You summon a draconic creature of challenge rating 12 or lower. It appears in an unoccupied space within the air that you can see within range, and must be above the ground at 60ft. The draconic creature disappears when it drops to 0 hit points or when the spell ends.
The draconic creature is friendly to you and your companions for the duration. Roll initiative for the creature, which has its own turns. It obeys any verbal commands that you issue to it (no action required by you), as long as they don't violate its alignment. If you don't issue any commands to the draconic creature, it defends itself from hostile creatures but otherwise takes no actions.
If your concentration is broken, the dragon doesn't disappear. Instead, you lose control of the dragon creature, it becomes hostile toward you and your companions, and it might attack. An uncontrolled dragon creature can't be dismissed by you, and it disappears 1 hour after you summoned it.
The GM has the draconic creature's statistics. Some sample creatures are listed below.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 8th level or higher, the challenge rating increases by +2 for each slot level above 7th level.
Sample Creatures
* - (the scale of an adult or older dragon)
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