★ Ursus Knife | Fade (Minimal Wear)

The ★ Ursus Knife | Fade (Minimal Wear) is a Covert-rarity knife finish showing the same airbrushed purple-pink-yellow fade over a chrome base. With float capped near zero, this is the more worn of only two grades this finish comes in, and the look stays close to Factory New.

Design

Transparent paints airbrushed together over a chrome base coat produce the purple-pink-yellow spectrum on this blade, rather than a fixed graphic. It comes with the line "This isn't just a weapon, it's a conversation piece." The paint seed decides how far that spectrum reaches across the surface, and a full 100% Fade is worth considerably more than a partial 90–95% copy.

★ Ursus Knife | Fade (Minimal Wear) Float and Wear

This finish is capped to a tight 0.00–0.08 float band, so it exists only as Factory New and Minimal Wear, and even the more worn of the two never reaches a heavily used look. Minimal Wear covers the top of that capped range, clipped to the finish's own maximum, so it runs roughly 0.07–0.08.

Ursus Knife | Fade Rarity

Rarity here is Covert ★ — the rare-special classification knives carry, separate from the standard weapon rarity tiers. That status applies at either of this finish's two grades.

Ursus Knife | Fade Case and Collection

This finish comes from the Horizon Case and the Danger Zone Case. The odds of pulling any knife sit at about 0.26% from either source.

Ursus Knife | Fade Percentage

The paint seed is what decides the Fade percentage on this finish — how far the purple-pink-yellow spectrum stretches across the blade — and that's the whole basis for "best pattern" here. A full 100% Fade is the grail, well above the more typical 90–95% copies most buyers see. Since the percentage is fixed for the copy's life, a high-percentage Minimal Wear copy still commands the same premium a Factory New one would.

StatTrak & Souvenir

Alongside the standard knife, a StatTrak version exists that tracks confirmed kills permanently once it starts counting. No Souvenir version has ever existed, since knives are excluded from Major-tournament souvenir packages entirely.

Ursus Knife | Fade Price

Minimal Wear is the more affordable of this finish's two grades, sitting just below Factory New. Fade overall still ranks upper-mid among this knife's finishes, so even this grade is a genuinely pricier pick rather than a budget one — especially with a high Fade percentage. It's available to buy on Skin.Land with instant delivery and no hidden fees.

FAQ

Does Minimal Wear look much different from Factory New here?

Barely — both grades sit within the finish's tight 0.00–0.08 float cap, so the fade colors and chrome base look nearly identical between them. The gap comes down to grade rarity more than any visible change.

What's the best Ursus Knife Fade percentage?

A full 100% Fade is the grail pattern, with the spectrum covering the entire blade, and it carries a clear premium over the more common 90–95% copies. That percentage is fixed by the paint seed and stays the same regardless of which of the two available grades a copy is.

Is Minimal Wear the cheaper way to get a good Fade?

Yes — it's the lower-priced of the finish's two grades while showing essentially the same near-mint look as Factory New. What actually decides value here is the Fade percentage on the specific copy, not which of the two grades it happens to be.