★ Butterfly Knife | Stained (Minimal Wear)

★ Butterfly Knife | Stained in Minimal Wear (MW) is the second step of the finish: 1.6 times cheaper than Factory New (FN) and dearer than the three lower wears. The knife is Covert rank, marked with the ★. In CS2 this is a butterfly knife with light wear, whose float is no longer zero.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Stained looks like in Minimal Wear

The main color of the blade is steel gray, with dark blue rings. Valve's description says the patina was forced on: lemon and mustard were dripped onto the metal. The handles are black, with silvery inserts in the cutouts. The pivot and latch are dark.

In Minimal Wear the steel layer has been touched by wear, but the whole pattern of the finish still reads. The wear is set at drop, so a copy stays as it came out of the case or the trade-up.

What to check before buying

Three parameters are worth checking in a Stained listing:

• Float: the wear gets a band from 0.07 to 0.15, and the value is given in the listing description.


• The state of the edge and the tip of the blade in the screenshot.


• Name tag: an applied name passes to the new owner along with the knife.

Within 0.07 to 0.15, Minimal Wear copies of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Stained look alike.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Stained costs in Minimal Wear

Factory New costs 1.6 times as much. The steps down are small: Field-Tested (FT) is 1.09 times cheaper, Well-Worn (WW) 1.15 times, Battle-Scarred (BS) 1.14 times.

Of the twenty-eight Covert-rank butterfly finishes with a price in this wear, Stained has six cheaper and twenty-one dearer, so it lies in the lower part of the ladder. Just above are Butterfly Knife | Black Laminate, Night and Freehand, and just below are Urban Masked and Bright Water. Cheapest in the ladder are Safari Mesh, Forest DDPAT and Boreal Forest. The top of the ladder belongs to Doppler Phase 4, Doppler Sapphire and Doppler Ruby.

Getting the ★ Butterfly Knife | Stained

Stained comes out of the Operation Breakout Weapon Case, and the game sets the wear. Those who build the knife by trade-up put in five Covert-rank skins of one type, all regular or all StatTrak. They receive an item with the ★ mark from the collections of the skins they put in. The model and finish cannot be chosen in a trade-up, so a particular copy is bought as a ready listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

StatTrak copies of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Stained exist in the game.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear is a reasonable choice for the ★ Butterfly Knife | Stained in these cases:

• you want a finish with the steel still readable, but without paying extra for Factory New;


• the price gap to the lower wears is small, and a tidy edge is worth it;


• a steel-gray blade with black handles fits your loadout.