Deep Red dragon

What a Deep Red dragon looks like

Deep Red is the super form of Red: two copies of the gene where a Red has one. It is graded Epic, a step above the Rare two copies of a simple gene usually get.

Colour genes change the body itself, the bottom layer of a dragon's look, so Deep Red stacks with any pattern, white or accent gene on the same dragon.

Nothing in the game today hides Deep Red: a dragon with two copies always shows it.

How to breed a Deep Red dragon

Deep Red takes two copies of the Red gene, one from each parent, so both parents must carry it. A Deep Red passes the gene to every baby.

Two Red dragons give a Deep Red in 25% of eggs. Once you have one, pair it with a Red for 50%, or with another Deep Red and every egg is one. Paired with a Normal, a Deep Red gives a Red in every egg and no Deep Red.

What you see is what it carries: a Deep Red always has two copies, so there are no hets to prove. For the Punnett square behind these numbers, see how to read breeding odds.

Combinations with Deep Red

The combinations book collects every body colour with every element. A Deep Red dragon that also shows Lava is a Deep Red Lava, one of the 8 squares open today, and the first keeper to hatch each square holds it as a world first.

Rose Grey: A silver-grey dragon with a rose-red blush along the flanks. Grey is held back for after launch, so nobody can breed Rose Grey yet.

Where to get a Deep Red dragon

Deep Red turns up in crate dragons. In the pool of genes every crate draws from, the Red gene comes up at a rate of 8%; the Iron Crate turns that up 2.3 times and the Lava Crate 4 times. How often a crate dragon shows any morph at all depends on the crate: 8% in the Wooden Crate, 35% in the Iron Crate and 70% in the Lava Crate.

A crate dragon with two copies of a gene is rarer than one with a single copy, so the sure way to a Deep Red is to breed two Red dragons.