★ Karambit | Slaughter (Minimal Wear)

This is the ★ Karambit | Slaughter in Minimal Wear (MW), and its price sits level with Field-Tested (FT) even though its float is lower. Factory New costs 1.23 times as much, and the finish has only three wears. Its rank is Covert, with the ★ mark, and in CS2 it is a karambit with a red-and-white blade.

What the ★ Karambit | Slaughter looks like in Minimal Wear

A pale blade is streaked with red and pink swirls that run from the tip to the handle. The ring is red and glossy, and the handle is dark gray and ribbed, with ridges for the fingers. Valve calls the pattern zebra-striped and mentions aluminum and chrome paints.

The float band of the ★ Karambit | Slaughter in this wear runs from 0.07 to 0.15. That band is tight, and the extreme listings differ only in the number. Above it remains Field-Tested with the stretch from 0.15 to 0.26, and the finish wears no further than that. Wear is fixed at the drop.

What to check before buying

These are the parameters to check in a ★ Karambit | Slaughter listing:

• float: from 0.07 to 0.15, and the number decides which listing is cleaner;


• name on the knife: look at it in the listing itself;


• StatTrak: the version with a counter is priced separately.

What the ★ Karambit | Slaughter costs in Minimal Wear

Among thirty Covert karambits priced in Minimal Wear, Slaughter is in the middle: fifteen finishes cost less and fourteen cost more. Crimson Web is higher by thirteen percent, Tiger Tooth by seven, Case Hardened is almost level, and Blue Steel and Lore are cheaper. The most affordable are Safari Mesh, Forest DDPAT and Boreal Forest, and at the top are Gamma Doppler Phase 3, Doppler Sapphire and Gamma Doppler Emerald.

Between wears the prices diverge like this:

• Factory New costs 1.23 times as much;


• Field-Tested is level, with a difference of under three percent.

Getting the ★ Karambit | Slaughter

Slaughter is found in eleven cases, among them the Revolver Case, the Operation Phoenix Weapon Case and the eSports 2013 Winter Case. The wear is set when the case is opened. The second route is a craft: you put in five Covert skins of one type, and regular and StatTrak are not mixed. The game hands out a random rare special item. Model and finish cannot be chosen.

Is there a StatTrak version

The ★ Karambit | Slaughter also comes in a StatTrak version.

Who this wear suits

There are three reasons to buy this wear of the ★ Karambit | Slaughter:

• Factory New costs 1.23 times as much, and the red-and-white look is the same;


• Field-Tested costs the same, but Minimal Wear has the lower float;


• the 0.07 to 0.15 band is narrow, so choosing between listings takes almost no effort.