It looks like a sword because it was intended to be a vibroblade, and when the episode was in post-production George Lucas told them he didn't want a regular sword to block a lightsaber, so they went back and colored over it. http://www.ign.com/articles/2010/01/28/star-wars-are-you-ready-for-the-mandalorians
>Originally what Pre Vizsla was carrying was something in the EU called a vibroblade; it's kind of an electric sword. George let me get away with it in the early phases of design and in the early shooting, but when the color came back and he was watching the lightsaber we want to have combating this vibroblade, he said there's no way that can happen; there's no way that a non-lightsaber could block a lightsaber. So he had us do away with the vibroblade in that episode really late in the game, and he created something called the Darksaber, which would be a black-bladed energy saber with a white edge.
I give it a resounding meh.
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