(Opened May 27, 2015)
Tarkir is a special plane where dragons abound yet there are no dragon eggs to be found: all dragons in the plane emerge fully formed from a phenomenon called "dragon tempests", which in turn is mainly due to the presence of Ugin, the Spirit Dragon.
The absence of baby dragons - and for that matter, the existence of spirit dragons - is not unique to Tarkir, however. Older planeswalkers will recall that such concepts also exist in a plane called Kamigawa, where five spirit dragons ruled the heavens after breaching through from the plane's spirit world; one can assume that they didn't come from eggs either.
Without dragon eggs, the dragons themselves would have no need for mating, and the dragon tempests probably ensured that the dragons in Tarkir are effectively asexual. So why is it then that some dragonlords are referred to as male while some are female? If the English language is inherently limited (due to its lack of genderless pronouns), why not just refer to all of the dragons as male, or all of the dragons as female, especially when there's practically no physical differences between them anyway?
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Pack #25: Fate Reforged, featuring Flamewake Phoenix
(Opened May 23, 2015)
I believe Dragons of Tarkir, being the second Magic expansion to ever feature dragons, has endangered dragons' status as red's iconic creatures. It's not because of the sudden glut of dragon creature cards available in the set, but the excess of non-red dragons that pushes the envelope towards draconic fatigue.
This hasn't happened before when Scourge followed a minor dragon theme and limited all (except for one) dragon creatures to black and (mostly) red cards. This didn't happen either during Avacyn Restored since all of the angel cards had at least a hint of white in them. Ojutai's brood in Dragons of Tarkir, however, broke the novelty of red dragons when lots of dragon and dragon-themed cards showed up in the least draconic colors: blue and white.
The phoenix is now at a slightly higher position to replace the dragon in its red iconic position: it is also evocative of fantasy settings, it has never appeared in a common or uncommon card, and has yet to be summoned using anything other than red mana.