★ Shadow Daggers | Fade (Minimal Wear)

The ★ Shadow Daggers | Fade (Minimal Wear) is a Covert ★ knife finish built from a chrome base coat airbrushed with transparent, blending paints. Minimal Wear is the lower of only two grades this finish reaches, still sitting close to the top of its narrow float range.

Design

The look comes from a chrome base airbrushed with transparent paints that fade into one another across both blades, with coverage varying from copy to copy. It ships with the flavor line "This isn't just a weapon, it's a conversation piece."

★ Shadow Daggers | Fade (Minimal Wear) Float and Wear

Because the finish is capped between 0.00 and 0.08, Minimal Wear is as worn as a Fade pair ever gets — on a full-range knife this float would already look rough, but here the blades still read close to mint. On the float scale, Minimal Wear spans roughly 0.07–0.08, just a small step down from Factory New rather than a heavily aged grade.

Shadow Daggers | Fade Rarity

Rarity: Covert ★, the rare special ("knife") tier that stands above every regular weapon grade in a case. That tier is scarce on its own, independent of which wear a given pair happens to land on.

Shadow Daggers | Fade Case and Collection

This finish comes from the Shadow Case, its source box in the drop pool. Across the board, the rare-special tier pulls at about 0.26% per case, which is why most copies change hands on the market instead of coming from a fresh unbox.

Shadow Daggers Fade Percentage

"Best pattern" on a Fade comes down to Fade percentage — how much of the purple-pink-yellow spectrum has spread across both blades. A full 100% Fade is the grail and sells at a clear premium over the more typical 90-95% copies; a top-percentage pair can be worth several times an average one. That share is set by the paint seed when the skin is created and stays fixed for good, wear or no wear — there's no "blue gem" angle here, just chasing coverage. Even at Minimal Wear, a high percentage still reads clearly on these near-mint blades.

StatTrak & Souvenir

This knife is also available as a StatTrak™ version, adding a kill counter that sticks with the item permanently through every trade or sale. Souvenir versions were never made for it — knives simply don't appear in Major-tournament souvenir packages, regardless of finish.

Shadow Daggers | Fade Price

Minimal Wear runs a step below Factory New on the Fade's price ladder, making it the more accessible of the finish's two grades while still sitting in grail-tier territory among this knife's finishes as a whole. Fade percentage still moves the needle more than the wear grade does. It's available to buy on Skin.Land with instant delivery and no hidden fees.

FAQ

Is Minimal Wear a big downgrade from Factory New on the Fade?

Not really. Since the finish is capped at a 0.08 float, Minimal Wear still sits well inside near-mint territory — it's a modest step down, not a visibly worn pair. The visual difference is far smaller than on a full-range knife finish.

What is the best Shadow Daggers Fade percentage or seed?

Look for a full 100% Fade — it's the grail pattern and carries a clear premium over the common 90-95% copies, with a low-float 100% able to fetch a large multiple of an average pair. The percentage comes from the paint seed and is fixed for the copy's whole life, so it never changes as the blades wear.

What's the cheapest way to own a Shadow Daggers Fade?

Minimal Wear is the more accessible of the finish's only two grades, since the 0.08 float cap means it still looks close to mint. It won't undercut Factory New by much given how narrow the wear gap is here — the fade percentage on the individual pair swings the price far more than the wear grade does.