Via mental command and directed movements, the ax can cleave spatial and dimensional rifts, allowing teleportation or summoning energy or materials, such as stellar-like heat/light; frigid ice from Earth's arctic reagion; destructive blasts; or energy that sapped the Hulk's gamma-powered stregnth. Though the ax blade was highly durable, its handle was less so. Skurge's evil deeds over his lifetime accumulated in his ax, generating a malevolent persona that influenced its holders, driving them to violence and evil. Most of the mystical elements were empowered by The Enchantress.