2006

The year 2006 was the fourteenth year of existence for Magic: The Gathering.

Events

Date		Event
January 19		Wizards of the Coast files suit against Daron Rutter (screen name: rancored_elf) and several unknown persons over several card spoiler lists posted on the MTG Salvation forums.
February 3		Release of Guildpact
March 3-5		Pro Tour Honolulu, USA. Won by Template:Flagicon USA Mark Herberholz. Start of the 2006 Pro Tour season, now overlapping with the calendar year.
March 31		Hobby Shop Lotus Kotesashi in Tokorozawa-shi, Japan, hosts the one millionth DCI-sanctioned tournament of Magic: The Gathering.
April 1		Announcement of Coldsnap, claimed to be a "lost design file" only recently found. The latter was later announced to be an April Fools joke.
April 7		Wizards of the Coast and Daron Rutter (rancored_elf) sign a settlement agreement which ends the legal action.
April 10		Release of Visions on Magic Online.
May 5		Release of Dissension
May 10-12		Magic Invitational in Los Angeles, California, USA. Won by Template:Flagicon FRA Olivier Ruel. Last one to be hosted by Magic Online on the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3).
March 5-7		Pro Tour Prague, Czech Republic. Won by Template:Flagicon JPN Takuya Osawa.
June 16-18		Pro Tour Charleston, USA. Won by team ... (Template:Flagicon JPN Tomohiro Kaji, Template:Flagicon JPN Shota Yasooka and Template:Flagicon JPN Tomoharu Saito).
July 21		Release of Coldsnap Replacing Homelands as a member of the Ice Age block. 'Snow-covered' supertype changed to 'snow' and expanded to nonland permanents.
August 22		WotC announces another price increase for both paper and online product.
August 21		Wizards of the Coast announces a strategic partnership with Ultra Pro.
August 25		Start of The Great Designer Search.
October 6		Release of the nostalgia-themed Time Spiral. First appearance of timeshifted cards, featuring the old Seventh Edition card frame and a new purple expansion symbol. First set to use a new premium card distribution method where foil cards of all rarities replace a common card in booster packs.
October 20-22		Pro Tour Kobe, Japan. Won by Template:Flagicon DEU Jan-Moritz Merkel.
November 29 - December 4		2006 World Championship in Paris, France. Won by Template:Flagicon JPN Makihito Mihara. Team champions: Template:Flagicon NLD The Netherlands.
		Player of the Year: Template:Flagicon JPN Shouta Yasooka
		Rookie of the Year: Template:Flagicon DEU Sebastian Thaler
		Hall of Fame inductees Template:Flagicon USA Bob Maher, Jr. Template:Flagicon USA Dave Humpherys Template:Flagicon FRA Raphaël Lévy Template:Flagicon CAN Gary Wise Template:Flagicon USA Rob Dougherty

Publications

• Guildpact (January)
• Dissension (May)
• Dragons: Worlds Afire (June)
• Time Spiral (September)

First involved

Wizards of the Coast

• Kelly Digges (editor)

R&D

• Zvi Mowshowitz
• Cormac Russell
• Mike Turian
• Steve Warner

Artists

Dissension

• Brian Hagan

Guildpact

• James Wong
• Jason Norman
• Liam Sharp

Coldsnap

• Dan dos Santos
• Dave Kendall
• E. M. Gist
• Jeff Nentrup
• Rebekah Lynn
• Steve Belledin
• Volkan Baga
• Yokota Katsumi

Time Spiral

• Craig Mullins