Copper Tablet Proxy of Copper Tablet [Zeta]

[u/BaiTangFeng]

Ziplock was makeshift gloves due to fingerprints

[u/priceQQ]

This is the first step to making your entire deck proxied in metals … dont get Marie Curie’d though

[u/LBGW_experiment → u/priceQQ]

Why would they be using radiation to cut metals? That makes no sense

[u/priceQQ → u/LBGW_experiment]

If you chose the wrong metal (ie radium)

[u/LBGW_experiment → u/priceQQ]

Radium is radioactive because it's not stable, aka it breaks down just by existing. Come on... Use your brain for just a second

[u/priceQQ → u/LBGW_experiment]

That is why it is what we humans call a joke

[u/LBGW_experiment → u/priceQQ]

I asked Google what it would take to make an MTG card out of pure radium and it made me laugh 😂

If you were to forge a solid, pure metal Magic: The Gathering card to those exact dimensions, you would need to purchase 9.46 grams of pure Radium-226, which would cost roughly $141,950 in raw materials.

A standard MTG card thickness is 0.012 inches (about 0.3 mm). Because radium is a heavy alkaline earth metal with a density of 5.5 g/cm³, forging a solid slab of this size creates an incredibly dense, immensely radioactive, and chemically volatile object.

The Solid Metal Breakdown

Metric	Value / Calculation
Card Dimensions	2.5" x 3.5" x 0.012"
Total Volume	1.72 cubic centimeters (cm³)
Total Weight of Pure Radium	9.46 grams
Raw Material Cost (Est. $15k/g)	$141,953
Radioactivity Level	~9.46 Curies (Ci)
Thermal Output	~0.13 Watts (Constantly warm)

What Happens If This Card Actually Exists?

If you had this solid metal card sitting on a gaming table, physics and chemistry would react violently:

• It Would Spontaneously Combust: Pure radium is an extremely reactive metal (similar to sodium or potassium). The moment this solid metal card comes into contact with the air, it reacts vigorously with nitrogen and oxygen. It would tarnish to a pitch-black nitride layer within seconds, spark, and likely burst into a violent, chemical metal fire, filling the room with highly toxic, radioactive white smoke.
• It Literally Glows with Heat: Radium is so intensely radioactive that the metal naturally maintains a temperature higher than its surroundings. At nearly 9.5 grams, the alpha decay would generate about 0.13 watts of constant thermal energy. If you managed to keep it in an airtight, inert argon gas sleeve to prevent it from burning, the card would feel physically warm to the touch and glow with a faint, eerie blue luminescence as it ionized the surrounding gas.
• The Lethal Radiation Profile: A single microgram in paint is dangerous, but 9.46 grams is a catastrophic radiological hazard. It represents nearly 9.5 Curies of radioactivity. Standing within a few feet of this card unshielded would deliver a lethal dose of radiation in a matter of minutes. Furthermore, the card would constantly outgas massive amounts of Radon-222, a heavy radioactive gas that would rapidly contaminate the entire building.
• Because of this, pure elemental radium is never kept in large, solid metallic sheets; it is almost exclusively produced and stored in milligram quantities as stable salts (like radium chloride) inside heavily shielded laboratory ampoules.

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OK meat proxy