M4A1-S | Decimator (Minimal Wear)

In Minimal Wear (MW) the M4A1-S | Decimator takes only 9 percent of the finish's scale, and the price here is clearly above Field-Tested (FT). It is a Classified skin from The Spectrum Collection. The floats run from 0.07 to 0.15, a narrow stretch in CS2.

What the M4A1-S | Decimator looks like in Minimal Wear

The rifle is painted in two zones. Dark blue, close to black, covers the upper receiver, the handguard and the carry handle, with fine turquoise lines on the ribs. Below and in front comes raspberry-pink: the front half of the suppressor, the grip, the magazine, and the stock with its butt plate. The border between the zones is blurred. The barrel is dark, and the flats carry no artwork and no perspective grid.

Wear is slight in Minimal Wear, and scuffs show at the edges. The butt plate and the base of the magazine lighten before anything else, and the turquoise lines on the handguard ribs dull after them. Wear is set at the drop, and a copy at float 0.10 stays that way.

Where the M4A1-S | Decimator came from

The author, Coridium, posted the submission "M4A1-S - DECIMATOR 2000" in the Workshop on March 10, 2016. In his words, the finish pulls together much of what he liked about the eighties. The M4A1-S | Decimator entered the game in March 2017 together with The Spectrum Collection. Valve describes it as painted in radical blue and pink tones and calls it quiet retrofuturism. Its number in the catalog is 644.

What to check before buying

When buying an M4A1-S | Decimator, these points count:

• float: in this wear the band is a narrow 0.07 to 0.15, and the copies hardly differ from one another;


• any name tag or stickers already on this M4A1-S;


• pattern: the artwork is fixed and does not depend on the copy.

What the M4A1-S | Decimator costs in Minimal Wear

Factory New costs 1.92 times as much as Minimal Wear. Field-Tested is cheaper by 1.51 times, Well-Worn by 1.30 times, Battle-Scarred by 1.44 times. The narrow band explains the premium over the lower wears.

Among Classified M4A1-S finishes with a price in this wear, the finish sits nearer the bottom half of fourteen: five cheaper, eight dearer. Guardian costs half again as much, Nightmare a little over a fifth more, Party Animal a fifth less, Leaded Glass and Stratosphere roughly two fifths less. Master Piece is nearly nine times dearer, and Blue Phosphor and Hot Rod tens of times.

Getting the M4A1-S | Decimator

Trade-up gets the M4A1-S | Decimator too: ten Restricted skins from anywhere, with the result coming from the collection of one of the inputs. If the ten are all from The Spectrum Collection, the result points to that set, and that is the player's decision. The main route is the Spectrum Case.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The M4A1-S | Decimator has a StatTrak version, while no Souvenir packages carry the finish.

Stickers and craft on the M4A1-S | Decimator

The gradient splits the rifle into a blue half and a raspberry half, and a sticker behaves differently on each. For a sticker setup in CS2 that gives two backgrounds. On the dark blue handguard stickers look contrasting, and on the pink grip and magazine cool shades separate from the background.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear makes sense for the M4A1-S | Decimator when:

• you want the neon fill without obvious scuffs on the butt plate and the magazine;


• the 0.07 to 0.15 band is narrow, so choosing between listings by number is hardly needed;


• Factory New costs nearly twice as much, and the lower wears show more wear.