Although they share the Plane of Earth with common earth elementals, metal elementals are treated by some scholars as creatures of an entirely different element. A metal elemental has a body not of common stone or crystal, but of unworked ore, usually iron. Like an earth elemental, a metal elemental can have any number of shapes, all of which use the same statistics. When a metal elemental dies, the metal comprising its form instantly evaporates like so much ice on a warm day.