M4A4 | Evil Daimyo (Minimal Wear)

This is the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo in Minimal Wear (MW), and the band is narrow: 0.07 to 0.15, which is 15% of the finish's scale. It is a Restricted skin, a Counter-Terrorist M4A4 from The Falchion Collection.

What the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo looks like in Minimal Wear

The rifle is red and gray with a large faceted pattern. The red is saturated and dark cherry in places, broken up by gray and graphite facets. The stock is red with gray inserts, the handguard is dark, and the magazine is red and gray. The receiver side carries a red star.

In MW the scuffing is only hinted at: a few facet tips on the edge of the receiver and stock turn pale. The pattern stays readable as a whole and the star is intact. Wear is set at the drop, and the copy does not change afterward.

Where the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo came from

The M4A4 | Evil Daimyo was released on May 28, 2015. Its author is The Honey Badger, and its number in Valve's catalog is 480. The release fell on Operation Bloodhound, when Valve added the Falchion Case, filled with community work, along with the Falchion Knife.

What to check before buying

Before paying for an M4A4 | Evil Daimyo, it helps to check:

• float: the 0.07 to 0.15 band is narrow, and near its lower edge the facet tips are cleaner;


• the red star on the receiver and the facets around it;


• what a previous owner left on the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo, meaning stickers and an applied name tag.

The faceted pattern repeats on every M4A4 | Evil Daimyo, so there is no pattern to choose from. Within such a tight band, copies look almost the same.

What the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo costs in Minimal Wear

The other wears, measured against Minimal Wear:

• Factory New costs 1.6 times as much;


• Well-Worn costs 1.4 times less;


• Field-Tested costs 1.7 times less;


• Battle-Scarred costs 1.6 times less.

Among Restricted M4A4 skins in this wear, three cost less: the M4A4 | Etch Lord, M4A4 | Sheet Lightning and M4A4 | Turbine. Above it stand the M4A4 | Griffin, M4A4 | Polysoup, M4A4 | Red DDPAT, M4A4 | Modern Hunter and M4A4 | Daybreak.

Getting the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo

The M4A4 | Evil Daimyo comes out of the Falchion Case; no other case contains it.

The other route is a trade-up contract of ten skins of the rank below. Their collections need not match: the result is tied to the collection of one of them. Ten skins from the Falchion Collection keep the result inside that collection, which holds five Restricted skins.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The M4A4 | Evil Daimyo has a StatTrak version. No Souvenir packages were ever made for this finish: they existed only for tournament map collections. You can still build a souvenir copy yourself through the Souvenir-O-Matic.

Stickers and craft on the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo

In MW the paint on the facets is intact, so stickers on the stock land on a clean surface. The gray patches of the stock suit red stickers, while light ones stand out against the red. The handguard is dark and even.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear on the M4A4 | Evil Daimyo makes sense when:

• you want an M4A4 for CS2 where the facets and the star read without visible scuffs;


• the price gap to Factory New is noticeable while the look is almost the same;


• you choose the skin by a float close to 0.07.