★ Shadow Daggers | Autotronic (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The Autotronic finish is built on contrast: bright red handles with open cutouts against darker steel edges. In Minimal Wear that contrast is intact, with only faint marks that are hard to find without zooming in. It keeps nearly the full look of the cleanest grade at a more reasonable level.

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

Gunsmith: several techniques combined on one item; some parts rub off, others only dull.

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

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The handles of both daggers are anodized in a bright red with open cutouts and pointed wings, carrying a small dark emblem near the base. Each blade has a dark grey, slightly textured bevel running along both edges and the tip, with a red inlay on the flat that continues the colour of the handle.

Tiny specks may appear on the outer rims of the handle cutouts and the tips of the wings. The blade inlays, mesh discs and emblem still look untouched. At normal viewing distance the knife is practically indistinguishable from a Factory New copy. Higher floats in this grade can show the first marks a little more clearly on the handle edges.

Minimal Wear wear: float 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of ★ Shadow Daggers | Autotronic is 0–0.85; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (9% of the scale). The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Origin of the skin

It drops as a rare special item from:

• Operation Riptide Case
• Dreams & Nightmares Case

What it costs in each quality

By price this skin is 16th of 23 skins Covert Shadow Daggers 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 44% dearer than the regular one.

What to check before buying

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, since the red shows wear quickly and a low float looks noticeably cleaner.
• Inspect the rims of the handle cutouts and the wing tips, as these are the first places the red wears off.
• Look at the border between the red blade inlay and the grey bevel for chipping.
• Check whether the knife is StatTrak™ and whether it carries a name tag you are comfortable with.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want a near-clean look without paying for the top grade.
• Buyers who inspect often but do not mind barely visible marks.
• A sensible balance between appearance and cost.