★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The knife keeps its recognisable look in Minimal Wear: a mottled grey blade, a dark spine and black slotted handles framing the laminate. Any marks are faint and sit on the edges of the handles, which rarely draw attention even during the inspect animation. It gives almost the same picture as the cleanest grade at a lower step.

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.

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The blade has a stonewashed finish: mottled grey steel with darker clouding and a brighter polished edge, topped by a black spine and black serrations near the pivot. Both handles are black with round cutouts along their length, and the open slots show inlays of layered laminate in grey, white and near-black stripes.

Tiny scratches may appear on the outer edges of the handles and at the tip of the spine. The cutouts, inlays and blade remain clean. At normal viewing distance the difference from Factory New is hard to spot. Close inspection is the only way to see the marks.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The float of ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate ranges from 0 to 1; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 8% 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 as a rare special item from:

• Operation Riptide Case
• Dreams & Nightmares Case

Price by quality

Compared with the Minimal Wear quality, the others go like this:

• Factory New — 1.9× dearer
• Field-Tested — 7% cheaper
• Well-Worn — 9% cheaper
• Battle-Scarred — 16% cheaper

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

Among 23 skins of the Butterfly Knife in the Covert grade and this quality, this skin ranks 17th by price, counting from the dearest.

StatTrak™ version

This is the StatTrak™ version: the counter on the weapon shows confirmed kills. There is also the regular version without the counter. Right now the StatTrak™ version is 2% dearer than the regular one.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, since a low float in Field-Tested or Minimal Wear keeps the handle edges noticeably cleaner.
• Look at the handle edges and the rims of the cutouts in the inspect view, as this is where the black coating goes first.
• Check the laminate inlays for scuffs on more worn copies, because they carry the skin's main contrast.
• Note whether the copy is StatTrak™ and whether it has a name tag.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a near-perfect look without paying for the top grade.
• Buyers who do not mind faint marks visible only up close.
• A sensible balance between appearance and cost.