards) for himself. So he brought Mark to the Sith lair (a dark alley in Memphis) and killed him with the force (mugged him with his overly lard binder of cards), and took Mark's power (collection) for himself. Some say that the spirit of the Sith apprentice (Mark) still roams the halls of the new and imporved Sith lair (ETC) with a reddish-hue to symbolize his afflitiation with the dark side of the force (admins). Whereas Netter has taken the color of Blue in order to trick those that are unwary of his true indentity and purpose............

Long story short; it all started that that blasted Desert Twister,