The Magic Pro Tour Hall of Fame is back—and it's adding three new members.

The first Hall of Fame class was inducted in 2005 and headlined by Jonny Magic himself, Jon Finkel. Over the years, more legendary names were added, from Kai Budde, Gabriel Nassif, William Jensen, and Luis Scott-Vargas to Shota Yasooka, Willy Edel, Lee Shi Tian, and Reid Duke. You get the idea—the Hall of Fame is a testament to Magic's history and to the idea that its history is worth honoring. It celebrates the very basis of competition that the Pro Tour was founded on in 1996, serving as the ultimate, lasting honor in a game that has seen prodigies come and go, champions rise and fall, and players who just kept winning.

In short, the Hall of Fame is the most prestigious honor a Magic competitive player can achieve, an immortalizing moment in an ecosystem that's built on a million little moments—and players—that came before. After the addition of a trio that boasts three World Championship titles, countless feature matches, and one oversized sword between them, the Hall of Fame will be occupied by exactly 51 Magic players, all chosen to represent the best of the best.

This year's class was selected by a 40-person committee comprised of selected current Hall of Fame members or active players, longtime reporters, commentators, and Wizards of the Coast employees with first-hand Pro Tour experience. To be considered, players needed at least five Top Finishes, with at least one post-2019 Top Finish and one Top Finish from 1994 to 2019. Eligible players needed to appear on at least 60% of the ballots for selection, with the official criteria being "players' performances, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, and contributions to the game in general."

No more preamble. Here are your 2026 Magic Pro Tour Hall of Fame selections:

• Javier Dominguez
  • Received 40 votes
• Ken Yukuhiro
  • Received 37 votes
• Jean-Emmanuel Depraz
  • Received 24 votes

Dominguez has become the first player to ever appear on every single ballot during a round of voting. It's a fitting honor of one of two players to ever win multiple Magic World Championships. Dominguez accomplished the feat in 2018 and 2024 as part of his incredible eleven Top Finishes, split between six Top Finishes before 2020 and five since.

Depraz, too, is a World Champion. He won Magic World Championship XXIX in 2023. Since then, he made it back to the Top 8 of the World Championship in 2025. With an incredible six Top Finishes since 2020 (and eight overall), Depraz has regularly been cited as one of the best technical players over the last five years, and his selection for the Hall of Fame—with exactly the 60% of the votes needed—reflects his sustained excellence.

The same applies to Yukuhiro, who put up four Top Finishes before 2020 and a Team Series title, and five more since. That includes his victory at 2025's Pro Tour Magic: The Gathering®—FINAL FANTASY™, where the Heartfire Hero piloted Mono-Red to a long-coming Pro Tour title—then posed for one of Magic's all-time great trophy shots. That was just the beginning of a banner year for Yukuhiro, who followed up with Top Finishes at Magic World Championship 31 and Pro Tour Magic: The Gathering® | Marvel Super Heroes to cement his Hall of Fame trophy case.

Each of these players will be officially inducted into the Hall of Fame this November at MagicCon: Atlanta. I had a chance to speak with each of the soon-to-be-inducted players, celebrate their journeys, and ask them about what lies ahead.

Ken Yukuhiro

Home Country: Japan

Started Playing: 2008

Top Finishes: 9

Titles: Pro Tour Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY; Team Series with Team Musashi; 2025 Player of the Year

Fans will forever remember Yukuhiro's dramatic victory at Pro Tour Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY, but the Tokyo native is just as proud of the international Team Series title he earned back in 2016–17 as part of the Japanese super-squad Team Musashi, which also included Kentaro Yamamoto, Pro Tour Magic: The Gathering | Marvel Super Heroes Champion Yuuki Ichikawa, and Shota Yasooka of the Hall of Fame.

"There are two accomplishments I'm most proud of: winning the Pro Tour and winning the Team Series with Musashi," he reflected. "Winning the Pro Tour was the fulfillment of a lifelong goal, so it's undoubtedly the achievement I'm most proud of in my life. As for the Team Series victory, being part of a team full of all-stars and contributing to the win as a member gave me confidence for the rest of my Magic career."

Now, Yukuhiro joins the ranks of those he looked up to for years—and in that, he sees a new challenge.

"Hall of Fame superstars, who brought color to the competitive scene, were the figures I looked up to when I started playing," Yukuhiro recalled. "Hall of Fame players, recognized by the global Magic community, are special figures of admiration for all players. I believe that fostering such exceptional players is crucial to the long-standing history of Magic. For me, this induction into the Hall of Fame feels like being given a home in Magic. Because I have a home I can always return to, no matter what happens in my life from here on out, I'll always be able to play Magic. Nothing could make me happier.

"Induction into the Hall of Fame is both a goal and a new beginning. Going forward, I hope to continue earning recognition as a Hall of Fame player."

Jean-Emmanuel Depraz

Home Country: France

Started Playing: 2005

Top Finishes: 8

Titles: 2018 World Magic Cup with Team France; Magic World Championship XXIX

Very few players, even among the elite of the Pro Tour, are ever referred to by their peers as the actual best player in the world. But for long stretches of Jean-Emmanuel Depraz's illustrious career and his decade-long run of excellence that began with a Top 8 at Pro Tour Rivals of Ixalan in Bilbao in 2018 and culminated with the World Championship title in 2023, Depraz regularly drew that praise.

What he accomplished is as impressive as any other Hall of Fame run. He won the World Magic Cup in 2018 alongside Arnaud Hocquemiller and Timothée Jammot, posted a string of 2nd-place finishes at the 2019 Mythic Championship V, the Players Tour, and in the final standings of 2020–2021's Magic Pro League Gauntlet, then capped it off with a runner-up finish to Yuta Takahashi in Magic World Championship XXVII. Alongside his World Championship appearances, his first-ever major victory at Grand Prix Warsaw in 2017 and World Magic Cup victory stand out.

The near miss in the World Championship finals kept Depraz going, and two years later at Magic World Championship XXIX, Depraz shook off the ghosts of elusive titles and swept Kazune Kosaka in the finals to cap a dominant decade. He's gone on to add two more Top Finishes to his results since then, including an incredible third run to the World Championship Top 8 at Magic World Championship 31 in 2025.

"I was an avid Pro Tour viewer since the beginning of the 2010s, and there were many players I'd watch with stars in my eyes. So I was over the moon, honestly, when I found out," Depraz said of his selection. "The way I see it, Magic is such a harsh game in terms of how your skill and investment correlate with your success. Having something that rewards players for long-term consistency, even though it's somewhat based around Top Finishes, matters. Even someone who's had many Top Finishes is never a lock for another one, no matter how hard they try. So, telling such a player something along the lines of 'You've done enough to be considered one of the all-time greats' is a nice way to cap off their career, whether it actually ends there or not.

"This is something I've been dreaming about for years without even knowing if the Hall of Fame would ever come back, so being inducted, in the first new class, no less, feels like a huge honor."

Javier Dominguez

Home Country: Spain

Started Playing: 2001

Top Finishes: 11

Titles: 2018 Magic World Championship; Mythic Championship V, Magic World Championship 30

Examining the first-ever unanimous inductee into the Magic Pro Tour Hall of Fame, there's simply no argument against the overdue vote for Javier Dominguez, one of only two players to ever win the individual Magic World Championship twice and the only competitor to ever play in the World Championship finals three times. Dominguez's eleven Top Finishes rank as the seventh most of all time, and his three trophies at such events place him into the most rarified air—only eight other Magic players in history have ever hoisted as many trophies.

Dominguez will never forget the pair of World Championships he won, but he'll also never forget the World Championship loss that fueled those wins.

"Finishing as the runner-up in 2017, that's where the Hall of Fame really began for me," he explained. "Winning the World Championship always felt out of reach, like it wasn't meant for me to be there playing in it. But it did happen, and that felt like a victory in a way. I knew I could make it moving forward."

With his upcoming induction into the Hall of Fame, Dominguez has proven he is not just a former World Champion. He's a captain and mentor on one of the most successful Pro Tour testing teams in the world. Through it all, he has kept his joy for playing the game.

"It's just special. There's nothing like it. It's special in the way it's this unique moment that will never happen again in my life. Because that's what this is. I've been playing Magic for most of my life, and this is a recognition of that," Dominguez marveled. "I never thought that this would be me. I was never going to be one of the greats. I didn't think it was possible, but here I am, and that means there's someone out there like me who doesn't think it's possible for them to make it.

"But it is. That's my story."

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Ken Yukuhiro, Jean-Emmanuel Depraz, and Javier Dominguez will be inducted into the Magic Pro Tour Hall of Fame during MagicCon: Atlanta later this year. The ceremony will be held in person and streamed on twitch.tv/magic and the Play MTG YouTube channel on Sunday, November 15, 2026. No matter where you join in from, we look forward to celebrating these three players on Magic's global stage.

The next class will be selected in 2028, and we look forward to celebrating a new round of Magic's greatest players. For more information on the Hall of Fame, check out this article.