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Originally Posted by TGLS
Option A: Fiat that a chipped diamond is an intact diamond. A chip of diamond is an intact diamond, just as much as a sheet of paper taken from a ream is still intact paper.
Option B: Fiat that diamond is a raw material, and thus cannot be rebuilt. Otherwise you can duplicate literally any raw material. One sheet of rolled steel can duplicate an entire roll.
Option C: Don't bring in this spell in the first place. There's plenty of ways to get rich fast off magic. This one isn't quite as apparent. Repair is useful in most circumstances where rebuild could be used.
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Option D: Rule that the fragment is a chip of the volcanic pipe it was originally part of, with a mass of approximately 3 billion metric tons, for a cost of 12 billion mana points, and a several hundred acre site to dump it on. Though admitted that will eventually net you quite a few other nice stones....
Seriously, creation magic of any sort is unbalanced without everybody buying into the genre convention that you [don't] use it to create vast wealth.
The logical game mechanical enforcement mechanism is that if you attempt to magically create something more valuable than a trivial fraction of your Wealth level (in this case several levels of Multimillionare minimum), the spell fails. Why? You have no idea. But if it [didn't] there would be no logical justification for your character (and whoever taught him the spell) not already having that level of Wealth, so there must be one or your character design wasn't realistic.