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Originally Posted by Shadow5YA
No one ever said Archer's Excalibur Image was made of the same materials as the real deal (in fact, his version is spelled with different kanji). It's very possible that he just replaced the materials he couldn't replicate with something else in his reality marble.
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I'd say that it's certain that he did. But those divine elements are part of Excalibur for a reason, and I doubt any materials Archer can think of from Earth will truly be able to take their place. So it's another reason why a traced Excalibur would, ordinarily, not be as good as a real one, aside from the fact that tracing by definition forms an imperfect copy.
All of that doesn't override the original point of this discussion, though. There are still valid reasons why Illya won, despite the fact that her sword should have been and probably was inferior.