Dragon Master

[CUnknown]

Has anyone used this spell effectively?

I like the concept behind it, but the way I am looking at it, it just doesn't seem all that useful. If I have access to level-8 enchantment, why would I want to spend 30 gems so I could summon level-2 cave drakes? Shouldn't I use those gems to summon level-8 summons instead?

Maybe, using it with Eriu to summon Wyverns? Are Wyverns any good in mid to late game?

I checked it with Iron Dragons, and it doesn't work. I thought that 2 free iron dragons would rock, but I still just got 1.

[Folket]

I don't understand it. Why do people always think dragon master should work with iron dragons? Iron dragons are constructs. That should be saying that people that are good with horses should be good at making statues of horses.

I find that summoning dragons is a totally different thing from making mechanical monstrosities.

[thejeff]

Because they're called dragons and might make the spell marginally useful?

[normalphil]

I've used it with Tir na Nog and Eiru as a world-beater. It isn't so much Wyverns are good in the mid-to-late-game as obscene quantities of Wyverns are good in the mid-to-late-game.

[Sombre]

In vanilla it's an awful, awful spell.

[Folket]

Make the spell cost 100 gems and make it work for Tarrasques. That would make sense and make the spell useful. Or make the spell cheaper in research and/or gems.