(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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