Is Magic: The Gathering’s new set intentionally similar to Disney Lorcana?

polygon.com:

As of this coming weekend Magic: The Gathering, arguably the world’s most popular trading card game, has a new competitor. Ravensburger’s Disney Lorcanalaunches on Aug. 18 and, after its debut at Gen Con in Indianapolis, a lot of heads are being turned by the new hotness. It’s a potent mix of classic animated characters like Cinderella, Stitch, and Frozen’s Elsa that has Disney fans and TCG collectors both lining up for product. That’s what makes Magic’s latest set so very conspicuous — it’s also chockablock with fantastical royalty and fairy tale characters.

Magic’s next set of cards, titled Wilds of Eldraine, includes plenty of characters and themes that share a common ancestry with classic Disney films. They include questing knights, apple-wielding witches, and winged fairies. Some of its cards even evoke the brightly-colored, fantastical landscapes pictured in classic films like Sleeping Beauty and Snow White. But all of those features appear distinct enough — and public domain enough — not to raise the hackles of the legal team lurking deep inside the Magic Kingdom.

But it is a bit of a coincidence, wouldn’t you say? We put the question to Elizabeth Stewart, senior communications manager at Wizards of the Coast, during a private press briefing last week.

“‘Was scheduling this set a conscious effort to directly compete with the launch of Disney Lorcana using public domain characters?’” said Stewart, reciting our question during the call. “No,” she said plainly. “[Given] that we work on our sets pretty well far in advance, I don’t think we even think we even knew Disney Lorcana was a thing when this thing was being designed.”

Given past precedent, the statement checks out. Disney Lorcana was a closely guarded secret