I mean this with all respect, venerable Ea-Nasir: Have you considered leaning into the "bad copper" shtick? Providing purposefully deformed or discolored copper, perhaps, or a "copper mystery lootbox" that always contains some other ore? You can only be a second-rate someone else but a first-rate Ea-Nasir, as they say
indeed, this might be a fruitful business venture for myself to look into
