Gailock

Item #: SCP-5467

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-5467 is best kept in any place it cannot be mistaken for a regular box of matches

Description:
SCP-5467 appears to be a matchbox on which reads “Phoenix Matches”, under a picture of the titular creature, the Phoenix. The box itself is 46 x 31.5 x 14 mm and contains 50 matches, each of which are 37 x 2 x 2 mm. The only physical difference between these matches are that the tips seem to be made of an unknown substance.

Additional Info:
When a match is lit from SCP-5467, it will burn until the entire stick has been reduced to ash. After 24 hours the ash will disappear and a new match will appear in the box. Attempts to burn SCP-5467, box and matches, will result in the box re-appearing in any source of fire after one week, the fire is then immediately put out.

When broken in half, the matches will remain in this state until burnt. If only one half is burnt, the other half with spontaneously combust once the first half is entirely gone. Once the matches is lit, it cannot be extinguished. Any flames started with the phoenix matches will burn until the match itself is ash. SCP-5467 is incapable of burning anything that could not normally be put on fire.