Tec-9 | Red Quartz (Minimal Wear)

The Tec-9 | Red Quartz in Minimal Wear (MW) covers the stretch of the scale from 0.07 to 0.15, a fifth of the skin's whole scale. It is a Restricted skin from The Train Collection, on the Terrorist side, and in CS2 it is a pistol for that role.

What the Tec-9 | Red Quartz looks like in Minimal Wear

The skin covers only the upper part of the weapon: the shroud with its round holes and the rail above the receiver. The color is reddish copper, and the facets, like the cleavage face of a crystal, play from light ochre to dark brown. The pattern forms rhombs and polygons.

The frame, grip and magazine are bare gray steel with no pattern, and the lower half of the pistol is not painted at all. In Minimal Wear the coating on the shroud stays even, and the wear is barely noticeable.

What to check before buying

Before paying for a Tec-9 | Red Quartz, it is worth checking:

• Float: across the 0.07 to 0.15 band, the copper crystal facets look equally sharp on every listing.


• Stickers from the previous owner, and any rename on the Tec-9 | Red Quartz.

What the Tec-9 | Red Quartz costs in Minimal Wear

Of all the skin's wears, this is the cheapest. Factory New costs 1.49 times more, Field-Tested 1.31 times more and Well-Worn 1.35 times more.

Among Restricted Tec-9 skins, Red Quartz in this wear is the cheapest: nothing sits below it. The nearest neighbor above is Brother, at 2.6 times more. Bamboozle and Re-Entry come next, and Nuclear Threat costs hundreds of times more than Red Quartz.

Getting the Tec-9 | Red Quartz

No case holds the skin. It comes only in tournament Souvenir packages, among them the EMS One 2014 Souvenir Package. A trade-up into the Tec-9 | Red Quartz takes ten skins of the next rank down, all from one collection.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The skin has no StatTrak version. A Souvenir version exists. It comes from tournament Souvenir packages, and the Souvenir-O-Matic can also turn a copy into one.

Stickers and craft on the Tec-9 | Red Quartz

The steel of the frame and magazine is free of pattern, so stickers lie on a uniform background there. It is better not to cover the shroud with its crystal facets, since the pattern fills the whole upper rail. For CS2 it is convenient to build a craft around the copper shroud.

Who this wear suits

Buying the Tec-9 | Red Quartz in Minimal Wear makes sense when:

• You want the cheapest way into this skin among all its wears.


• You want an even copper shroud without noticeable wear.


• You do not need to choose by float: the narrow 0.07 to 0.15 band makes copies nearly identical.