Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour season 2006
| Pro Player of the Year |
 Shouta Yasooka
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| Rookie of the Year |
 Sebastian Thaler |
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| World Champion |
Makihito Mihara
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| Pro Tours | 5 | ||
| Grands Prix | 22 | ||
| Hall of Fame inductions |
Bob Maher, Jr. Dave Humpherys Raphaël Lévy Gary Wise Rob Dougherty |
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| Start of season | 10 December 2005 | ||
| End of season | 3 December 2006 | ||
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The 2006 Pro Tour season was the eleventh season of the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour. On 18 December 2005 the season began with parallel Grand Prixs in Lille and Charlotte. It ended on 3 December 2006 with the conclusion of the 2006 World Championship in Paris. The season consisted of 22 Grand Prixs and 5 Pro Tours, held in Honolulu, Prague, Charleston, Kobe, and Paris. At the end of the season Shouta Yasooka from Japan was proclaimed Pro Player of the year. At the Worlds in Paris the second class of the Hall of Fame was inducted. The inductees were Bob Maher, Jr., Dave Humpherys, Raphaël Lévy, Gary Wise, and Rob Dougherty.
Mark Herberholz won Pro Tour Honolulu piloting a green/red aggro-deck. He defeated Craig Jones in the finals. The final eight included both Ruel brothers, Antoine and Olivier. Notably absent from the Top 8 were the Japanese players after thirteen consecutive final day appearances.
Prize pool: $240,245
Players: 410
Format: Standard
Head Judge: John Shannon
Takuya Osawa won Pro Tour Prague, defeating Aaron Brackmann in the finals. In a Top 8 of rather unknown players Shuhei Nakamura was the only one to have made it to the final stage of a PT before.
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