PP-Bizon | Brass (Minimal Wear)

This is the PP-Bizon | Brass in Minimal Wear (MW), the second wear from the top, right after Factory New. It is a Mil-Spec skin from The Dust 2 Collection. In CS2 it carries no pattern: the whole look rests on color and the shine of metal.

What the PP-Bizon | Brass looks like in Minimal Wear

The top of the weapon is trimmed in warm brass with a greenish olive cast and bright highlights. The brass covers the receiver with its row of oval holes, the handguard and the pistol grip. The rest is left bare: the helical magazine, the flash hider, the stock and the trigger guard are even dark gray metal.

The surface is smooth, mirror highlights gather along the ribs, and small factory markings can be made out on the receiver. There is no pattern at all, so Minimal Wear shows only in the condition of the metal itself, not in how a pattern wears away.

Where the PP-Bizon | Brass came from

The skin joined The Dust 2 Collection. Valve describes it in one line: part of the weapon is replaced with brass, fool's gold.

What to check before buying

On the PP-Bizon | Brass, it is worth comparing the following:

• float: it shows how close a copy sits to the upper or lower edge of the wear;


• what the previous owner left on the PP-Bizon | Brass, meaning stickers and an applied name tag.

On float you can go almost blind here: the band of 0.07 to 0.15 is tight.

What the PP-Bizon | Brass costs in Minimal Wear

Factory New costs 4.68 times more, and that is the biggest gap between wears. Below, the gaps are small: Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred are each roughly 1.3 to 1.4 times cheaper than Minimal Wear.

Among Mil-Spec Bizons in this wear, the skin sits exactly in the middle: five cost less, five cost more. Closest in price are Jungle Slipstream and Harvester, and slightly cheaper are RMX, Runic and Night Riot. The top of the row belongs to Modern Hunter, more than a hundred times dearer than Brass.

Getting the PP-Bizon | Brass

The skin has no regular case. Copies come from tournament Souvenir packages, among them the EMS One 2014 Souvenir Package. The PP-Bizon | Brass is also made by a contract of ten skins of the rank below, all from one collection.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The skin has no StatTrak version. A Souvenir version exists: tournament Souvenir packages hand it out, and such a copy can also be built through the Souvenir-O-Matic.

Stickers and craft on the PP-Bizon | Brass

Brass takes only the top half of the weapon, and the lower half stays dark gray. Stickers on the gray magazine and on the stock do not argue with the shine of the brass and read separately from it. Warm brass on the receiver holds gold and dark stickers well.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear on the PP-Bizon | Brass pays off when:

• you want a metal skin for CS2 without the factory premium: Factory New costs almost five times as much;


• you care about brass with bright highlights, not about a pattern;


• you do not need to pick by float: the spread within the wear is small.