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 Introducing the Orzhov, Izzet and Gruul guilds.
March 3–5	Pro Tour Honolulu, USA. Won by 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 Introducing the Azorius, Rakdos and Simic guilds.
May 5–7	Pro Tour Prague, Czech Republic. Won by Takuya Osawa.
May 10–12	Magic Invitational in Los Angeles, California, USA. Won by Antoine Ruel. Last Invitational to be hosted by Magic Online on the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3).
June 16–18	Pro Tour Charleston, USA. Won by team Kajiharu80 ( Tomohiro Kaji, Shota Yasooka and Tomoharu Saito).
July 21	Release of Coldsnap Replacing Homelands as part of the Ice Age block. 'Snow-covered' supertype changed to 'snow' and expanded to nonland permanents.
July - August	Last season of the Arena League.
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 Jan-Moritz Merkel.
November 29 - December 3	2006 World Championships in Paris, France. Won by Makihito Mihara. Team champions: The Netherlands.
	Player of the Year: Shouta Yasooka.
	Rookie of the Year: Sebastian Thaler.
	Hall of Fame inductees: Bob Maher, Jr. Dave Humpherys Raphaël Lévy Gary Wise 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