M4A4 | Evil Daimyo (Field-Tested)

The M4A4 | Evil Daimyo in Field-Tested (FT) still has the large facets on the receiver sides intact, while the edges are already turning pale. The wear covers the band from 0.15 to 0.38. It is a Restricted skin that comes from the Falchion Case.

What the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo looks like in Field-Tested

The pattern is built from large flat facets, like shards: red and gray pieces meet on the receiver and the stock. The red is saturated, in places sliding into dark cherry, and gray and graphite facets break it up. The handguard is dark gray, the stock is red with gray inserts, and the magazine is held to the same palette. A red star sits on the side of the receiver. The facet borders are crisp, with no blending, and no small lettering can be seen on this M4A4.

Wear shows especially on a faceted pattern: the peaks of the facets along the edges of the receiver and stock turn pale. The flat planes on the sides keep their color, and the star stays whole. Inside 0.15 to 0.38 the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo changes visibly to the eye, so you pick a listing by its number.

Where the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo came from

The finish was drawn by an artist who goes by The Honey Badger, and Valve's catalog lists it as number 480. The Falchion Collection was added to the game on May 26, 2015. In the launch note for the operation, Valve counted sixteen community works in the case plus a chance at the falchion knife itself. Only that operation's case gave out the knife.

What to check before buying

When choosing a listing of the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo, this is what matters:

• float: at 0.15 the edges are almost even, and toward 0.38 the facet peaks turn pale across the board;


• the state of the red star on the side, since a flat plane lasts longer than the edges;


• whether this M4A4 | Evil Daimyo carries stickers and a name tag.

The pattern on the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo does not vary, and all copies are the same.

What the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo costs in Field-Tested

The gap to the neighboring wears looks like this:

• Factory New comes in at two and a half times the price;


• Minimal Wear costs roughly half again as much;


• Well-Worn costs about a tenth more;


• Battle-Scarred costs about a sixth more.

The three worn wears sit close together, and the two lowest even cost more than Field-Tested. The order among them does not follow the wear, so there is no reason to pay extra for the wear label here.

Among Restricted M4A4 skins, the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo in this wear is fifth by price of eleven: four finishes cost less and six cost more. The nearest below, the M4A4 | Griffin, is about a tenth cheaper, and the M4A4 | Spider Lily costs two and a third times as much. The top of the rank is far away: the M4A4 | Daybreak costs more than a hundred times as much.

Getting the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo

The first route is the Falchion Case, and no other case holds this finish.

To trade up into the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo, you gather ten skins from one rank below out of the same collection.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A StatTrak version of the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo exists. Souvenir copies of the finish turn up as well, though no packages were ever issued for it: those were made only for tournament map collections. Such copies are built with the Souvenir-O-Matic, which puts gold tournament stickers and a player autograph on an ordinary skin from the inventory.

Stickers and craft on the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo

The background is busy here: the facets fight any sticker that has geometry of its own. Dark stickers sit calmest on the graphite pieces of the handguard and stock. Red logos dissolve into the cherry facets, and on rubbed peaks part of a sticker comes off with the paint. A large mark belongs on a flat plane of the side, next to the star, and not on an edge.

Who this wear suits

The M4A4 | Evil Daimyo in Field-Tested is worth choosing when:

• you want a red-and-gray M4A4 in CS2 without paying extra for clean edges;


• choosing by float matters, since the look changes noticeably inside the band;


• the more worn wears do not please you by looks, yet barely differ in price.

Near 0.15 the facets along the edges are still even, and at 0.38 almost every peak has turned pale. In CS2 the pattern is recognizable at any float: it is held by the large planes, not by small details.