Well, maybe not in specific fantasy books (or series), but definitely still clichés. Magic cards, Taroh, mad puppets/dolls/clowns, floating mountains, big bad hounds, young captain eager to prove himself... all these things appear in bloody hundreds of different books/films/comics/TV shows/whatever. Do these fantasy elements/themes have to be taken from a specific fantasy book (and all of them from the same book) to be a fantasy cliché? I don't think they do. Taroh cards have been done to death over the decades! And it's pretty clear that's what the DoD is based on
Nothing wrong with using old themes, as we all know, as long as they're done well, and from a fresh angle. These features of GotM left me feeling somewhat bored and unimpressed. I didn't think they were done in an interesting way; they felt cheap.
SPOILER for Midnight Tides (I think)
As for the floating mountains thing, as an example of how he improved on it (for me)... he took this concept of a magic floating mountain, and kind of gave it a reason for being. It was created by the K'Chain'chamaileliliesill using their magic. So he gave a bunch of dinosaurs a mastery of physics and gravity, all wrapped up in magic clothes. Now
that I thought was interesting