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Originally Posted by Curmudgeon
There's also the prospect of the GMing headache, "I know the bronze armor the villagers are wearing had the tin component of the bronze provided by a mage who conjured the tin up with an Earth to Stone spell (technically Earth to Metal, but still). Now the PC mage wants to cast dispel on the armor. What should happen to the bronze? Does it just become copper, copper with gaps caused by the loss of tin, some kind of copper/clay combination? I so don't need this!"
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Note that this particular problem comes about because you're already venturing out into House Rule land. The actual spell in Magic only lets you produce the bronze and not a separate amount of tin. Dispel Magic will work on the bronze but Earth to air (at 3x cost) will let you make mundane iron or steel just Go away. The first knight you leave in his arming garments that way is going to be very surprised.
<shrug>Magic (both the book and the phenomenon) is like that. It lets you violate the Laws of Physics almost be definition.