★ Butterfly Knife | Slaughter (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

This wear of ★ Butterfly Knife | Slaughter keeps the recognisable red striped blade and the black-and-red handles almost unchanged. Any marks are small and sit mostly near the tip and cutting edge, where a thin line of silver can show through the red. For most buyers it looks the same as the cleanest grade in the first-person view while costing less to get into.

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

Anodized Multicolored: several colours in the metal coating; it wears little, the colours only dull with use.

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The blade carries the main artwork: angular zebra stripes in several shades of red, from bright tomato to a darker wine tone, all under a glossy candy coat that lets the metallic base shine through. A lighter silver strip runs along the edge and spine, separating the red field from the steel.

Small specks of bare metal can appear right at the tip and in short stretches along the cutting edge. The stripe pattern on the flat of the blade remains clean and fully coloured. Handles and inlays show no visible change. At normal distance and in most inspect animations the knife looks practically identical to a clean copy.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of ★ Butterfly Knife | Slaughter is 0.01–0.26; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (32% 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 — 18% dearer
• Field-Tested — 4% dearer

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

By price this skin is 6th of 23 skins Covert Butterfly Knife in this quality (the first being the dearest).

StatTrak™ version

There is also a the StatTrak™ version: the counter on the weapon tracks kills. Right now it is 17% dearer than the regular one.

What to look at before you buy

• Look at where the stripes fall on the blade, because the pattern placement differs between copies and some layouts are valued more by collectors.
• Check the tip and the cutting edge first, as that is where bare metal appears on worn copies.
• Compare float within the wear range, since a low float in Field-Tested can look close to Minimal Wear.
• Decide whether you need StatTrak™, as the skin exists in that version too.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want the near-clean look at a lower entry point than the top grade.
• Buyers who rarely zoom in on the tip during inspects.
• A balanced pick that keeps almost all of the visual appeal.