★ Butterfly Knife | Scorched (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

This Scorched Butterfly Knife keeps the same muted mix of black, grey and sand tones that defines the finish. Minimal Wear is the practical grade for buyers who want a clean-looking knife: any marks are small and sit mostly near the blade edge and tip. In hand the finish looks almost identical to a fresh copy.

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

Spray-Paint: paint sprayed over the metal; scratches and scuffs appear early but look natural.

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The blade is covered in irregular spray blotches of charcoal black, mid grey and pale sand, with a lighter streak usually crossing the middle and darker patches near the spine and tip. Both handles carry the same palette, mostly dark with long tan streaks running along their length, and the round cut-outs break up the surface.

Minimal Wear may show tiny specks of bare steel along the blade edge and at the tip. The rest of the blade and the handles keep full paint coverage. At normal viewing distance the difference from Factory New is hard to notice. The handle edges and cut-outs remain clean.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The float of ★ Butterfly Knife | Scorched ranges from 0.06 to 0.8; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 11% of this skin’s scale. Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Where the skin comes from: collection and case

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

Price by quality

Taking Minimal Wear as the baseline:

• Factory New — 2× dearer
• Field-Tested — 12% cheaper
• Well-Worn — 12% cheaper
• Battle-Scarred — 14% cheaper

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

By price this skin is 20th 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 lower values keep more paint on the blade edge and tip.
• Look at how the dark and light blotches fall on the blade, as the pattern placement changes how dark or pale a copy looks.
• On worn grades inspect the blade edge, spine and handle cut-outs, where bare steel appears first.
• Check for a name tag and decide whether you want it, since it stays with the item.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want a clean-looking knife without paying for the narrow Factory New band.
• Buyers who rarely inspect the blade closely and care about the overall look.
• A sensible balance between condition and cost.