But, it has proven to be a very powerful planeswalker, probably the best in Standard, and is even seeing play in other formats
As with our prior top 10 lists like this, we will only be using the base version of cards and wont be counting alternative artwork treatments (this prevents 40% of the list just being variants of Hidetsugu, Devouring Chaos)
Most importantly, you can hold up all your countermagic with this
A 4-mana 3/3 with Menace isnt amazing -- it is probably a 2.0 at best -- however -- this brings a blood token along with it, and I think Id already be playing that card a reasonable chunk of the time, but it also has the impressive upside of making itself into a 5/5 when it attacks, provided you have blood
If a player tried to remove it with a spell like [c]Disenchant[/c], nothing would happen to Darksteel Axe, although Disenchant would go to the graveyard after being played