★ Butterfly Knife | Case Hardened (Minimal Wear)

Minimal Wear (MW) is a narrow stretch of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Case Hardened scale: float 0.07 to 0.15, eight hundredths out of 1.00. This is a Covert knife with the ★ mark, and it drops from the Operation Breakout Weapon Case.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Case Hardened looks like in Minimal Wear

Blue, golden, purple and brownish swirls are mixed across the blade. The handle is black, with a gold-cream stripe on each half.

Minimal Wear is light wear: there are scuffs, but few of them on the metal. The float is locked in at drop and never grows later.

What to check before buying

It makes sense to compare the following on the ★ Butterfly Knife | Case Hardened:

• Float: you can buy anything from 0.07 to 0.15, and inside such a short band the listings differ little.


• Listing picture: the layout of the colored patches is judged from the screenshot of that exact copy.


• Name tag: a name tag can go on the knife. There are no stickers.


• StatTrak: the finish has this version, as a separate item.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Case Hardened costs in Minimal Wear

Factory New is dearer than Minimal Wear by a factor of 1.81. Field-Tested is cheaper by 1.24, Well-Worn by 1.35 and Battle-Scarred by 1.26.

Among Covert butterflies in this wear, the finish sits exactly in the middle of a row of 28: 13 are cheaper and 14 are dearer. Autotronic and Lore sit just above it, while Blue Steel, Ultraviolet and Damascus Steel sit below. At the top, Doppler Phase 4 costs about four times as much, Doppler Sapphire eight times and Doppler Ruby almost thirteen times. Safari Mesh and Boreal Forest are at the bottom.

Getting the ★ Butterfly Knife | Case Hardened

The source is the Operation Breakout Weapon Case, and the float of a Minimal Wear copy is set when the case is opened.

A CS2 trade-up of five Covert skins of one type returns a random item with the ★ mark, and this knife is not guaranteed in it. The skins you put in only set the pool of collections, and normal and StatTrak skins cannot be mixed.

Is there a StatTrak version

It does. The StatTrak edition of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Case Hardened exists alongside the normal one.

Who this wear suits

This wear of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Case Hardened is worth buying for three reasons:

• Light wear leaves the colored blade almost intact.


• Inside 0.07 to 0.15 there is no best copy to hunt for, so you can take a listing by its picture.


• In price, this wear lies between Factory New and Field-Tested.