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That would make total sense, right? The crazy part is that you can't even activate those spells with something like energy. It [i]has[/i] to be gold, or whatever else the spell uses.
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Gold specifically likely induces some sort of reaction that it’s makeup energy alone doesn’t. But I can’t just say that as an all-encompassing blanket for the phenomenon.