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Summons and binds a powerful dragon to perform the caster's bidding. At high power it may summon particularly deadly varieties of dragon, or multiple lesser dragons at once.

Summon Dragon summons a dragon. Possible summons include:

D Fire dragon

D Ice dragon

D Storm dragon

D Shadow dragon

D Iron dragon

D Quicksilver dragon

D Golden dragon

The following enemies cast Summon Dragon:

The following enemies may be able to cast Summon Dragon, depending on their spell set:

& Pandemonium lord (2.8% chance)

History

Summon Dragon
Level	9
School¹	Summoning
Source(s)	Book of the Dragon
Casting noise	7
Spell noise	0

Summon Dragon used to be a player spell, but was replaced with Dragon's Call in 0.14. It allowed you to summon dragons, with the strength and number of dragons increasing with spellpower.

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+'''Summon Dragon''' summons a dragon. Possible summons include:
+{{monsterlink|Fire dragon}}
+{{monsterlink|Ice dragon}}
+{{monsterlink|Storm dragon}}
+{{monsterlink|Shadow dragon}}
+{{monsterlink|Iron dragon}}
+{{monsterlink|Quicksilver dragon}}
+{{monsterlink|Golden dragon}}
+{{monsters with spell}}
+==History==
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-{{Flavour|This spell summons and binds a powerful dragon to perform the caster's bidding.<br>You can sustain at most two creatures summoned by this spell.}}
+Summon Dragon used to be a player spell, but was replaced with [[Dragon's Call]] in [[0.14]]. It allowed you to summon dragons, with the strength and number of dragons increasing with spellpower.
-[[Summon Dragon]] is a level 9 [[Summonings]] spell which summons one or (rarely) two [[list of dragons|dragon]]s to fight for you. Possible summons include:
-*[[File:Dragon.png]]{{Green|D}} [[Dragon]]
-*[[File:Ice dragon.png]]{{White|D}} [[Ice dragon]]
-*[[File:Storm dragon.png]]{{LightBlue|D}} [[Storm dragon]]
-*[[File:Shadow dragon.png]]{{Magenta|D}} [[Shadow dragon]]
-*[[File:Iron dragon.png]]{{Cyan|D}} [[Iron dragon]]
-*[[File:Quicksilver dragon.png]]{{LightCyan|D}} [[Quicksilver dragon]]
-*[[File:Golden dragon.png]]{{Yellow|D}} [[Golden dragon]]
-If you summon more than 2 dragons, the ones with shorter durations will time out, but not as fast as other summons do. They will last 6 or 7 turns.
-==Strategy==
-At first glance, this spell doesn't seem very useful. By the time you can cast it reliably, most dragons are not a serious threat to you. However, it has several strong points. While the earlier dragons you can acquire aren't terribly impressive, the iron, quicksilver, and golden dragons you receive at high [[spell power]] are quite powerful, and even fire and ice dragons can be useful when you summon two at once. The spell's summoning duration is very long, even without full power, so you can summon an army and channel back the MP before a fight instead of wasting time or being at less than full power during the fight.
-While you aren't sure exactly what you're going to get out of the spell, dragons are not without their strengths. They are durable enough to soak [[hellfire]] and other late game threats, and come with innate resistances. They have ranged breath weapons, trample in melee, and are (mostly) flying and mobile enough to keep up with you.
-It's significantly safer than several other powerful Summonings ([[Haunt]], [[Summon Horrible Things]], [[Summon Greater Demon]]): it causes no side effects (sickness, stat drain), it doesn't upset the good [[god]]s (neither chaotic nor demonic), the dragons are never hostile and will not turn on you, and it's relatively easy to find.
-On the downside, the spell only summons one or two dragons at a time and it does not use smite targeting. This can make it hard to set up a meat shield on demand. Also, a group of [[Summon Horrible Things|6 large abominations]] can likely dish out more raw melee damage per turn than one dragon.
-==History==
-Summon Dragon was replaced with [[Dragon's Call]] in [[0.14]].
-[[Category:Obsolete spells]]
+[[Category:Monster spells]]