★ Butterfly Knife | Boreal Forest (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The Boreal Forest finish pairs a muted woodland camo blade with green handles that carry grey-brown inlays in their channels. Minimal Wear keeps the camouflage contrast intact, with only small signs of use where the edge meets the paint. The knife reads as a clean, low-key green piece in hand.

Item type: knife. Covert is the top weapon rarity: usually the most prominent items of a collection or case.

Hydrographic: the pattern is applied as a film over the metal; wear rubs it down to the base, starting with raised parts.

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The blade carries a forest camouflage hydrographic in olive, dark green, near-black and pale grey patches that run along its curved profile up to the tip. Both handles are painted in a solid green, with grey-brown inlays set into their long channels and rows of cut-out holes along the sides.

Minimal Wear may show small light specks along the cutting edge or near the tip. The camo patches keep their shape and contrast across the blade face. The handles stay clean green with intact inlays. In game the wear is hard to spot during inspection.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of ★ Butterfly Knife | Boreal Forest is 0.06–0.8; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (11% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

It drops from Operation Breakout Weapon Case (on sale since Jun 23, 2014) as a rare special item.

What it costs in each quality

Taking Minimal Wear as the baseline:

• Factory New — 1.6× dearer
• Field-Tested — 11% cheaper
• Well-Worn — 10% cheaper
• Battle-Scarred — 12% cheaper

The comparison uses our cheapest listing of each quality; where there is none, the market reference.

By price this skin is 21st of 23 skins Covert Butterfly Knife in this quality (the first being the dearest).

StatTrak™ version

This skin has a the StatTrak™ version with a kill counter. Right now it is 10% dearer than the regular one.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, since a low value keeps noticeably more camo on the blade.
• Inspect the cutting edge and tip first, as these lose the camouflage before any other part.
• Look at the handle edges and corners to see how much green paint has rubbed off.
• Note whether the copy has a name tag or StatTrak™ if that matters for you.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want a near-clean look with barely visible wear.
• Buyers looking for a sensible step down from Factory New.
• Conclusion: a clean look without chasing the top grade.