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Skin overview
This Black Pearl Gut Knife keeps the same dark marbled blade, with its blue-black base and bright violet streaks. Minimal Wear covers only a narrow slice at the top of this skin's float range, so the difference from Factory New is hard to spot without inspecting the blade up close. Buyers who care about the phase more than a perfect float can find their way into it here.
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.
The remaining qualities of this skin: Factory New.
How the skin looks in Minimal Wear
The finish covers the blade, from the gut hook and serrated spine down to the tip, in a marbled mix of black and deep blue. Lighter violet and silver veins run through the darker areas, and the polished edge bevels catch the light as thin bright outlines.
Minimal Wear can bring a few faint scratches to the blade, most often near the tip or along the cutting edge. On the dark Black Pearl base such marks are subtle and tend to show only when the light hits the blade at an angle during inspect. At normal distance in game the knife looks practically the same as Factory New. The rest of the blade, the grip and the fittings stay clean.
Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.08
The whole float range of ★ Gut Knife | Doppler Black Pearl is 0–0.08; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.08 segment (12% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.
Origin of the skin
It drops as a rare special item from:
- Chroma Case (on sale since Jan 8, 2015)
- Chroma 2 Case (on sale since Apr 15, 2015)
- Chroma 3 Case
StatTrak™ version
There is also a the StatTrak™ version: the counter on the weapon tracks kills.
What to look at before you buy
- Make sure the listing really is the Black Pearl phase and not another Doppler phase with a dark blade.
- Check where the float sits within the range, since Minimal Wear copies sit right next to Factory New.
- Inspect the tip and the cutting edge, where the first scratches usually show.
- See whether the copy is StatTrak™ or carries a name tag, if that matters to you.
Who should buy Minimal Wear
- Players who want the Black Pearl phase and accept faint marks visible only up close.
- Buyers who value the phase itself above the wear grade.
- Conclusion: a sensible way into this phase with almost no visual compromise in game.
