★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate (Minimal Wear)

The ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate comes in Minimal Wear (MW) as a Covert StatTrak butterfly knife for CS2. Two cases supply it: the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case. In this wear the counter version costs less than the regular one. The float runs from 0.07 to 0.15, which is 8% of the whole 0.00 to 1.00 scale.

What the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate looks like in Minimal Wear

A dark blade with a silvery bloom left by the stonewash treatment. Panels of light laminate with a beige-gray, camouflage-like pattern lie on the black handles. The holes and the parts of the mechanism are dark.

In this wear the knife has a narrow 0.07 to 0.15 band, and copies barely differ from one another. Wear is fixed to the knife from the moment of the drop.

Phase and pattern

The pattern is identical across copies. Listings can be told apart by float and by the number on the kill counter.

Where the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate came from

Valve announced Operation Riptide and its case on September 22, 2021.

What to check before buying

What to compare when choosing a ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate:

• the kill counter reading: it cannot be reset, and the StatTrak Swap Tool only exchanges the readings of two items of the same type;


• float: the stretch is short, so the number hardly matters;


• name tag: permitted, and the knife has no sticker slots.

What the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate costs in Minimal Wear

In this wear the counter version costs about five percent less than the regular one. Factory New costs 2.10 times as much, Field-Tested is level, Well-Worn is cheaper by a factor of 1.09 and Battle-Scarred by 1.08.

Among StatTrak Covert butterfly knives in Minimal Wear, the finish sits in the lower part of a row of twenty-three: five are cheaper and seventeen pricier. Freehand and Urban Masked stand above it, with Bright Water, Scorched and Boreal Forest below. The peak is Doppler Phase 1, Doppler Phase 2 and Gamma Doppler Emerald, and the floor is Forest DDPAT and Safari Mesh.

Getting the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate

The Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case are where this knife comes from. A craft builds a StatTrak knife only out of five StatTrak skins of one type and Covert rank.

StatTrak and the normal version

Without a counter there is the regular Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate, and in Minimal Wear it costs more than the StatTrak version. Souvenir skins are not made for knives at all.

Who this wear suits

The ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate in Minimal Wear is worth buying if:

• you want the counter, and the regular version costs more than the StatTrak copy;


• the butterfly knife should look cleaner than in Field-Tested at the same price;


• you need a StatTrak knife in dark colors with a narrow float band for your CS2 loadout.