Carrion Dragon has the following benefits:

Counts as a Manakin for purposes of Carrion Wood theme (is affected by the Carrion Woods Unholy special spells, notably, Mend the Dead and Regrowth)

Has a huge amount of hp. It's not uncommon to see him breaking the 400+ barrier in dragon form in positivie dominion.

Has a crazy amount of attacks with Sleep Vines and etc.

Has Recuperation.

Base form has stealth, so you can stealth into an initial province, your dominion is raised by being a pretender, and attack a province. This is how CW expands early for me.

His negatives:

Counts as a magical creature.

Counts as undead.

Can't fly (Obvious I know, but the first time I used him I changed form to fly somewhere and forgot he was a dead dragon


I like him with Astral/Earth.