★ Talon Knife | Night Stripe (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

This Talon Knife carries a cold, low-contrast camouflage of angled dark blue and grey stripes over a slate base. In Minimal Wear the scheme looks almost untouched in hand, with only faint marks near the tip and the spine teeth on close inspection. It is the grade where most buyers get a near-clean look without hunting for the rarer Factory New copies.

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.

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The whole knife is painted in a matte slate blue base with broad diagonal bands of deep navy and lighter grey-blue, applied with a tape mask so the stripe edges run straight across the surface. On the curved blade the stripes cross from spine to edge, while a thin bare steel bevel follows the cutting edge.

Light scratches can appear at the blade tip and on the points of the spine teeth. The stripes and their edges remain sharp everywhere else, including the full grip and ring. At normal inspect distance the knife looks practically the same as Factory New. Lower floats in this grade are hard to tell apart from a clean copy.

Minimal Wear wear: float 0.07–0.15

The float of ★ Talon 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. 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:

• Horizon Case
• Danger Zone Case

Price by quality

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

• Factory New — 3.1× dearer
• Field-Tested — 19% cheaper
• Well-Worn — 18% cheaper
• Battle-Scarred — 18% cheaper

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

By price this skin is 13th of 17 skins Covert Talon 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 33% dearer than the regular one.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, since paint loss on the blade tip and spine teeth grows quickly in the worn grades.
• Inspect the tip, the cutting edge and the saw-tooth spine first, as these parts lose paint before anything else.
• Look at how the stripes fall across the blade, because the tape-mask placement can differ between copies.
• Note whether the knife is StatTrak™ or carries a name tag, and decide if that matters to you.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want a near-clean look without paying for the rarer Factory New grade.
• Buyers who inspect the knife often and want the stripes to stay sharp.
• Conclusion: a sensible balance of clean appearance and availability.