Tec-9 | Blue Blast (Minimal Wear)

Minimal Wear (MW) on the Tec-9 | Blue Blast means light signs of use on the edges and a clean body otherwise. It is a Consumer Grade skin from The Ascent Collection, made for the terrorist side. The float for this wear of the Tec-9 | Blue Blast is 0.07 to 0.15.

What the Tec-9 | Blue Blast looks like in Minimal Wear

The magazine builds the contrast: it is gray-green, while everything around it is blue-teal or black. The top of the frame and the perforated barrel shroud are dark turquoise, almost emerald. The lower part and the grip are black. Small light blue dots are scattered over the frame, some of them by the ejection port. The edges of the holes in the shroud are finely painted.

In Minimal Wear the lightening starts at the shroud edge around the holes and then moves to the top of the frame. The dark base smooths wear out, so marks read softly, without sharp patches. The gray-green magazine and the black grip show scuffing least.

Where the Tec-9 | Blue Blast came from

There is no Steam Workshop submission for the Tec-9 | Blue Blast, because Valve drew it. The Ascent Collection was released in March 2025, and the skin has been part of it since launch. Its number in Valve's catalog is 1279. The collection is on the reward list of the weekly Care Package, which Valve announced in the notes for the spring update.

What to check before buying

These points matter when you choose a listing:

• the name tag and stickers, which stay on the listing of a Tec-9 | Blue Blast;


• a float inside 0.07 to 0.15, about a tenth of the skin's range;


• how the shroud edges look, since nearer 0.15 they are lighter.

The Tec-9 | Blue Blast has no pattern to draw, so all copies are identical. The 0.07 to 0.15 band is tight, and the outermost listings differ only by the number.

What the Tec-9 | Blue Blast costs in Minimal Wear

With Minimal Wear as the starting point, the other wears compare like this:

• Factory New is about a tenth cheaper;


• Field-Tested costs twice as much;


• Well-Worn costs nearly twice as much;


• Battle-Scarred costs the same, with a gap under 3%.

The usual rule that a cleaner wear costs more does not hold here. Factory New and Minimal Wear sit at the bottom, and the middle of the scale is twice as high. Among Consumer Grade Tec-9 finishes, Minimal Wear is level with Tec-9 | Groundwater and Tec-9 | Army Mesh. Tec-9 | Urban DDPAT costs nearly twice as much, and Tec-9 | Phoenix Chalk more than five times as much.

Getting the Tec-9 | Blue Blast

No case contains the Tec-9 | Blue Blast. The Ascent Collection is on the reward list of the weekly Care Package, and the pistol comes from there.

A trade-up cannot produce it, because there is no rank below Consumer Grade. It can go into one, though: ten Consumer Grade skins of a single collection return one Industrial Grade skin.

StatTrak and Souvenir

No StatTrak version of the Tec-9 | Blue Blast has been released. Souvenir copies exist, but there were no souvenir packages for this skin, since those were made only for tournament map collections. Such copies are built through the Souvenir-O-Matic, which puts gold tournament stickers and a player autograph on a regular skin from your inventory.

Stickers and craft on the Tec-9 | Blue Blast

There is no artwork on the frame, and both sides have room for a sticker. White, yellow and red stickers read on dark turquoise at once. Cool blues and greens disappear into it.

Who this wear suits

Buying the Tec-9 | Blue Blast in Minimal Wear is right if at least one of these applies:

• you want a frame without visible scuffs but do not want to pay extra for Factory New;


• it matters to take a copy from the start of the wear scale and not from the middle;


• the pistol goes into a CS2 inventory for a turquoise build.

The Minimal Wear band takes up about a tenth of the scale, so there is almost nothing to choose between listings by float. In CS2 the differences come down to price and stickers.