Card Appearances:The Earl of Demise

"The Earl of Demise":

Yu-Gi-Oh!

This card's attack name is Sword of Burial in the English version and Big Knight Raid in the original Japanese version.

In episode 79, Yami Bakura uses this card during his Duel against Bonz. He summons this card by Tributing "Headless Knight". This card then attacks and destroys Bonz's "The Snake Hair". On Bakura's next turn, he activates "Spiritualistic Medium" to discard his entire hand and increase this card's ATK by 500 for each card discarded this way. With four cards sent this way, this card gains 2000 ATK. This card then attacks and destroys Bonz's "Great Mammoth of Goldfine". At the End Phase, this card's gains back its Original ATK. Bonz then activates "Nightmare's Steel Cage", preventing both players from for attacking for two turns. Bakura then activates "Ectoplasmer". On the End Phase, Bakura uses the effect of "Ectoplasmer" to Tribute this card and inflict effect damage to Bonz equal to half of this card's ATK, which wins Bakura the duel.

In episode 96, Yami Bakura uses this card during his Duel against Yami Marik. It was sent to the Graveyard due to "Multiple Destruction". Later Bakura activates the effect of "Puppet Master" to Special Summon this card, "Headless Knight" and "Goblin Zombie" from the Graveyard. In the next episode, Bakura Tributes this card, "Headless Knight" and "Goblin Zombie" to summon "The Winged Dragon of Ra" (obtained from Yami Marik via "Exchange"). Later Bakura activates "Premature Burial" to revive this card. Later Yami Marik activates "Monster Reborn" to revive "The Winged Dragon of Ra". He then activates its Point-to-Point Transfer effect to transfer all but 1 of his Life Points to "Ra". This card is then attacked and destroyed by Yami Marik's "Ra".

In episode 139, this card appears in a vision-like flashback Yami Marik shows to Yami Yugi when the former reveals what he did to Bakura.

In episode 200, Yami Bakura uses this card during his Duel against Seto Kaiba. He activates "Polymerization" to fuse this card with "Headless Knight" in order to Fusion Summon "Duke of Demise". Later Kaiba activates "Soul Release" to banish this card and "Duke of Demise" from the Graveyard. Since there are no Fiend or Zombie-type monsters in Bakura's Graveyard, Bakura's "Spirit Shield" is destroyed.