★ Karambit | Stained (Minimal Wear)

Minimal Wear (MW) on the ★ Karambit | Stained is a narrow slice of the scale, 0.07 to 0.15, about eight percent of the 0.00 to 1.00 range. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. In CS2 this karambit sits in eleven cases, from the CS:GO Weapon Case to the Revolver Case.

What the ★ Karambit | Stained looks like in Minimal Wear

A pale blade of almost white metal with clouds of gray-blue patina, and a cool gray handle with fine texturing. The ring is gray. By Valve's description the patina is applied by hand: lemon and mustard.

Minimal Wear keeps the streaks readable, since the metal is barely touched. Wear is set when the knife drops, and it stays exactly as it dropped.

What to check before buying

Pick a listing by these signs:

• float: in this wear the band is tight, 0.07 to 0.15, and differences between listings are hard to catch;


• how dense the gray-blue streaks are across the flat of the blade;


• name on the knife: a name tag is allowed.

What the ★ Karambit | Stained costs in Minimal Wear

Factory New costs 1.6 times as much. Field-Tested and Well-Worn are cheaper by a factor of 1.11, Battle-Scarred by 1.19.

Among thirty karambits priced in this wear, Stained sits in the lower quarter of the ladder: only seven cost less, and twenty-two cost more. Ultraviolet, Damascus Steel and Night are higher by two to three percent. Freehand is lower by about a seventh, Bright Water by about a sixth. Safari Mesh, Forest DDPAT and Boreal Forest are the cheapest.

Getting the ★ Karambit | Stained

The sources are many: eleven cases, from the CS:GO Weapon Cases to the Revolver Case. A craft offers another path. Five Covert skins of one type, all normal or all StatTrak, yield a random rare special item, with no say over model or finish.

Is there a StatTrak version

The ★ Karambit | Stained is also made with StatTrak.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear on the ★ Karambit | Stained makes sense in three cases:

• you want readable gray-blue streaks on a pale blade;


• you need a step above Field-Tested, though the gap is small, around ten percent;


• your CS2 loadout is built on pale and gray tones.