Talk:Eggs/@comment-154.20.31.218-20121103030517/@comment-4998377-20121103033019

One of the goals of the change was to reduce the overall amount of images needed to load on the page - the element flags being a major contributor.

Also, not sure you remember but this was not true for every limited. Dragons like Clover, Sakura, Butterfly, and Solstice required a specific dragon in their breeding combination.