Baby Dragon (Merge Tactics)

“Burps big fireballs that deal damage in a wide area”

The Baby Dragon is a card that belongs in the Fire and Blaster traits. It spawns an area-damage ranged troop with moderate hitpoints, very high damage, and very slow attack speed. The Baby Dragon takes the appearance of a small, spring green dragon with short, stubby, sky blue wings, ears, spikes, tongue, hands and feet, brown eyes, and yellow sclera. A Baby Dragon card costs 4 to deploy.

Strategy[]

Due to his massive splash area, the Baby Dragon can deal with enemy set-ups pretty quickly, especially due to his high damage. However, that is evened out by his very slow attack speed, which means that he takes time to rack up damage on multiple troops.
Baby Dragon is great for helping troops that struggle with multiple enemies on the field due to slow attack speed or low damage, like Knight, P.E.K.K.A., Mega Knight, Golden Knight, and Skeleton King.
Assassin is a great way to counter him, because not only does it target Baby Dragon and other ranged units first, defeating him before his damage racks up, but also because it separates those troops with other troops from the set-up, minimizing the amount of targets who take splash damage from Baby Dragon. Princess can also achieve this due to targeting the furthest away enemy in her sight range.
Activating Baby Dragon's Fire trait allows him to deal more damage when he defeats a troop. Due to his very slow attack speed, he should be supported with troops that deal notable damage, tank for him, or have a high attack speed, so that Baby Dragon has increased chances of defeating a troop for the damage buff.
Activating his Blaster trait allows him to stay further in the back due to the increased range, while also dealing more damage to his targets due to the damage per distance effect. As Baby Dragon's splash area is big, he can hit units even further away from his target, dealing even more damage and defeating them even quicker.

Statistics

Cost	Attack Period	Speed	Range	Critical Chance
4	2.5 seconds	Medium	3	15%

Level	Hitpoints (★)	Damage (★)	Damage Per Second (★)	Hitpoints (★★)	Damage (★★)	Damage Per Second (★★)	Hitpoints (★★★)	Damage (★★★)	Damage Per Second (★★★)	Hitpoints (★★★★)	Damage (★★★★)	Damage Per Second (★★★★)
6	715	141	56	1,287	226	90	2,316	361	144	4,169	578	231
7	728	144	57	1,310	230	92	2,358	368	147	4,244	589	235
8	741	147	58	1,333	234	93	2,400	375	150	4,320	599	239
9	754	149	59	1,357	238	95	2,442	381	152	4,396	610	244
10	767	152	60	1,380	243	97	2,485	388	155	4,472	620	248
11	780	154	61	1,404	247	98	2,527	394	157	4,548	631	252
12	793	157	62	1,427	251	100	2,569	401	160	4,623	641	256
13	806	159	63	1,450	255	102	2,611	407	162	4,699	652	260
14	819	162	64	1,474	259	103	2,653	414	165	4,775	662	264
15	832	165	66	1,497	263	105	2,695	421	168	4,851	673	269

History[]

2025

The Baby Dragon card was added in the 2025 Quarter 3 Update on 29/9/2025, under the Fire and Blaster traits. On the same day, a Balance Update decreased the Baby Dragon's Range to 3 hexes (from 4 hexes). It also increased the 2/2 Fire Bonus Damage Per Enemy Defeat to 40% (from 30%), and decreased the 4/4 Blaster Damage Per Hex to +15% (from +20%). Also on the same day, a maintenance break decreased the 2/2 Fire Bonus Damage Per Enemy Defeat to 30% (from 40%).

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

The Baby Dragon resembles dragons from European cultures, being reptilian legendary creatures, often depicted as winged, horned, and capable of breathing fire.
- The Baby Dragon is 1 of 2 Merge Tactics troops associated with fire, with the other being Wizard.
The Baby Dragon is tied with the P.E.K.K.A. for the lowest attack speed of all Merge Tactics troops, with an attack speed of 2.5 seconds.