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 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 Introducing the Azorius, Rakdos and Simic guilds.
May 5-7	Pro Tour Prague, Czech Republic. Won by Template:Flagicon JPN Takuya Osawa.
May 10-12	Magic Invitational in Los Angeles, California, USA. Won by Template:Flagicon FRA 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 (Template:Flagicon JPN Tomohiro Kaji, Template:Flagicon JPN Shota Yasooka and Template:Flagicon JPN 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 Template:Flagicon DEU Jan-Moritz Merkel.
November 29 - December 3	2006 Magic World Championships 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