That creature type seems somehow contradictory.

It's better than "Fake-Giant Giant".

And also better than Giant Dwarf, and than Fish Monger and Designer Shade. But that still doesn't make it a sensible type line to print :P

I've got an idea!

What are you meaning by "homunculus"?

Traditionally, the word meant what its Latin etymology says it means: "little man". Specifically, a constructed, artificial little man (as opposed to a midget). It's a bit like "golem".

In Magic, it tends to have pretty much that meaning, but perhaps with a bit of thrull-like flavour. See Sneaky Homunculus and Puppet Conjurer.

There's also the meaning popularised by Fullmetal Alchemist, in which homunculi are creepy, shade-like creatures, created accidentally by forbidden acts of alchemy; and the scientific meaning which seems to be basically "reduced-scale model of the human body"

I don't think a "Giant Mandrake" sounds like either a Giant Homunculus or a Plant Homunculus using either the traditional, Magic, or FMA meanings of "homunculus". It might make sense in the scientific meaning, but a "giant reduced-scale model" is also somewhat brain-bending as a concept.

I was going by the approximate formula for creating a homunculus as described on the infamous wikipedia:

"One such variant involved the use of the mandrake. Popular belief held that this plant grew where semen ejaculated by hanged men (during the last convulsive spasms before death) fell to the ground, and its roots vaguely resemble a human form to varying degrees. The root was to be picked before dawn on a Friday morning by a black dog, then washed and "fed" with milk and honey and, in some prescriptions, blood, whereupon it would fully develop into a miniature human which would guard and protect its owner."

Note: I had just watched Pan's Labyrinth.

Ahh! I hadn't encountered that particular myth of homunculus creation. If it's a reference to an established means of making one, then I completely retract my objection.

Note: the above comments have nothing to do with the current design.