★ Nomad Knife | Night Stripe (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The Nomad Knife in Night Stripe carries diagonal bands of dark blue-grey over a lighter slate base, with a matching coat on the handle. In Minimal Wear the finish looks almost untouched in hand, with only faint marks near the tip and the cutting edge. It gives the same calm, tactical look as the cleanest grade at a less demanding condition.

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.

Other qualities of this skin: Factory New, Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred.

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The broad blade is coated in a pale slate blue with wide diagonal bands of darker navy grey running across it, and the unpainted cutting edge forms a thin bright line along the belly. The bolster and pivot area take the same blue-grey tone, with the dark stripes continuing over the handle frame and its row of holes.

Small scuffs may appear at the very tip and along the edge of the bevel. The stripes on the flat of the blade and the handle stay intact. At normal viewing distance the knife looks practically the same as Factory New. Low-float copies are the hardest to tell apart from the cleanest grade.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The float of ★ Nomad Knife | Night Stripe ranges from 0.06 to 0.8; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 11% of this skin’s scale. The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Where the skin comes from: collection and case

It drops as a rare special item from:

• Shattered Web Case
• Fracture Case

Price by quality

Among 17 skins of the Nomad Knife in the Covert grade and this quality, this skin ranks 13th by price, counting from the dearest.

StatTrak™ version

This skin has a the StatTrak™ version with a kill counter. Right now it is 30% dearer than the regular one.

What to check before buying

• Check where the float sits within the grade, since low and high floats of the same wear look noticeably different on this spray-paint finish.
• Inspect the tip, the cutting edge and the spine, because these areas lose paint first.
• Look at how the dark stripes fall across the blade, as the pattern placement changes from copy to copy.
• Confirm whether the copy is StatTrak™ and whether it carries a name tag you want to keep.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a near-pristine look without chasing the narrow top grade.
• Owners of muted, tactical-themed inventories looking for a matching knife.
• A sensible balance between appearance and condition.