M4A4 | Evil Daimyo (Factory New)

The M4A4 | Evil Daimyo in Factory New (FN) is the most expensive of the skin's five wears. Its float band runs from 0.00 to 0.07, which is 13% of a scale that ends at 0.52 for this finish. The skin ranks Restricted and belongs to The Falchion Collection.

What the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo looks like in Factory New

Red and gray, cut into facets. The red is saturated and turns dark cherry in places, while gray and graphite planes break it into big flat fragments. One red star is printed on the receiver side. The handguard is dark gray, the stock is red with gray inserts, and the magazine is red and gray. Facet borders are crisp with no feathering, and there is no small lettering. Valve describes the finish as a graphic design in red and black.

In Factory New the facet tips along the edges of the receiver and stock are clean. Those are the spots where paint pales first on more worn copies, and scuffs read most clearly on a faceted pattern. This look is set when the item drops and will not change.

Where the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo came from

The Honey Badger is the author of the finish. The skin arrived on May 28, 2015, when The Falchion Collection was added to the game. A Valve note of that same day says the Falchion Weapons Case holds one of 16 community finishes and a Falchion knife. In Valve's catalog the finish carries number 480.

What to check before buying

This wear spans floats 0.00 to 0.07, a narrow slice, so copies are nearly impossible to tell apart. Listings are worth comparing on two points:

• whatever stickers and name tag this particular copy already wears;


• float: the lower it sits in the band, the crisper the facet edges.

No pattern index to chase, either: every copy carries the same artwork.

What the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo costs in Factory New

Measured against Factory New, Minimal Wear is one and a half times cheaper and Well-Worn a little over two times cheaper. Battle-Scarred is two and a half times cheaper, and Field-Tested almost three.

Only Etch Lord and Sheet Lightning sit below it among the eleven priced Restricted M4A4 finishes in this wear; eight sit above. Spider Lily costs six times as much, Polysoup two and a half times, Turbine a quarter more. The dearest are Red DDPAT, Daybreak and Modern Hunter.

Getting the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo

The skin sits in the Falchion Case. Trade-up is the second route. The contract takes ten skins one rank down, drawn from any collections, and what comes out belongs to the collection of one of the inputs. Taking all ten from The Falchion Collection is the player's choice, and it steers the result to that collection.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The M4A4 | Evil Daimyo has a StatTrak version in CS2. No Souvenir packages exist for it, but you can build a Souvenir copy yourself through the Souvenir-O-Matic.

Stickers and craft on the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo

The large facets and the red star give the artwork accents of its own, so neutral stickers suit it best: white, black, gray. The gray handguard takes any sticker, while the red stock swallows red ones.

Who this wear suits

Factory New makes sense for the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo when:

• you want the red-and-gray faceted finish with no scuffing on the facets;


• the lowest float the skin offers matters to you;


• a price at the top of the wear scale does not bother you.