[Baalz]

Another thing that dragons are good for is a cheap platform for a single bless. Dragons (I think) are the cheapest way to get a single path to level 9 or 10 (aside from the immobile pretenders). Getting just the water bless (at 10!) is enough to move several of the sacreds up into bad-*** territory and you can do it with decent scales and an awake, battle ready, flying pretender. That can give you a pretty decent edge at the beginning even against a double bless strategy, but with longer staying power due to your better scales.