M4A1-S | Emphorosaur-S (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The finish pairs a saturated green body with a torn-open side where a dinosaur's claws and scales break through the receiver. Minimal Wear keeps the whole artwork readable, and any marks are small and confined to outer edges. Next to a Factory New copy the difference shows mainly on close inspection.

Item type: rifle. The weapon is available only on the Counter-Terrorist side. Restricted sits in the middle of the rarity scale: noticeably rarer than Mil-Spec, yet not truly rare.

Custom Paint Job: hand-painted across the whole body; this is the type where wear shows most, the artwork rubs down to metal.

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The silencer, barrel, handguard and stock are painted bright green, and red-brown slash marks run along the top of the silencer and handguard like claw scratches. The red-brown carry handle sits above the main feature: a section of the receiver side drawn as torn open, with a dinosaur's claws and yellow-and-dark scaled skin pushing through.

Light marks can appear at the silencer tip and on the outer edges of the magazine. The receiver artwork, handguard and stock stay clean. At normal viewing distance in game it looks almost the same as Factory New.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of M4A1-S | Emphorosaur-S is 0–0.8; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (10% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

M4A1-S | Emphorosaur-S belongs to The Revolution Collection, which holds 17 skins.

It drops from Revolution Case.

What it costs in each quality

Taking Minimal Wear as the baseline:

• Factory New — 2.5× dearer
• Field-Tested — 1.6× cheaper
• Well-Worn — 1.7× cheaper
• Battle-Scarred — 1.9× cheaper

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

Among 11 skins of the M4A1-S in the Restricted grade and this quality, this skin ranks 10th by price, counting from the dearest.

StatTrak™ and Souvenir

There is also a the StatTrak™ version: the counter on the weapon tracks kills. Right now it is 2.4× dearer than the regular one. There is also a the Souvenir version with tournament stickers.

Stickers and crafts

Green, yellow and red-brown stickers continue the rifle's palette, and stickers with creatures, teeth or claws match the dinosaur theme. Placing them on the green handguard keeps the torn-open receiver artwork visible.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear range, since copies near the lower end of a grade keep more paint on the silencer and magazine.
• Look at the silencer tip, carry handle and magazine edges in the inspect view, as these lose paint first.
• Make sure the torn-open receiver artwork with the dinosaur's claws is intact on worn copies, because it carries the theme of the skin.
• Check applied stickers and the name tag, and decide whether you are after a StatTrak™ or Souvenir version.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a nearly clean look but are fine with minor marks on edges.
• Sticker crafters looking for a clean-looking base at a lower grade than Factory New.
• A sensible middle ground between condition and cost.