★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate (Minimal Wear)

This is the ★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate in Minimal Wear (MW), and its band is short: 0.07 to 0.15, or 8% of the finish's scale. It is a Covert butterfly knife, with the ★ mark, and it drops from the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate looks like in Minimal Wear

You can buy this knife at any float from 0.07 to 0.15. The dark gray blade carries a stonewash texture, the handles are black with cutouts, and the light panels set into them are decorated with beige-gray swirls.

This is the nearest step after Factory New: wear is still modest and shows mostly on the tip and the ridges of the handles. Between 0.07 and 0.15 the look does not change, so the eye barely catches a difference between two listings in this wear.

Where the ★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate came from

Operation Riptide began on September 22, 2021, and the case bearing its name is the first source of this finish. The second is the Dreams & Nightmares Case.

Phase and pattern

The artwork is the same on every copy, so there is no particular one to hunt for: the finish has no phases or gems.

What to check before buying

Before taking a ★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate, look at these points:

• float: from 0.07 to 0.15, and near the border with Factory New the knife is cleaner;
• applied name: a name tag is allowed and stays on the butterfly knife after purchase;
• StatTrak: the kill counter makes the knife a separate item.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate costs in Minimal Wear

Factory New costs 1.26 times as much. Field-Tested is cheaper by a factor of 1.12, and Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred by 1.18.

Among twenty-eight Covert butterfly knives in Minimal Wear, Black Laminate lies in the lower half: nine finishes cost less and eighteen cost more. Ultraviolet and Damascus Steel rank above it, while Night, Freehand and Stained are a little below. The most affordable are Safari Mesh, Forest DDPAT and Boreal Forest, and the peak belongs to Doppler Phase 4, Doppler Sapphire and Doppler Ruby.

Getting the ★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate

The butterfly knife drops from the Operation Riptide Case and the Dreams & Nightmares Case, and the wear comes out random.

A craft offers another path: five Covert skins of one type turn into a random rare special item from the collections of the skins put in. This particular butterfly knife cannot be had that way, because chance picks the finish and the model.

Is there a StatTrak version

StatTrak is available for the ★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate.

Who this wear suits

The ★ Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate in Minimal Wear pays off when:

• you want steel without obvious marks, yet Factory New costs 1.26 times as much;
• you need a dark butterfly knife in CS2 for a black and gray loadout, where the light handle panels give the only accent;
• it suits you that the pattern is shared by all copies and the choice comes down to float.