The whole sentence makes even less sense:

"Though similar to role-playing fantasy games such as Dungeons and Dragons, it has significantly more cards and more complex rules than other card games."

As if similarity to D&D said anything at all about number of cards relative to other card games.

D&D has infinite cards.

It is similar in lore/setting.

That was an accurate statement in, say, 1994 but boy did it diverge. Though now they've published a D&D book based on an MTG specific setting so I suppose they could converge again.

It should also be mentioned that Magic effectively "ate up" D&D, when Wizards Of The Coast (owners of MTG) bought TSR (owners of D&D).

Not sure that's true MTG is not based on any of the DnD settings nor does it have Character Races and Classes.

Yep. In fact, the opposite is now true. Some of DnD is now (in part) based on MTG, including an MTG setting, MTG Character Races, and such.

http://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop-games/rpg-products/...

You have creature type (a list of tags basically). A Human Soldier or a Goblin Wizard is common in MTG.

You Have a thief in Catan

if my nerd history is correct - MTG almost killed dungeons and dragons in the 90's!

Did it? I sort of thought the 90's death of D&D was more of the hangover of the 'devil worshipping' accusations of the 80's finally hitting.

That and D&D being associated with all things nerd, which was very out of vogue through the 90's.

It definitely took a lot of attention at my local game shop away from traditional table top role playing.

cough 4th Edition cough but Pathfinder took over