All Hallow's Eve
Sorcery
Exile All Hallow's Eve with two scream counters on it.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if this card is exiled with a scream counter on it, remove a scream counter from it. If there are no more scream counters on it, put it into your graveyard and each player returns all creature cards from their graveyard to the battlefield.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Legends
- Price
- $522.25
- EDHREC rank
- #20587
All Hallow's Eve reanimates every creature from every graveyard simultaneously — a symmetrical reset that you win by having the best board after the dust settles. The two-turn delay via Lore counters is the price, and it's a real cost, but no other card at this mana value does anything close to this.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
All Hallow's Eve is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — and Commander is the only format where it sees meaningful play. In Legacy and Vintage, a four-mana sorcery with a two-turn delay simply can't compete with the raw speed of those environments, and symmetrical reanimation is far too dangerous when opponents run Griselbrand. In Commander, the multiplayer dynamic transforms the delay from a liability into a political tool — you can negotiate, stack the graveyard, and ensure your board dominates when the trigger resolves. Oathbreaker is theoretically viable if your planeswalker and signature spell capitalize on the mass reanimate, but the card's ceiling is squarely in 100-card multiplayer.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Living Death is the closest functional replacement at a fraction of the cost — it also swaps all graveyards onto the battlefield, just without the delay, which is actually better in most situations. Twilight's Call does the same thing at instant speed for one more mana, and Rise of the Dark Realms hits only your graveyard but goes bigger in dedicated reanimator shells. None of these replicate the political theater or collector appeal of All Hallow's Eve, but all three outperform it on raw efficiency.
Price Context
Current price
$522.25 premium tier
At $522.25, All Hallow's Eve sits firmly in the collectible tier — its price is driven almost entirely by scarcity and nostalgia rather than power level. Better functional replacements exist for under $5, so this is a purchase for collectors or players who want the original printing, not a competitive upgrade.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.