★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Slaughter (Minimal Wear)

The ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Slaughter in Minimal Wear (MW) is a red butterfly knife with zebra stripes and a kill counter, of Covert rank with the ★ mark. The wear band of 0.07 to 0.15 takes about a third of the finish's scale, which runs from 0.01 to 0.26. In CS2 this knife drops from the Operation Breakout Weapon Case.

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

The blade is red, crossed by dark diagonal stripes. The handles are black, with a red stripe down each half, and the latch is red too. The color and the stripes are the same on every copy, and only the condition of the surface changes.

In Minimal Wear the marks on the lacquer are shallow and visible only up close. Wear is set at the drop, and the knife does not wear down over time.

What to check before buying

When choosing a ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Slaughter listing, this matters:

• float: the 0.07 to 0.15 band is tight, and the extreme listings differ only in the number;


• counter reading: it stays with the knife, so look at the number in the listing itself;


• name tag: the text applied to the knife passes to the buyer.

Stickers cannot be applied to knives.

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

Factory New costs 1.2 times as much, while Field-Tested differs by only 3 percent. The StatTrak version costs about a tenth more than the regular one.

Of twenty-three Covert StatTrak butterfly knives priced in this wear, Slaughter stands in the top four by price: four cost more and eighteen cost less. Tiger Tooth is almost level, Crimson Web is lower by about a tenth, and Case Hardened and Blue Steel are lower still. Highest are Doppler Phase 1, Doppler Phase 2 and Gamma Doppler Emerald.

Getting the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Slaughter

There is a single case, the Operation Breakout Weapon Case, and the StatTrak version comes from the same place. A craft takes five StatTrak skins of Covert rank with no regular ones mixed in, and the result is a random item with the ★ mark, with no choice involved.

StatTrak and Souvenir

If you want a knife without a counter, look for the regular Slaughter, which is sold as a separate item. Knives have no Souvenir version. A StatTrak reading cannot be reset: the StatTrak Swap Tool only exchanges the values of two items of the same type.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear is a sensible choice for the ★ StatTrak™ Butterfly Knife | Slaughter when:

• you want a red butterfly knife with a counter, and Factory New is out of budget;


• it matters that the lacquer is almost clean, even though Field-Tested costs practically the same;


• your CS2 loadout is built on red and black.