★ M9 Bayonet | Gamma Doppler Emerald (Minimal Wear)

Minimal Wear (MW) on the ★ M9 Bayonet | Gamma Doppler Emerald is the entire top of the finish's scale, because the finish is not made above 0.08. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. The knife drops from the Gamma Case and the Gamma 2 Case. The second and last wear available is Factory New.

What the ★ M9 Bayonet | Gamma Doppler Emerald looks like in Minimal Wear

Green covers the whole face of the blade, the saw on the spine, the guard and the ring; only the wrapped-look handle stays gray. Dark emerald runs hold near the spine and the hole, while toward the edge the green is light, almost lime. In MW the cutting edge and the saw teeth have already lightened, and the guard's lug follows. In Factory New these bare spots are not there yet, and that is the whole visible difference between the two wears.

The stretch of the scale here is 0.07 to 0.08. On the ★ M9 Bayonet | Gamma Doppler Emerald the spread is so small that choosing by float makes no sense. The top of the stretch is set not by the standard limit of the wear but by the finish's own ceiling.

Where the ★ M9 Bayonet | Gamma Doppler Emerald came from

Valve drew the finish itself, and no Steam Workshop submission exists for it. The release date is June 15, 2016, the update was called Gamma Exposure, and the first Gamma Case arrived in CS2 with it. The finish's number in the Valve catalog is 568. The Gamma 2 Case was added later and became a second source of the same knives.

Phase and pattern

For Gamma Doppler the phase is rolled when the knife drops. In the store it already stands in the item name: Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3, Phase 4 or Emerald. Gems in CS2 are precisely the rare variants of two finishes at once. For Gamma Doppler that variant is Emerald, while Ruby, Sapphire and Black Pearl belong exclusively to Doppler.

Copies of one phase are told apart by pattern index, which decides how green, turquoise and black lie across the blade. Sources contradict each other about a premium for pattern inside a gem, so it is best left out of the calculation.

What to check before buying

What separates one ★ M9 Bayonet | Gamma Doppler Emerald listing from another:

• the phase in the name: Emerald has its own page, and the ordinary phases do not land on it;


• the float: the spread inside MW is minimal, but the number is still checked;


• the applied name: the knife takes a name tag, and someone else's text stays on the item;


• the version: a StatTrak™ listing is a separate entry.

What the ★ M9 Bayonet | Gamma Doppler Emerald costs in Minimal Wear

In this wear Emerald is the priciest finish of the M9 Bayonet in the whole Covert rank, first from the top of twenty-eight. The nearest below it is M9 Bayonet | Doppler Sapphire. Further down, with a wide gap, come M9 Bayonet | Gamma Doppler Phase 1 and M9 Bayonet | Gamma Doppler Phase 2, and M9 Bayonet | Fade closes the group. Factory New costs about a tenth more, and that is the whole price of a clean edge.

Getting the ★ M9 Bayonet | Gamma Doppler Emerald

Cases deliver the knife as a rare ★ item with a random phase and a random float, so aiming for MW is pointless. A craft is built from five Covert skins of one collection and also returns a random knife or gloves. That is why the combination of phase and wear you want is bought as a finished listing.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The ★ M9 Bayonet | Gamma Doppler Emerald has a StatTrak™ version; no Souvenir release was ever made.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear on the ★ M9 Bayonet | Gamma Doppler Emerald is worth buying when:

• a light edge and bare spots on the saw teeth do not get in the way of your set;


• you want the top of the model's Covert rank without paying extra for Factory New;


• the green blade goes with a gray steel handle rather than a colorful set.