What makes masticore and manticore different creature types?

The same thing that makes Elves and Goblins different creature types. They’re different creatures.

I just noticed something that triggered my hyper fixation and got me to open my abandoned tumblr to ask you, I just saw on gatherer that there are only 12 manticores in all of magic and none of them are legendary (not counting changelings cuz smh), given the fact that manticores are one of the most amazing and badass creatures in mythology would be realistic to think that they will get more tribal supp in close future to mid future?

Anything is possible, but typal support for a creature with just twelve cards is unlikely, unless it’s a core theme of a set.

Hi, considering what you posted on the "Fork ./. Reverberate" issue (your post id 173202717833 of Apr 22, 2018) how did the "Roc of Kher Ridges ./. Moonveil Regent" happen? I know it's not identical, but even strictly better (a better flyer than a 3/3 for 3R mana without negative effects, like e.g. on Flailing Manticore). In the "spirit of the RL" that should have been caught prior to releasing the Moonveil Regent, right? Cheers.

The Reserved List doesn’t mean we can’t make better cards than cards on the Reserved List. The Fork/Reverberate is about making an almost identical card.

""Red doesn’t get fliers with two exceptions, Dragons and Phoenixes. Dragon Hatchling is a Dragon, so it’s okay. Note, we don’t make a lot of baby Dragons. " Why did Manticores have to loose their wings?Fine, three exceptions. " No, seriously, Manticores lost their wings. They used to have them in magic, but more recent ones don't have them. I was legitimately wondering why.

Probably because red doesn’t get a lot of fliers.

I have heard that the card Chromanticore was originally intended to be legendary, but "Legendary Enchantmemt Creature - Manticore" simply did not fit on the type line. Is this true, and are there any (other) cards where this kind of physical limitation of the space on the card affected the intended design?

Yes. In Theros, the Gods couldn’t have a creature type other than God and their artifacts couldn’t be equipment. There are many other times it’s happened, but those are the two that popped into mind.

Any chance we'll see Chromanticore errata'd to legendary?

No, that would be functional errata which we avoid.

Correction: on German Magic cards, verursacht Trampelschaden (does trample damage) is still used semantically as a keyword, rather than a verb phrase, like how we treat "bands with other" in English. See the German edition of Chromanticore for an example... if you have telescopes for eyes.

Foreign language day continues. : )

You've said most planeswalkers (and therefore, I assume people in general) are not aware of the colorpie. So why are creatures like Cromat and Chromanticore clearly named after being multicolored?

Those are the names planeswalkers call them. : )

Is Green still secondary in Vigilance? There are only three Green cards in Standard with Vigilance, and one of them is Chromanticore.

It is. Keyword use can ebb and flow.

Born of the Gods is my least favorite set in all of Magic. This stems from one card; Chromanticore. I wanted to love this card, as a five color bestow creature has so much potential. However, instead of being a super cool enchantment creature showing off the five colors in an interesting way, we instead got a creature with 4 abilities that white can use, and the only non-white ability(Trample) still appears on a lot of off color mythics anyway. I still like the vast majority of Magic though.

That one card ruined the entire set? You set a high bar. : )